{"id":5570,"date":"2022-12-01T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:47:25","slug":"remembering-jim-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/en-US\/2022\/12\/01\/remembering-jim-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Jim Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m17xjgm7-e12b05571bab5484a521af949ba8f3a0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Remembering Jim Byrne<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-5vckma-6cbc9c564eb8640ac73eb4027c272f53\">\n.flex_column.av-5vckma-6cbc9c564eb8640ac73eb4027c272f53{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-5vckma-6cbc9c564eb8640ac73eb4027c272f53 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lb4uw25v-40ee6a94d97928db988571b6ec3e4b75 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of James (Jim) Byrne, founder and former Chairman\/Director of VA Technology, following a battle with cancer. Those who were fortunate enough to know and work with Jim have lost a mentor and friend.<\/p>\n<p>After beginning his career with Chrysler, in 1975, Jim joined Black &amp; Decker, where he began working with automation and his interest in robotics was sparked.<\/p>\n<p>On returning to England he joined Unimation Eur Ltd, heading up engineering development and manufacture of the Unimate robots. This company was eventually acquired, and Jim became Managing Director of Prab Robots International in 1988. A few years later he took ownership and Versatile Automation Technology Ltd, or VA Technology as we now know it, was formed in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Jim built VA Technology on the cornerstone of transforming investment casting from an art-form to a controllable, technology-based process. Today, the expectation of repeatable, high quality shell production has been changed from occasional to normal, and there is no doubt that Jim\u2019s vision and drive has played a key role in this revolution.<\/p>\n<p>He played an active part in the ICI and EICF, contributing his considerable expertise at numerous conferences and seminars throughout the global investment casting industry, and was proud to be inducted into the ICI\u2019s Hall of Honour in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Jim was passionate about the future of engineering, attracting the new generation to join this industry and stimulating interest in all things innovation. He saw value in developing and adopting the most advanced technologies available both for the benefit of the business, but also to benefit society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>He had time for everyone and was always engaged and interested in the people he met. He brought those personal qualities (not to mention his vast experience in business) to the company.\u00a0 Jim\u2019s wealth of knowledge leaves behind a huge legacy to the investment casting industry, and his spirit of innovation and \u201cCan Do\u201d approach will forever be the foundation of VA Technology.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves behind a loving family and our thoughts and condolences go out to them.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3tvoki-a50729314424e2d93cbec732617f962b\">\n.flex_column.av-3tvoki-a50729314424e2d93cbec732617f962b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-3tvoki-a50729314424e2d93cbec732617f962b av_one_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lb4vp3nc-4fd7b346f3e6037fe05016f7c12c0e64\">\n.avia-image-container.av-lb4vp3nc-4fd7b346f3e6037fe05016f7c12c0e64 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-lb4vp3nc-4fd7b346f3e6037fe05016f7c12c0e64 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-lb4vp3nc-4fd7b346f3e6037fe05016f7c12c0e64 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-4  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5581 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5581 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-1030x690.png\" alt='Jim Byrne founder of VA Technology' title='Jim'  height=\"690\" width=\"1030\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-1030x690.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-1536x1028.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-2048x1371.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-1500x1004.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Jim-705x472.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lb4vquic-3c00e20d6062ca7e07cec20ab8acde5a\">\n.avia-image-container.av-lb4vquic-3c00e20d6062ca7e07cec20ab8acde5a img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-lb4vquic-3c00e20d6062ca7e07cec20ab8acde5a .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-lb4vquic-3c00e20d6062ca7e07cec20ab8acde5a av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5577 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5577 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-scaled.jpg\" alt='Jim Byrne founder of VA Technology' title='IMG_2222'  height=\"1707\" width=\"2560\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.vatech.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_2222-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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