Burlington, Ontario, January 21, 2014 –VAC AERO has recently shipped a horizontal vacuum furnace to the Centre de Metallurgie du Québec (Québec Metallurgy Centre), a research institute affiliated with the Trois-Rivières college in Québec.

The VAH2636 HV-2 furnace will be housed in a new a state-of-the Art facility in Trois-Rivières. The chamber size is 23” X 18” X 36” (WHL) with a metal hot zone designed for operating at temperatures of up to 2400°F. The furnace operating systems is based on VAC AERO’s versatile HC900 interactive hybrid control package with SCADA and complete network integration capabilities and remote monitoring and control.

About the Québec Metallurgy Centre.

Created in 1985, the Québec Metallurgy Centre is a collegiate center of technological transfer affiliated with the Trois-Rivières College. The center’s focus is to support the technological development of Québec-based manufacturing companies in the metallurgical sector. The Québec Metallurgy Centre provides an incomparable knowledge base on metallic and ceramic materials as well as on metallurgical processes.

Québec Metallurgy Centre WEBSITE.