Specialized in fluid mechanics, Schrader Pacific Advanced Valves is a fully integrated company. All of the key functions and departments are thus present on our Pontarlier facility such as: Research & Innovation, Research & Development, Production, Methods, Sales, Purchasing, Quality, Financial, Logistics, After-Sales service etc.
Schrader Pacific Advanced Valves implements considerable resources to develop and manufacture valves for refrigeration systems.
Human resources
Some 500 people including a team of 35 engineers and technicians responsible for :
- Product development
- Development and improvement of production processes
- Project management (working in project mode)
- Quality development
Intangible resources with the following software
- Inventor: for CAD design
- Mechanical: for FEA simulation
- CF Design: for fluid simulation
- Moldflow: for plastic injection simulation
- Matlab Simulink suite: for data analysis and algorithm development
Material resources
We have a laboratory spread over three levels that allows us to carry out the vast majority of our charging and safety valve validations in-house, using the following installations and equipment:
- Climatic and hydrometric chamber
- Salt fog test chamber
- Thermal shock test chamber
- Ozone chamber
- Traction bench
- Elastometer
- Durometer
- Helium leak spectrometer
- ATEQ tools for leak testing
- Proof pressure test bench for determining the burst values
- Nitrogen pressure test bench
- Flow meter