Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc.
Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc. (VPE) is a thermal engineering and manufacturing company providing science-based metallurgical services, including precision brazing, diffusion bonding, hot pressing, heat treating, thin-film coating, complex assemblies, specialty cleaning, and materials testing & analysis. Furthermore, VPE offers extensive machine shop services.
VPE has been providing contract manufacturing services since 1976. As a result, we manufacture components, subassemblies, and complete products for mission-critical aerospace, semiconductor, as well as medical applications. In addition, we specialize in the manufacturing of heat exchangers and cold plates. Furthermore, VPE combines expertise in materials science with extensive manufacturing experience to produce high volumes, maintain quality control, as well as assure on-time delivery.
Our contract manufacturing services range from providing specific process or assembly tasks using customer-supplied parts to supplying production quantities of quality turnkey assemblies. Moreover, by serving as the prime contractor, we control the factors critical to manufacturing success.
Metallurgical expertise for both R&D as well as production
Highly efficient use of R&D as well as prototyping budgets
Problem-solving for product design as well as production issues
Turnkey production from drawings and specifications
Turnkey product design, prototyping, and production
One-off to volume production
Specific process or assembly tasks
Processes, parts, assemblies, as well as complete products
Production-oriented for efficiency, low costs, as well as high quality
High, medium, as well as low-volume production and fabrication
Design and set up of production line with all tooling
Production equipment development
Material and subcontractor sourcing, qualifying, as well as supervision
Well-qualified materials suppliers and subcontractors
Advanced testing and analysis equipment
AS9100, ISO 9001, plus customer-specific QA standards
AS9100 Certified. ITAR Registered.
VPE has extensive in-house capabilities for quality assurance as well as testing and analysis. Furthermore, company philosophy demands that every VPE product and service exceed compliance standards. As a result, VPE has a proud history of meeting and acquiring the quality certification demands of the market.
VPE's extensive in-house capabilities meet many exacting certification requirements specific to applications or customers e.g.:
Aerospace
Nuclear
Defense
Electronics
Manufacturing Services - Project Examples
VPE has been the manufacturer on the following projects e.g.:
Aerojet Rocketdyne: reactive metal thermal processing
Schilling: robotic assemblies for submarines used in the offshore oil industry
NASA: Space Exploration as well as Lander programs
Major aerospace contractor: engine fire sensors
Major medical device corporation: ceramic to metal heater assemblies
Fortune 10 corporation: Homeland Security assemblies
Applied Materials: electrostatic particle accelerator tubes.
Isolate Extraction Systems: Co2 extraction heat exchangers
Equipment & Facilities
VPE provides over 150,000 square feet of design, lab, manufacturing, as well as quality assurance space for your contract manufacturing program.
Vacuum brazing furnaces
Aluminum vacuum brazing furnaces
Hydrogen furnaces
Thin film coating systems
Induction & infrared braze systems
Diffusion bonding furnaces
Hot pressing furnaces
The world's largest vacuum hot press
Machine shop
Quality assurance facility
Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)
Laboratories - cleanroom as well as clean environment
Welding cells
Cleaning lines
Assembly lines
Materials testing & analysis lab
& more!
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