SMP® Grapevine manufactures and distributes a complete range of power train cooling products for the automotive aftermarket, and OE/OES markets.Product lines found in the Grapevine facility include Four Seasons, Hayden, ACI,Maxair and CompressorWorks.
SMP® is the largest aftermarket automotive temperature control parts supplier in the industry and is one of the largest new aftermarket compressor manufacturers in the world. By adhering to lean manufacturing principles SMP® remains ahead of its competitors. The products manufactured in Grapevine under different brands include: remanufactured compressors, new compressors, fan clutches, transmission oil coolers, heat exchangers, window lifts, windshield washer pumps, window lift motors, window regulators, window switches, door lock actuators, and numerous automotive HVAC components including multi-flow condensers, plate fin evaporators, and serpentine evaporators for the OEM and aftermarket industry. In a typical year the Grapevine facility can build over 250,000 units.
Four Seasons is the primary climate control supplier to virtually every retailer and buying group in North America. There isn’t a higher quality A/C compressor available in the market today. Our Four Season division processes and ships over 2,000 emergency orders per day in addition to daily stocking orders. We’ve invested in the latest ERP and Forecasting Tools that have paid dividends in a much more accurate forecast to demand. This, combined with collaborative customer planning, has allowed us to ship at a 96% fill rate during our peak season. The Grapevine facility also manufactures and supplies new A/C compressors and related temperature control products under the CompressorWorks brand.
Hayden’s continuous investment in technology allows us to develop products with the highest quality, durability and coverage. Quality controls for our fan clutch and transmission oil cooler lines include mapping O.E. performance, adhering to the strictest vehicle requirements, and testing each product under normal and extreme driving conditions.
ACI Automotive manufactures windshield washer pumps, and window lift motors for the OE automotive industry. ACI monitors the effectiveness of its quality system through extensive interactive plant metrics that give the ACI team access to all the latest information from its processes ensuring that ACI products will be the highest quality with on-time availability.
Maxair Automotive designs and manufactures accumulators, receiver driers, heater cores, hose assemblies, windshield washer pumps, and window lift motors for the OE automotive industry. Maxair capabilities include design to customer parameters using existing and new tooling / equipment / processes specializing in oven brazed aluminum products using the patented Nocolok method. Other processes include TIG / MIG welding, flame brazing, press operations, machining, assembly, and packaging.
The Grapevine facility is ISO/TS16949 quality system certified and houses the engineering group responsible for design, development, and validation of climate control products. Additionally, the ACI line maintains ISO9001:2000 and ISO14001:2004 registrations for all our manufactured products. Traditional and non-traditional customers from our products in Grapevine include major automotive retailers, warehouse distribution and buying groups, transmission specialists, export, performance retailers, OE and OES.
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A brief video about how PVC compression fittings work. Including connection to basin waste and the standard compression fitting. Also how their tapered rubber seal and slip collar create a water tight seal. For more information visit our website at https://www.plumberparts.co.uk
Just watching England play cricket. It’s at times like this that all I really want to do is tell you how PVC compression fittings work. Let’s have a look.
Here is a length of inch and a quarter PVC pipe. Now I’m going to show you the two different types of compression fitting there is for PVC. Firstly, we have a compression fitting that goes onto the bottom of a metal flange. You often see these go onto the bottom of a wash basin or a trap, and they have a small rubber seal just here. The trap or whatever you’re coating to seals on here, and there’s a small, you can see the thread inside this now, that twists up round, and makes a watertight seal. On the other side of this we have the more traditional type of PVC compression fitting. We have our nut, we have our anti-slip collar here, and then the actual tapered rubber seal just here. Now the pipe sits in here just like that, just like so. So let’s have a look at this, the nut slips on first here. The anti-slip collar then goes on. These can be either blue- or red- coloured. Now the object of this is, as that nut turns round, if that was just going onto the tapered rubber seal that would just pull it up and it would never tighten up properly. Now the tapered rubber seal goes on, and then you push it all together, making sure when you do so that the pipe goes fully home, making sure that your tapered rubber seal is happily down within the fitting. Then bring up your nut. Most as long just tighten up by hand, but you can do them with grips. Be careful when you do, because metal grips on plastic, obviously metal always wins, and it will rip apart. And then you just tighten that up, and that there then creates a watertight PVC seal.
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