As a world leader in vacuum oil quenching of large aerospace components, VAC AERO is preparing for increases in commercial aircraft production that are forecast over the next few years. Despite the fact that production for portions of these programs continues to move offshore, VAC AERO expects to be installing additional vacuum oil quench capacity to support forecast increases in demand in North America. Indeed, some of the new large aircraft programs will require some of the biggest vacuum oil quench furnaces ever constructed by VAC AERO.

Kalisz, Poland (March 28, 2008).

In the last 15 years Poland has seen considerable direct investment by American, Canadian, and Western European aerospace companies. During the pre-1990 Soviet years, Poland was one of the main centers of Soviet Bloc aerospace activity. After the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Polish skilled labor and engineering resources, experienced and competitively priced, were underutilized. Since the entry of several large companies (Sikorsky, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Pratt and Whitney America, EADS, Goodrich, and others) in this region, special processes became one of the bottlenecks of the Polish aerospace market.

VAC AERO's Coatings division recently received six new approvals from Rolls-Royce Canada for thermal spray and inorganic paint coatings. The facility was qualified to the stringent standards of RPS 300, 392 and 427 for plasma spray coatings and RPS 666, 666/1 and 666/4 for inorganic paint coatings. Beginning in February 2008, these coatings will be applied to large compressor casings for industrial turbine engines.

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As a world leader in vacuum oil quenching of large aerospace components, VAC AERO is preparing for increases in commercial aircraft production that are forecast over the next few years. Despite the fact that production for portions of these programs continues to move offshore, VAC AERO expects to be installing additional vacuum oil quench capacity to support forecast increases in demand in North America. Indeed, some of the new large aircraft programs will require some of the biggest vacuum oil quench furnaces ever constructed by VAC AERO.

Message from The President

We have had another successful year at VAC AERO and look forward to sustained growth in the New Year. We have enjoyed strong results in our Heat treating, Coatings and Furnace Manufacturing operations due in large part to the strength of the Aerospace market which is forecast to remain strong for several years thanks to the need to supply new aircraft to both domestic and developing markets.

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VAC AERO Receives Two Cryo-Pump Furnace Orders with Vacuum Levels in the 10-7 torr Range Oakville, Ontario (November 16, 2007) - VAC AERO has recently received two cryogenically pumped furnace orders which feature polished stainless steel chambers, polished stainless hot zone support frames, all metal shield package (stainless steel and molybdenum), water cooled main valves and water cooled optically dense baffles. Together these features make this furnace capable of ultimate and operating vacuum levels below those typically available from diffusion pumped systems.

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VAC AERO Operates three of the Largest Oil Quench Furnaces  OAKVILLE, Ontario (November 21, 2007) - VAC AERO’s vacuum oil quench technique allows manufacturers of aircraft landing gear and structural components to finish machine critical surfaces on these components prior to heat treating thereby reducing final machining costs when the part is in the hardened condition.