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Custom Equipment Manufacturing Capability

Capability in custom equipment isn’t proven by what can be imagined or drawn. It’s proven by what you can engineer, build, ship, and keep running. Repeatedly, at scale, without failure. That’s a different problem entirely. And the only one that matters in manufacturing.

A company that builds and delivers complete systems repeatedly has closed the gap between concept and reality. That gap is where most fail. Crossing it once is a project. Crossing it continuously is a capability.

Press brake forming stainless steel component in VWM Works fabrication shop

At Valley Welding and Machine Works, we’ve manufactured continuously for over eighty years. Every system feeds knowledge back into the next. Tolerances tighten. Processes sharpen. Weak points disappear.

Execution requires thousands of decisions and details that a rendering can’t relay. These are learned through volume. Not study.

Engineering principles refined across countless systems. Design decisions that anticipate manufacturing constraints, installation sequences, service access, and points of failure before the first part is cut.

Proprietary processes. Welding procedures. Surface finishes. Assembly techniques refined through repetition, not theory. Design decisions validated by production feedback, not imitation. Developed because standard methods didn’t exist for the problems we are solving.

Facilities and teams built for volume, not one-offs. Scale that reveals what prototypes hide. Installation and service knowledge earned across decades of commissioning and maintaining systems long after the drawings are filed.

The ability to manufacture OEM equipment at the highest level doesn’t transfer through observation. It exists only inside organizations that have built continuously for decades.

Technician assembling Vi-Pro vibratory conveyor on VWM Works production floor

Vi-Pro vibratory conveyor in production at our facility.

To discuss a system, contact our engineering team or request a quote.