Vacuum Chambers

The centerpiece of a vacuum system is the vacuum chamber.  Alloy Engineering’s vacuum chambers will meet your most demanding quality and engineering requirements, which will in turn allow you to achieve a vacuum solution that is perfectly tailored to your specifications.  Alloy Engineering is able to achieve this by maintaining all aspects of production in-house and under our control.

Here are the pros of Alloy Engineering’s in-house capabilities:

1. Alloy Engineering is able to maintain strict, first-hand quality control of all aspects of production.  Starting with compliance to, and documentation of, incoming raw materials, to conformance to weld procedures and dimensional requirements of the project, and ending with full review of the project upon its completion, before delivery into the hands of our customer.  Alloy Engineering offers a full QA/QC service.  Alloy Engineering QA, or Quality Assurance, offers the peace of mind that Alloy Engineering, during production, has adhered to all processes that prevent defect.  Alloy Engineering QC, or Quality Control, focuses on final project review and defect identification.  Additional information regarding our quality certifications can be found here.
2. Alloy Engineering’s in-house production ensures competitive pricing.  By keeping all aspects of production in-house, we have eliminated steps in the supply chain that would otherwise result in sub-contractor profit margins and internal shipping and handling costs.
3. Alloy Engineering’s in-house production eliminates logistics issues.  Your vacuum chamber project, assuredly, has a strict shipment deadline.  By maintaining in-house production, we have eliminated unnecessary travel and sub-contractor production queue time.  This allows us to get things done quicker.
4. In-house production reduces our management considerations.  By maintaining in-house production, less administrative work is required to complete your project.  Instead of trying to influence sub-contractors’ operations in order to receive components and/or processes of your project sooner, we can adjust our own manufacturing resources to meet your needs.

Below is a list of Alloy Engineering’s in-house tools which make Alloy Engineering the right fit for constructing vacuum chambers.

• In-house forming capabilities include multiple pyramid plate rolls and eight press brakes.  Our press brakes range from 70 ton to 1000 ton.  Alloy Engineering is capable of rolling up to 1” thick plate.  Our maximum dimensional envelope for chamber shells is 74” inside diameter x 10’ length.
• Our in-house welding capabilities are first class.  In addition to a vast array of welding processes, Alloy Engineering also has a laser guided automated welding manipulator which is capable of both MiG and Sub-Arc.  This manipulator is a perfect fit for the girth and seam welds found in vacuum chamber shells.  More information regarding Alloy Engineering’s welding capabilities can be found here.
• Our in-house machining capabilities allow us to keep full control of scheduling and inspection requirements of your vacuum chamber components, as well as the final machining stages of the complete assembly.  Under our roof, we have a Froreip vertical turning lathe (VTL) and a G&L horizontal boring mill (HBM).  If you would like additional information regarding our machining capabilities, please follow this link.
• Alloy Engineering is also able to offer in-house blasting and painting for full carbon steel vacuum chambers, or just the carbon steel exterior components of a stainless steel vacuum chamber.  This in-house service allows for savings in both time and money.  Please visit this webpage for more information.