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Atmosphere Furnaces

VAC AERO’s air circulating and controlled atmosphere furnaces are custom designed and rigorously tested to suit your specific processing requirements. We offer a range of furnace types that include: •  High temperature retort furnaces •  Aluminum melting and heat treating furnaces •  Tempering ovens (pit and box styles) •  Drying ovens •  Gantry furnaces These…

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Integral Oil Quench Vacuum Furnaces

For over 25 years, VAC AERO’s Vacuum Oil Quenching Furnaces have been processing thousands of parts to stringent aerospace standards. Though the use of high pressure gas quenching for hardening certain alloys that were previously oil quenched has been gaining popularity, Vacuum Oil Quench Furnaces have a significant role to play in the heat treating…

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Standard VAH Series Horizontal Front-loading Models

   Model  Width  Height  Length  Standard Load Capacity @ 2400 ºF  VAH 1212 8” (205mm) 9” (230mm) 12” (305mm) 60 lbs (27 kgs)  VAH 1220 8” (205mm) 9” (230mm) 20” (510mm) 60 lbs (27 kgs)  VAH 2024 16” (405mm) 12” (305mm) 24” (610mm) 300 lbs (136 kgs)  VAH 2224 18” (460mm) 14” (355mm) 24” (610mm)…

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Vacuum Gas Quench Furnaces

VAC AERO’s vacuum furnace design innovations are thoroughly tested in our own heat treating facilities before being offered to our customers. That means better quality, reliability and efficiency to maximize uptime and productivity. HORIZONTAL FURNACE SPECIFICATIONS Horizontal front-loading models provide great flexibility for general heat treating and brazing applications (available with external or internal quench…

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Corporate Brochure

ENGLISH BROCHURE Our new corporate brochure describes how VAC AERO has built its reputation as a pioneer vacuum heat treater for aerospace and other high-tech industries since 1959 and how it has grown to become a world-leading designer and manufacturer of vacuum furnace systems and solutions with facilities that span three continents. Download ENGLISH VERSION…

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Corporate Sponsorship

VAC AERO is reaching out to children in need by sponsoring the Audrey Pritchard Breakfast Clubs VAC AERO is reaching out to children in need in our local community by sponsoring the Audrey Pritchard Breakfast Clubs in the Mississauga communities of Forest Ridge and Arbour Mill, run by Pathway Community Programs. The founder of the…

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Specifications – VAV Series Vacuum Furnaces

Vertical vacuum furnaces combine fast cycle times and quenching speeds to provide better uniformity of large production parts with complex geometries and are ideal for processing large circular parts such as rings, stators or engine casings and long parts like shafts or rolls. CLICK HERE  for Standard Furnaces Sizes The standard VAV Series Vertical, Bottom-loading,…

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Specifications – VAH Series Vacuum Furnaces

Compact horizontal vacuum furnace designs provide great flexibility, excellent performance and ease of operation for general heat treating and brazing applications to deliver value to commercial and in-house heat treaters alike. CLICK HERE for Standard Furnace Sizes The standard VAH Series Horizontal, Front-loading, Vacuum Heat Treating and Brazing Furnace can be customized to suit unique…

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Vac Aero opens new Office in Aviation Valley

The Monty, June 13, 2006 Issue Vac Aero, a Canadian based manufacturer of new vacuum furnaces and a good sized commercial heat treater in their own right has just opened a new office in Poland‘s Aviation Valley. The photo below shows the management of the new office along with the President and Vice President of…

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Vac Aero Sells Another Vacuum Furnace to Liburdi

INDUSTRIAL HEATING MAGAZINE, July 31, 2006 VAC AERO’s Oakville (Ontario) furnace manufacturing division has sold a model VAH 2636 HV-2 vacuum furnace to Liburdi Turbine Services (Dundas, Ontario). The furnace includes VAC AERO’s durable graphite-based hot zone design, engineered specifically for demanding brazing applications. As part of the furnace contract, VAC AERO is supplying a…

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