Irrigation agreement for Iveco motors: engine supply agreement with Rainbow Irrigation continues Iveco's North American market growth.

Iveco Motors of North America Inc., a Fiat Powertrain Technologies (FPT) company, has announced an engine supply agreement with Rainbow Irrigation Systems, Fitzgerald, Ga., to power a line of Rainbow's centrifugal irrigation pumps.

"Our customers are very concerned with their applications'

With Over 200 dealers in North, Central and South America, Rainbow distributes between 250 to 300 irrigation pump sets a year. Rainbow also manufactures construction, dewatering and hard hose traveler applications, as well as a line of Deere-powered irrigation pumping units, a line of irrigation power units, Deutz-powered irrigation generator sets from 5 to 25 kW, and a line of standby gen-sets from 10 to 300 kW.

Rainbow, said Jaime and Terry Mann, is a highly vertically integrated manufacturer which includes manufacturing its own line of centrifugal pumps. The company does all its own metal fabrication work, including trailers and tanks at its 175,000 sq.ft. plant in Fitzgerald. The irrigation pump sets are directly driven and can be mounted on a heavy-duty skid or trailer with a variety of control and enclosure options, including a specialized line of sound-attenuated packages.

Currently, many of the company's pump and gen-sets go to agricultural dealers, as well as into rental applications. While pumps sets for irrigation are the company's primary product range, in recent years Rainbow has begun to expand into a variety of industrial and construction markets for all its product ranges.

Rainbow will be installing Iveco's NEF 4NA, NEF 4TC, NEF 4TAA, NEF 6NA and NEF 6TAA in its centrifugal irrigation pump sets, which will be used for agricultural irrigation, turf irrigation and industrial applications. The centrifugal irrigation pumps will also have the option of being clutch-mounted or direct-drive.

The NEF 4TC has a gross power output of 99 hp at 2300 rpm, the NEF 4TAA is rated 126 hp at 2300 rpm and the NEF 4NA produces 80 hp at 2300 rpm.

The NEF 4TC and NEF 4TAA are both turbocharged, four-cylinder, inline diesel engines, with the NEF 4TAA being aftercooled. The NEF 4NA is naturally aspirated, four-cylinder, inline diesel. All of the NEF engines have a mechanical injection system and a displacement of 4.5 L.