About Vacuum Processes, Inc.

MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE SOLUTIONS

VPI is a complete turnkey design, manufacturing, service, engineering, research, and installation entity, which provides custom vacuum and thermal process equipment for various industries. Our mission is to provide our customers with the best possible manufacturing and service solution to improve their equipment and process. The solution may be anything from a minor consultation to a complete manufactured piece of equipment and anything in between. We are instituting this policy one customer at a time.

VPI provides temperature and humidity space simulation chambers. VPI also provides high temperature vacuum and atmosphere furnaces ( to 3000C). CVD, CVI Reactors, and Fluidized Beds, for various PVD and CVD coating applications. Some furnace examples are for Brazing, Remediation, Induction Melting, Pulse Plasma Nitriding, Gas Nitriding, Powder Metal H2 Debinding, Annealing, HIP, MIM, Heat Treating, Degassing , Research, Drying and Curing. These systems have many components including heating systems, weldments, controls, gas recirculation and quenching.

We also specialize in high volume helium leak detection applications, for tests on any hermetically sealed mechanical or electrical components. Examples may be gas cylinders, hybrid circuits, shock absorbers, radiators, heat exchangers, etc. Medical industries test sample and bulk packaging with these units.

We can also provide vacuum chambers, and weldments, of any size or material, basic vacuum pumping stations and central vacuum and gas systems for industrial and hospital applications. High purity orbital welded gas systems are manufactured in our facility or on a customer’s site.

VPI will also rebuild and refurbish existing equipment to provide more productivity out of older machines. This is sometimes a very cost effective way to expand or increase production. We can also offer our own used equipment, which we refurbish for the customer. A complete line of equipment engineering, components and services are available.

Our new R&D facilities have allowed us to run test processes for our customers. The customer knows that VPI is making an extra effort to solve their process problems, not just push an existing product line, which really is not the answer for the most people. VPI has shown again, the customer comes first.

Mission Statement:

To provide coating and surface modification process technology for
aerospace and tooling manufacturers in a timely and professional manner and supply reasonably priced quality engineered process equipment

We offer:

Experience in the field of tool and aerospace coatings utilizing Vapor Deposition (CVD & PVD), Electroplating and manufacturing Process Equipment for coating processes.
Expertise in Repair Process Techniques for aerospace components.
Cumulative experience of over 50 years in coating and repair processes.
Thermal process Equipment Fabrication at our own facility or at the affiliated facilities of Vacuum Processing, Inc in Everett, PA or TWC-Invac in Europe.

Our areas of expertise :

CVD Wear Coatings (Alumina, Titanium – carbide, nitride, diboride etc.)

Process Engineering
Safety and Process Training Classes
Fixturing Design and Procurement

TiC on WC-Co Substrate

Platinum Plating / General Electroplating
Process Engineering for single and dual phase Platinum Aluminide (‘P’ & ‘Q’ salts)
Specification writing for system design
Equipment / Tank Design and Procurement
Safety and Process Training Classes

Fluoride-Ion Cleaning (http://hfc-fic.freeservers.com)

Specification Writing, Safety and Process Classes
Equipment and Fixturing Design, Fabrication & Procurement
HF or CF4 Process Instruction and Setup

Fluoride Ion Depleted Alloy

CVD and “Above the Pack” gas phase aluminizing (http://amc-diffusioncoatings.freeservers.com)
Process Engineering
Specification Writing
Equipment and Fixturing – Design, Fabrication & Procurement
Safety and Process Training Classes

Cathodic Arc / Magnetron Sputtered PVD Coatings

Equipment Supply for Tool Coating and Decorative Applications
Web Coating Equipment

High Temperature CVD Oxidation Resistant Coatings

(Silicon Carbide, Boron Silicon Carbide)
Process Engineering
Safety and Process Training Classes
Fixturing Design, Fabrication and Procurement
SiC CVD Coating

Fume Scrubbers / Acid Treatment Systems (http://fumescrubbers.freeservers.com)

Design / Engineering / Fabrication

Quality Assurance assistance

QAM / Work Instruction Preparation
Tech Plan Preparation

Heat treat / Brazing Furnace Fabrication

Vacuum and Atmospheric High Temperature Furnace Design, Engineering & Fabrication
Braze and Heat Treat Equipment

Partial Listing of areas that we assist and consult:

CVD Tool Coating
Tungsten Carbide Cobalt grade engineering and enhancement.
Fluoride-Ion – HF Gas Cleaning.
Platinum Plating.
Fume Scrubbing
Acid waste treatment from CVD Processing.
High Temperature Oxidation Resistant coatings for composite material protection.
CVD, Pack and “gas phase” aluminizing and siliciding.
Quality Assurance System Setup.
Cathodic Arc Physical Vapor Deposition.
Coating Stripping.
If you need assistance in aerospace coatings and repair or tungsten carbide tooling technology, then a call to discuss your needs with our skilled staff may be extremely beneficial in assessing your needs and determining the manner a solution can be reached.

We provide training classes in most of the above areas particularly focused on:

WC-Co tooling Substrates
Coatings for Cutting Tools
Fluoride – Ion Cleaning
Platinum Plating
Aerospace Diffusion Coatings

In addition if you need experimental plating work done on new salts or new procedures that you would like explored, we have in-house plating systems that can be used for experimentation and evaluation.

Payment Terms: Please note that we accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. Contact us for other available payment terms and options.