VFE wins significant electron beam welding service contract
5 September 2016 /Servicing for electron beam welding equipment
VFE has won a large ReAct service contract for electron beam welding equipment. The contract, for one of the world’s leading engineering companies, is VFE’s first partnering with pro-beam – the leading European specialist in electron beam welding technology.
This is the first contract pro-beam has signed with a UK company for servicing of its electron beam welders, and follows a year of negotiations and reciprocal visits of teams of engineers from both companies to ensure that customers receive the highest level of service.
For the contract VFE will carry out routine maintenance on the customer’s pro-beam equipment, as well as offering a 24 hour telephone technical support and 24/7 emergency response to site. VFE will carry a comprehensive critical spares package to ensure that all repairs are completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
VFE Managing Director Charlie White said: “This contract marks an important milestone in VFE’s relationship with pro-beam. We have been talking to our pro-beam colleagues for a couple of years about the different ways in which we can help them, based on the wealth of experience we have of vacuum furnace operation and performance in the UK. A great deal of excellent work has been done by many colleagues at VFE over that period and I am grateful to everyone who has helped to play a part in getting us to this point. I am delighted to receive this first significant contract and I hope it will be the first of many which we are able to sign with UK pro-beam customers over the months and years to come.”
The pro-beam electron beam systems are known for their exceptional reliability and technical capability which helps clients across the Aerospace, Automotive, R&D and specialist manufacturing sectors deliver substantial improvements in their productivity and quality. As a result of the latest pro-beam developments, clients can now benefit from the advantages of combining electron beam and laser welding in vacuum.