The Monty, June 29, 2006 Issue

VAC AERO Manufacturing Polska (new furnace equipment) recently exhibited at the Surftec Exhibition in Poznan, Poland. At the end of the show, the organizers present an award for the display judged to best achieve the marketing strategy of the company. The winner? VAC AERO. We could make a lot of comments but let's just say it is a rather unique approach, the VAC AERO display actually looks like a vacuum furnace. Hard to miss the marketing strategy there. Congratulations to Marketing Manager Alena Iwanowska (on the left) and her crew.

INDUSTRIAL HEATING MAGAZINE, June 26, 2006

VAC AERO's furnace manufacturing operations in Canada and Poland have recently been awarded several large contracts. Customers in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Russia and Poland have placed new orders valued at more than $10 million. The equipment involved includes vacuum furnaces, controlled atmosphere furnaces and custom-designed systems for certain proprietary processing applications.

Additionally, VAC AERO Kalisz Sp. z o.o. is expanding its heat-treating operations with the addition of a second vacuum furnace. The furnace was designed and built by VAC AERO Manufacturing Polska Sp. z o.o. in Swiebodzin, Poland. So far this year, VAC AERO Manufacturing Polska has booked more than $5 million in new furnace orders and delivered its first vacuum furnace to the North American market. The furnace has a two-bar internal quench design and all-metal hot zone for high vacuum processing applications. Electrical and control systems were integrated at VAC AERO's Canadian manufacturing operations before the furnace was delivered to a customer in Quebec.

INDUSTRIAL HEATING MAGAZINE, June 22, 2006

VAC AERO's furnace manufacturing operations in Canada and Poland have recently been awarded several large contracts. Customers in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Russia and Poland have placed new orders valued at more than $10 million. The equipment involved includes vacuum furnaces, controlled atmosphere furnaces and custom-designed systems for certain proprietary processing applications.

Additionally, VAC AERO Kalisz Sp. z o.o. is expanding its heat-treating operations with the addition of a second vacuum furnace. The furnace was designed and built by VAC AERO Manufacturing Polska Sp. z o.o. in Swiebodzin, Poland. So far this year, VAC AERO Manufacturing Polska has booked more than $5 million in new furnace orders and delivered its first vacuum furnace to the North American market. The furnace has a two-bar internal quench design and all-metal hot zone for high vacuum processing applications. Electrical and control systems were integrated at VAC AERO's Canadian manufacturing operations before the furnace was delivered to a customer in Quebec.

The Monty, May 2006 Issue

This is a story about globalization, a smaller world or the exchange of information technology around the world, call it what you will it's all the same thing at the end of the day.

The photo below shows on the left Scott Rush, VP of Vac Aero, Canada (new vacuum furnaces, vacuum heat treating) and on the right Gopal Mahadevan, Managing Director of Hightemp Furnaces, India (new furnaces, commercial heat treating). What they are looking at is the partially constructed plant of the brand new Vac Aero/Hightemp facility in Bangalore, India. This operation will be turning out new vacuum furnaces for the growing Indian/South Asian heat treating market and is a result of the recent partnership between the two companies in which Vac Aero is sharing vacuum furnace technology with Hightemp Furnaces. As we speak the first new vacuum furnace which is a result of their partnership is currently under construction in Bangalore.

While we at "The Monty" realize that this news item will probably not excite too many North American readers it probably should as a sign of things to come. In this case we're seeing North American vacuum heat treating technology being applied in India to help the growing presence of US companies such as Pratt & Whitney and GE. In our opinion partnerships such as this are a win/win situation for both parties and we're proud that we were able to help bring these two companies together. April 25/06

VAC AERO Press Release, July 30, 2006

VAC AERO has opened a new customer support office in Rzeszow, Poland. Rzeszow is located in the heart of Poland’s Aviation Valley, home to a growing number of international aerospace companies. Through it two Polish facilities, VAC AERO is providing heat treating services and furnace equipment to leading aerospace companies in the region.

VAC AERO’s management team shown at the opening of VAC AERO’s new office in Rzeszow, Poland (l to r): Wiktor Moskwa (VAC AERO Rzeszow), Grzegorz Matula and Piotr Pelian (VAC AERO Manufacturing Polska), Michael Miasek (VP European Operations), Jeff Pritchard and Scott Rush (VAC AERO International) and Tomasz Krazynski (VAC AERO Kalisz).

VAC AERO Press Release

VAC AERO recently completed seven new furnace installations including a Dayton Process Fluorocarbon Cleaning System at a turbine engine overhaul facility in Singapore and two high pressure gas quench vacuum furnaces at separate locations in Korea. All three of these installations were completed with the valuable support of VAC AERO’s sales and technical support representative in Korea, AeroTech. VAC AERO also completed new furnace installations for customers in Manchester, CT, Indianapolis, IN, Warsaw, IN and Kalisz, Poland.

ASM INT’L NEWSLETTER, March 15, 2006

To keep pace with increased sales, VAC AERO's Furnace Manufacturing Division recently expanded into new quarters. The hot zone manufacturing and restoration department moved into larger facilities in an adjacent building. This created additional room in the existing space for two new fabrication bays equipped for construction of new furnaces. As part of this re-organization, longtime Furnace Manufacturing Division employees Bill Potts and Paul Dobson were promoted to Production Manager - Hot Zones and Production Manager - Furnace Manufacturing.