It is VAMEIN DE ESPAÑA, S.A. policy to make the products meet the quality required by customers as well as the requirements called for by standards, specifications and/or applicable codes as far as security, reliability and quality are concerned.

To this end, VAMEIN DE ESPAÑA, S.A. have established a quality system, approved to the quality systems standard UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2015. It has also been evaluated and meets the requirements of Annex III, Module H of the Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Economic Community, as well as the Directive concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres ATEX 2014/34/EU of the European Economic Community.

Also, VAMEIN butterfly valves has several international homologations for used in DRINKING WATER (CRECEP, DVGW-TZW)

At the same time, VAMEIN DE ESPAÑA, S.A. have other approvals and homologations available for specific applications required by customers.

As soon as an order is passed on to manufacturing, there is a rigorous quality control on all the elements that will take place during the manufacturing of the VAMEIN butterfly valve, and the valve will not be considered as acceptable till all the above is met.

The materials chosen for the VAMEIN butterfly valve will be suitable for the working pressures and conditions required and they have been designed with a high safety factor.

The processes we undertake to make sure of the quality of our end product, can be grouped into six headings which are developed later on within this chapter:

• MATERIAL QUALITY CONTROL
• VISUAL AND DIMENSIONAL CONTROL
• EXTERNAL QUALITY VISUAL INSPECTION
• TEST PROCEDURES
• TEST CONTROLS CARRIED OUT BY INSPECTION COMPANIES
• ISSUE OF QUALITY AND TEST CERTIFICATES