Brazing, Annealing and Heat Treating Furnaces for 50 Years.

Today’s manufacturers of precision components for the aerospace, automotive, and medical industry rely on high-vacuum furnaces for processing their materials as it provides one of the cleanest atmospheres possible.

Centorr’s line of refractory metal hot zone high-vacuum furnaces have provided a solution to these industries for the past 50 years. Our brazing, annealing and heat treating furnaces allow for the heat treating and annealing of stainless and superalloy materials, yielding bright and shiny parts after treatment.

Heat treating is typically used to impart specific properties to the base material and can improve the hardness or relax stresses that are inherent in its original manufacturing process. This is critically important for materials in the nuclear industry where oxidation and discoloration of the parts is not acceptable.

In brazing applications, a braze filler metal (or BFM) is placed between two different parts allowing them to fuse together at high temperatures in high-vacuum forming an incredibly tight bond without the need for applied pressure.