QVF offers you an intensive service throughout the whole life duration of your plant. We support you to upgrade existing plants to the newest legal regulations, next to recommendations to optimize processes and to save costs. As a licensed company for the planning and manufacture of pressured equipment and supplier of “capable personnel” in accordance with the German certification body TÜV (MOT), we offer you a full facility check-up upon demand or within the scope of our maintenance contracts.

Operational Safety Regulation
As of September 2002, the Operational Safety Regulation is valid in Germany, which controls the commencement of a variety of European directives and defines due transitional deadlines. For operators of glass facilities, the following data are important:

Special conditions apply for glass facilities:
Supplement 5, Operational Safety Regulation 16 (BertSichV 16) Pressured Devices made of Glass
(1) Repeat inspection is waivered for pressured devices made of glass, with exemption to test autoclaves in accordance with no. 19. If aggressive agents stress the equipment, measurement of wall thickness must be performed by skilled personnel within time durations that are accordingly specified contingent to operational stress conditions.

(2) An inspection on sealing function must be performed by skilled personnel to pressured devices made of glass prior to initial start-up.

For this, see “QVF Facility Check”.

QVF has developed an extensive conception for glass facilities in areas rated EX, which meets the requirements of ATEX and BGR132. This is interesting for existing facilities that especially need refit of non-conform agitators as specified by ATEX.

For this, see “Upgrade of ATEX Agitators”.

Within the scope of your maintenance agreement or as single operational measure

>>> Upgrade of ATEX Agitators

Conform to ATEX employing single-action rotating mechanical seal