VAC AERO Launches 2012 Series on “Vacuum Technology with Dan Herring”.

This is the first in a new series of articles entitled Vacuum Technology. The purpose of this series is to inform, educate and answer questions for a worldwide audience of individuals using vacuum methods and vacuum equipment. The series is intended for captive and commercial heat treaters, engineers, operators, metallurgists, quality control and quality assurance personnel, supervisory staff and anyone else who is interested in the subject of vacuum processing.

OAKVILLE, Ontario, (October 24, 2011) – First established in 2003 in Kalisz, Poland to offer Metallurgical Services to the burgeoning aerospace industry in Poland, VAC AERO has now opened a second facility located in the town of Rzeszow in southeast Poland. VAC AERO’s Polish divisions offer special processing services, including vacuum heat  treating and brazing, vacuum carburizing, air plasma spray (APS) and HVOF protective coatings, as well as corrosion and oxidation resistant paint coatings. This new addition to the VAC AERO Group of Companies will be the sixth vacuum heat treating, brazing and coating facility worldwide.

VAC AERO launches a Metallography column in the Redesigned issue of the What’s HOT! Newsletter!

The new column, written by Metallography expert George Vander Voort will feature NEW or previously published articles from INDUSTRIAL HEATING magazine. The monthly articles will offer helpful Metallography applications, tips and techniques to commercial and captive heat treaters alike. George Vander Voort has a background in physical, process and mechanical metallurgy and has been performing metallographic studies for 43 years. George has consented to write articles on Metallography for VAC AERO since many of our clients will find this material quite useful in their daily operations. However, George’s willingness to provide this service to VAC AERO readers does not imply his specific endorsement of the company or its furnaces, but rather his desire to help the metal treating community to understand Metallography better. Read Entire Biography

OAKVILLE, Ontario, (January 8, 2010) – VAC AERO’s Boucherville, Quebec, Canada-based Coatings division recently received two new approvals for coatings and chemical processing. The facility was qualified to the stringent SAE Aerospace Standard AS70003 for Coatings and for Chemical Processing. These two new approvals have now been added to the many other heat treating and […]