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Working knowledge,
straight from VAF.

Bring the team your testing, installation, or product-engineering question. These are the subjects VAF works through with utilities and crews every day.

01 / Testing

Why we drop-test at −58°F

A fall-arrest loop is only as good as its worst day. Extreme-condition testing helps engineers and crews understand performance beyond ordinary conditions.

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02 / Field application

Steps in a backpack: reaching poles with no road

Compact climbing hardware can give utilities a practical alternative to carrying ladders into remote steel-pole locations.

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03 / Product engineering

The next generation of utility anchors

Bearing surface, corrosion resistance, and installation realities all shape a better anchor system.

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