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News Release from: Edwards
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 September 2002
Milestone for rotary vane vacuum pump
BOC Edwards is celebrating the sale of its 100,000th RV Series rotary vane vacuum pump, with a commemorative polo shirt for every member of the production staff.
BOC Edwards is celebrating the sale of its 100,000th RV Series rotary vane vacuum pump, with a commemorative polo shirt for every member of the production staff Workers at the company's Shoreham, West Sussex, facility who are involved in the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of the RV pump received a BOC Edwards polo shirt designed to mark the occasion
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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When it was launched in 1994, the RV pump was hailed as a radical new addition to the rotary pump family.
Small, quiet and economical, RV pumps are now used all over the world in specialist laboratory applications such as mass spectrometers and scanning electron microscopes.
TV manufacturers have bought thousands over the years, for use in making TV tubes.
The RV pump was a very innovative design at the time it was launched.
It has proved its worth over the years and the fact that it is still as popular today, as it ever was, is a significant credit to the entire RV team past and present.
Many of the original RV prototype pumps are still working today testimony to the durability of the pumps.
Peter Meares, Product Manager for the RV range describes the pumps as being the most reliable and robust in the industry: "One of the original prototypes came back for service just the other day.
With regular servicing I see no reason why the RV pump cannot last for many more years".
BOC Edwards' manufacturing facilities at Shoreham have benefited from regular investment and continuous improvement.
For example half a million pounds was recently spent on new production test equipment.
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