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BOC Edwards opens UK pump remanufacturing site
BOC Edwards has opened a new European pump remanufacturing facility at Crawley, UK.
BOC Edwards has opened a new European pump remanufacturing facility at Crawley, UK. The GBP1.2mn facility includes decontamination facilities, two flow-lines, a clean room and an award winning wastewater-recycling plant.
Remanufacturing involves decontamination, dismantling, cleaning, checking, replacing worn parts, reassembling and finally testing before the pump is returned to the customer or held in stock as a service replacement. Crawley is now BOC's European centre of excellence for all semiconductor and scientific pumps.
Although vacuum pumps will typically run for three to five years without a factory service, some processes involving corrosive gases (typical in semiconductor manufacture) or large amounts of dust require more frequent maintenance such as that undertaken at the new Crawley facility. The new site employs 120 people and operates seven days a week.
