VECTOR HPGQ – High-Pressure Gas Quenching Vacuum Furnace

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VECTOR HPGQ is a high-vacuum, single-chamber furnace engineered for precision heat-treatment applications requiring controlled, uniform and distortion-reduced quenching. The system integrates a high-pressure gas-quench module (typically 10–25 bar) using nitrogen, argon or helium, enabling fast and uniform cooling for aerospace steels, tool steels and other high-alloy components. The furnace offers a graphite or all-metal hot zone, multi-zone temperature control, convection heating enhancement and options for low-pressure carburizing and nitriding. It is designed for full compliance with demanding industrial and aerospace heat-treatment specifications and provides clean, oxidation-free vacuum processing with high repeatability from batch to batch.

  • • High-pressure gas quenching, typically 10–25 bar
  • • Cooling gases: nitrogen, argon, helium
  • • High-vacuum capability in the 10⁻⁵–10⁻⁶ mbar range
  • • Graphite or all-metal hot-zone construction
  • • Multi-zone temperature control with high uniformity
  • • Convection-heating enhancement for low-temperature processes
  • • Optional low-pressure carburizing (LPC) and nitriding (LPN) modules
  • • PLC/IPC computerized control with recipe management
  • • Advanced data logging, alarms and diagnostics
  • • Designed to meet AMS 2750 requirements
  • • Excellent distortion control thanks to symmetric high-pressure gas quenching
  • • Faster quench cycles and increased productivity
  • • Clean, oxidation-free processing with high surface quality
  • • Lower operating costs compared to oil quenching systems
  • • High reproducibility and metallurgical consistency
  • • Environmentally friendly: no quench oils or associated contamination
  • • Suitable for both high-volume production and critical aerospace work
  • • Aerospace components (gears, shafts, structural parts)
  • • High-speed and tool steels
  • • Precision dies and moulds
  • • Automotive transmission and injection components
  • • Energy and nuclear-sector parts
  • • Processes such as hardening, tempering, low-pressure carburizing, solution heat-treating and brazing

Designed for compliance with industrial vacuum heat-treatment standards and AMS 2750; suitable for use in NADCAP heat-treating environments where required.

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