ASC said it has awarded Australian maritime manufacturer VEEM a six-year, $65 million contract to continue manufacturing and supplying critical components for Australia’s Collins Class submarines. VEEM has been supplying ball valves and actuators, manufacturing and supplying bodies and connectors for ball valves, and manufacturing a range of other non-ferrous castings for ASC – including strainer housings, mufflers, and main ballast tank valves – since 1992.
Based in Western Australia, VEEM is the licenced manufacturer and service agent of defence 55 and 44 series valves for Flowserve Flow Control (UK) Ltd, the original equipment manufacturer of the ball valves.
ASC Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Stuart Whiley welcomed the announcement. “The six Collins Class submarines are among the most complex and sophisticated defence platforms in operation today, and demand precision and reliability,” Stuart said. “VEEM has been a key partner to ASC since 1992, supporting our mission to deliver a safe, high-performance and potent capability to the Royal Australian Navy. More broadly, ASC is proud to work with Australian businesses, supporting jobs and building a sovereign industrial capability that is critical to the ongoing and future defence of our nation. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with VEEM over the years ahead.”
VEEM Managing Director Mark Miocevich also welcomed the announcement. “It is important to recognise the enormous amount of effort that the employees of ASC and VEEM contribute every day in negotiating and executing such a critical and complex in-country manufacturing and service program,” Miocevich said. “It is this type of successful collaboration that will underpin the success of the upcoming AUKUS program.”
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There is no explanation from ASC as to how this VEEM contract will relate to the long expected Collins LOTE.