Heat Treatment Furnaces
VECTOR HV – Single-Chamber High Vacuum Furnace
High-vacuum single-chamber furnace with gas cooling for advanced aerospace, energy, nuclear and high-performance heat-treatment applications.
Manufactured bySECO/WARWICK
10⁻⁸ mbarHigh vacuum
1450°COperating temperature
±6°CTemperature uniformity
15 barCooling gas pressure
Overview
High vacuum for demanding work
VECTOR HV is a horizontally or vertically oriented single-chamber high-vacuum furnace designed for the most demanding heat-treatment applications. It features a graphite or metal hot zone and achieves vacuum levels as low as 10⁻⁸ mbar. The furnace provides uniform 360° radiation heating and supports a wide range of processes including brazing, annealing, solution heat treating, aging, quenching, diffusion bonding, sintering, tempering and outgassing. It offers high process cleanness, consistent workload quality and efficient batch processing with low power and gas consumption. Cooling gases include nitrogen, argon and helium up to 15 bar. VECTOR HV is widely used across industries such as aerospace, energy, nuclear, electronics, automotive and metallurgy.
Applications
Where VECTOR HV is used
Energy & nuclear materials
Heat-exchangers
Automotive and electronic metallurgy
Tool steels, stainless steels, superalloys, titanium alloys
Brazing, annealing, normalizing, solution HT, aging, quenching, diffusion bonding, sintering, tempering, outgassing
Features
Vacuum, heating and control
- High-vacuum processing down to 10⁻⁸ mbar
- Operational temperature up to 1450°C (2640°F)
- Temperature uniformity ±6°C (±10°F)
- Uniform 360° radiation heating
- Partial-pressure control
- Forced convection cooling
- Cooling gases: N₂, Ar, He up to 15 bar
- PLC + IPC computerized control system
- Remote monitoring and control
- NADCAP & AMS-specification readiness
- Global industrial standard compatibility
Benefits
Clean parts, repeatable results
Wide process capability for high-performance materials
High surface quality and protection of treated parts
Repeatable, guaranteed metallurgical results
Low energy and process-gas consumption
Environmentally friendly, low emissions
Predictive-maintenance support
Compact, modular design configurable to plant layout
Fast installation and commissioning
Customizable system configuration
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