Get More Value with a Standard or Custom Vacuum Furnace from AVS

The conventional benefits associated with a vacuum furnace include uniform heating & low part contamination. However, when you use an AVS vacuum furnace, you can expect several benefits over and above the conventional ones.

For instance, our vacuum furnaces allow a myriad of high-temperature process combinations up to 3000°C, high vacuum to 10^-6Torr, partial pressure gas atmospheres in the millitorr or Torr ranges, and positive pressures up to 1 atmosphere (14.7 psig).

AVS is a vacuum and pressure furnace manufacturer with a global reputation& reach. When you approach us for standard or custom furnace requirements, we draw from our 45 years of rich experience in furnace design, engineering, ASME certified welding, controls engineering, and new process comercialization to come up with ingenious solutions.

Here’s where this excellence stems from:

• We boast of in-house capabilities to fabricate graphite hot zones using soft felt or rigid g-board insulation.
• AVS can fabricate metal / metal - ceramic hot zones using stainless steel, Nichrome, Inconel, Molybdenum or Tungsten.
• We strictly conform to ASME codes and other industry directives. Vacuum chambers are manufactured by certified AVS welders inour vertically integrated facility.
• Our impeccable product quality enables us to offer you the only standard 5-year chamber warranty in the industry.

At AVS we stand committed to the safety and efficiency of your process. Partner with us to see how our vacuum furnace can transform the way you carry out processes such as sintering, heat treatment, MIM debind or CVD. You might also like to know that AVS offers a full suite of aftermarket and field services worldwide for both AVS and competitive systems.

For more, please visit our website www.avsinc.com or call +1.978.391.5104

A Decidedly Superior Vacuum Furnace Range from AVS

Heat treating, brazing and sintering processes with zero contamination requirements stand to highly benefit from AVS vacuum furnace offerings. Our furnaces are intelligently engineered to satisfy the stringent temperature and vacuum requirements of our customers. With these vacuum furnace systems, you can achieve a multitude of high temperature combinations up to the range of 3000 degrees centigrade. Additionally, our furnaces designed for high vacuum application to 10-6torr, partial pressure gas atmospheres in the millitorr or torr ranges, and positive pressures up to 1bar.

Having registered a proactive presence in the pressure and vacuum furnace industry for over 45 years, we boast of numerousin-house capabilities that enable us to fabricate graphite hot zones using soft felt or rigid G-board insulation. We also offer non-particulate metal hot zones including stainless steel, nichrome, inconel, molybdenum or tungsten, if so needed.

To ensure quality manufacturing standards that meet or exceed industry requirements, AVS adheres to ASME Code VIII codes in design and fabrication; we are only firm offering a standard 5 year chamber warranty in the industry. Additionally, we give you the assurance of employing only certified AVS welders on your vacuum furnace project. To date, we have fabricated furnaces from mild steel, 304 &316 stainless steels.

While a regular AVS vacuum furnace chamber reports a standard leak rate of 5 microns or less per hour, this figure can be brought down by our engineers to meet your exacting requirements. We can easily combine various condensing, tempering and burn-off systems based on your individual process needs. To understand how AVS can be your trusted partner, please visit www.avsinc.com and we would be glad to talk with you.

AVS Inc.: The Industry Leader in High Temperature Furnace Manufacturing

At AVS, Inc. we are constantly tuned in to the emerging technologies that necessitate newer and smarter furnace parameters. Our high temperature furnace equipment is suited for the most demanding applications. AVS has manufactured custom furnaces for operations such as production of ceramics, purification of graphite and melting quartz.

Our furnaces care capable of providing consistent and precisely controllable temperatures up to 3000°C, vacuum levels to 10-6 torr, gas pressures to 3000 psig (200 bar), hydraulic hot pressing forces greater than 1200 tons, and critical gas atmospheric control. Besides, we can also integrate other crucial features such as differential pressure control, partial pressure sweep gas, CVD, and hydrogen burn-off for high temperature processes with greater efficiency.

We can entirely custom build hot zones for the most complex high temperature furnace applications. A case in point would be our furnaces that have been used for processing specialty materials such as carbides and nitrides. Besides, our furnaces are widely used today for creating silicon carbide, boron carbide and silicon nitride components for industrial, aerospace and military use. AVS custom builds furnaces with both, graphite heater elements or refractory metal hot zones.

Indeed, these are just a few of the attributes that have made us the most respectable name in the high temperature furnace manufacturing industry today. With over four decades of experience in cutting-edge furnace technology, AVS, Inc. is your partner in perfection. For more details about our capabilities and services, please visit www.avsinc.com.

Your Definitive Source for Furnaces and Industrial Autoclave

For over four decades, AVS, Inc. has been manufacturing fully compliant and certified vacuum furnaces and pressure furnaces to customers across the globe. With cutting-edge expertise in furnace design, engineering, ASME certified welding, controls engineering, and integration of fully customized furnace systems, we have been able to keep pace with the evolving requirements of different industry verticals. The AVS blog is an extension of our efforts to keep existing and potential clientele updated about our latest product information, tips and events.

AVS industrial autoclave range is extensively used in industries such as composites manufacturing and metal heat treating. We are fully certified for ASME Section VIII, Division 1, enabling us to weld our own pressure vessels under the most stringent parameters. AVS is almost certainly the only industry player that offers a standard 5 year chamber warranty, and this is a clear reflection of the confidence we have in our products.

When it comes to the safety of an industrial autoclave, our team leaves absolutely nothing to chance. A case in point would be the AVS automatic hydraulic locking rings that securely seal the chamber door for safe, reliable operation under pressure. We can meet your exacting specifications pertaining to convective temperature, product heat and cool at your prescribed rates, vacuum controls, and other criteria.

We encourage you to visit www.avsinc.com to learn more about how our industrial autoclave solutions can complement your business. Let us know about your requirements and an AVS representative will expeditiously be in touch.

AVS, Custom Furnace Manufacturer

To remain the premier provider of custom furnaces in the industry AVS applies more than 40 years of experience as a furnace manufacturer. Hundreds of AVS furnaces sold worldwide include all types of vacuum furnaces, sintering furnaces, HIP furnaces and other high temperature furnaces. Expanded functionality also enables the fabrication of debinding furnaces, hot press furnaces and industrial autoclaves. The mastery of more complex capabilities enables AVS to design, engineer and manufacture of furnaces requiring the most sophisticated of process and furnace controls, such as those necessary for CVD furnaces or MIM furnaces.

AVS Sinter HIPs have been tailored for the specific requirements of tungsten carbide sintering, combining unique capabilities for paraffin or binder removal, pre-sintering and hot isostatic press densification into a single piece of equipment for production of tungsten carbide hard metal products. AVS also provides custom furnaces enabling tungsten carbide manufacturers to recycle tungsten carbide using the zinc reclaim process. AVS zinc reclaim furnaces have the capacity to recover batches of 600# or 1200# of tungsten carbide in a single furnace run. Today these AVS specialty furnaces dominate the tungsten carbide sintering furnace market.

In 2006, AVS acquired exclusive ownership of the Hetherington line of bell style furnaces. These vertical furnaces feature all-metal hot zones with stationary hearths, high vacuum and wet or dry hydrogen capabilities, making them ideal for semiconductor or medical products. Current owners of Hetherington furnaces can get replacement Hetherington components, or have their equipment serviced by AVS. AVS is also the only authorized manufacturer of new Hetherington bell style furnaces.

In addition to designing and building furnaces, AVS offers unique aftermarket and field services, such as furnace control upgrades, furnace retro-fits, refurbishment and other furnace upgrades. AVS also maintains toll furnaces on site to help our customers prove-out or optimize their processes.

New AVS Website

The new AVS website has been launched on January 20, 2012! Check us out at http://avsinc.com/.

AVS to attend ICONSAT 2012 exhibition in India

AVS will attend the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology from January 20 to 23 in Hyderabad, India. The conference is intended to promote scientific exchange between experts in India and abroad in the area of nanoscience and technology. http://www.iconsat2012.com/

AVS to attend ACerS ICACC 2012

AVS will exhibit at the 36th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites on January 24 and 25, 2012 in Daytona Beach, Florida. This conference showcases cutting-edge research and product developments in advanced ceramics, armor ceramics, solid oxide fuel cells, ceramic coatings, bioceramics and more. Be sure to visit AVS at booth 210. http://ceramics.org/meetings/36th-international-conference-and-expo-on-advanced-ceramics-and-composites

AVS Toll Furnaces temporarily unavailable

AVS is creating a dedicated room for our toll furnace equipment. This separate area will isolate the toll furnaces from the main production floor and provide a well-lit, isolated work space for customers to load and unload their products. The three toll furnaces will be powered down and relocated during the next several weeks. AVS expects the furnaces will be again available in February.