Seco-Warwick Corp., Meadville, Pa., has been awarded ASME pressure vessel certification, earning both an “R” and “U” stamp, enabling the facility to produce vacuum furnace shells and provide a wide variety of pressure vessel manufacturing services. Scopes offered by the ASME BPVC Certification Program vary, and include but are not limited to: power boilers, heating boilers, pressure vessels, fiber-reinforced plastic vessels, transport tanks and valves. The Meadville manufacturing plant, an ISO 9001 certified facility since 1994, is a fully equipped 110,000 ft2 facility.
According to Andrew Paris, COO, “ASME certification is a confirmation of the quality and capability of our team here in Meadville. We have some of the most talented fabricators and welders in the industry and this certification gives us the opportunity to provide our customers more workmanship that showcases that talent.”
The ASME BPVC Certification Program conforms to the rules governing the design, fabrication, assembly, and inspection of boiler and pressure vessel components during construction. In 1916, shortly after the first publication of the “Rules for the Construction of Stationary Boilers and for Allowable Working Pressures” (known today as the ASME BPVC), ASME began offering certification to companies in the pressure equipment industry to certify their quality control systems comply.
Products manufactured by ASME BPVC Certificate Holders are certified and stamped with the Certification Mark in accordance with the applicable ASME BPVC Section. Today there are more than 6,500 Certificate Holders in the ASME BPVC Certification Program.
