Ontario Aerospace Council Newsletter – Summer 2002

Oakville, ON – Despite recent declines in capital equipment purchases, Vac Aero International has been awarded several new vacuum furnace contracts. ACRO Aerospace of Richmond, BC, an aero – engine overhaul facility, has ordered a furnace for delivery in the third quarter of 2002. Liburdi Turbine Services, headquartered in Dundas, has purchased a furnace for its component repair facility in North Carolina.

Vac Aero recently completed a furnace installation in Batam, Indonesia, and will be installing equipment in a new aerospace facility in Madras, India later this year.

In other news, Vac Aero recently acquired a fourth production facility near its Oakville headquarters. The new building will house the company’s Furnace Manufacturing Division. The space previously occupied by that division will be used for an expansion of Vac Aero’s heat treating operations. The company is installing a new heat treating facility for water quenching and ageing of large titanium components. Earlier this year, the company also expanded its Turbine Component Overhaul Division.