QUALITY ASSURANCE

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 meeting the UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2000 standard. It also meets the requirements of Annex III, Module H of the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/CE of the European Economic Community.

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 VISUAL INSPECTION ON THE EXTERNAL QUALITY OF THE VALVE TEST PROCEDURES TEST CONTROLS BY INSPECTION COMPANIES ISSUE OF QUALITY AND TEST CERTIFICATES