Unrivalled testing company
FOR nearly 200 years, Bureau Veritas has been building on its reputation as the unrivalled global testing, inspection and certification company.
Today, the company operates in 140 countries, and has more than 1500 laboratories and offices, employing more than 75,000 experienced professionals.
Bureau Veritas continues to provide testing, inspection and certification services for a diverse range of industry clients from international mining, oil and gas clients to the clients in the construction and manufacturing industries, and everything in between.
Bureau Veritas has been servicing Tomago Aluminium in NSW for 25 years, and has provided the mine with statutory inspections of all highly specialised cranes such as pot tending assemblies, furnace tending assemblies and casthouse furnace tending assemblies, as well as statutory inspections of all other overhead cranes (single girder, twin girder and slewing jib), and all highly specialised lifting jigs.
It also provides Tomago with routine non-destructive testing of major operational equipment and vibration analysis of site-critical equipment.
The Tomago team is spearheaded by Ben Robinson and Dion Jeffries, both experienced technicians with sound knowledge of Tomago’s systems, processes and equipment, as well as a good working relationship with the Tomago staff.
They are fully involved with each inspection each step of the way – from the planning stage right through to the final report.
General manager of industry east region, Michael Hass said there had been some good wins at Tomago that reaffirmed the importance of the work the company carries out.
“Our team identified a cracked tie rod in the hook assembly on a CHFTA using ultrasonics,” he said.
“It resulted in the hook assembly being changed out and preventing something potentially catastrophic from happening should the tie fail in service.
“They also found a suspected turning fault in a DC motor in the paste plant using vibration analysis.”
The company’s onsite achievements have been formally recognised at the Tomago Aluminium Supplier Awards, with Bureau Veritas taking out the Tier 3 Onsite Services Supplier of the Year in 2016 and 2017, and in 2018 wining the Environment Health and Safety award.
Bureau Veritas has proven itself an indispensable part of the team at Tomago for a quarter of a century, and is looking forward to continual improvement through the use of new technology to aid Tomago’s operations into the future.