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Content about Solar Atmospheres - Page 2
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres Southeast receives Nadcap 24-month merit status
- Oct 5, 2021
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres has announced that its Greenville, S.C., facility has been awarded Nadcap 24-month merit status for heat treating, brazing, and carburizing.
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania expands with connector building
- Mar 23, 2021
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA has taken occupancy of a new, 15,000-sq.-ft. connector building at its headquarters in Hermitage, Pa. It joins the company’s existing 80,000-sq.-ft. vacuum furnace workspace to its current 10,000-sq.-ft. Nadcap laboratory, testing building, and vacuum oil quenching...
- From The Fabricator
Director of sales joins Solar Atmospheres of California
- Mar 11, 2021
- Shop Management
- News Release
Vacuum heat-treating services provider Solar Atmospheres of California, Fontana, Calif., has hired Frank Trujillo as director of sales. Trujillo has more than 30 years of experience in the metals industry, bringing a wealth of knowledge from the aerospace, medical, power generation, and commercial...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres' South Carolina facility awarded GE Aviation approval
- Jan 25, 2021
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres’ Greenville, S.C., facility has announced it has been awarded GE Aviation approval. All the company’s facilities now are an option for customers with GE Aviation requirements for vacuum heat treating and brazing services. The company provides AS9100 and Nadcap quality...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA recognized by Northrop Grumman
- Dec 21, 2020
- Shop Management
- News Release
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems has recognized Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA), a vacuum heat-treating services provider in Hermitage, Pa., as a top-performing supplier in 2020 with the Outstanding Customer Service Award. Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is a provider of military and DoD...
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Solar Atmospheres of Western PA achieves Nadcap accreditation for lab
- Dec 14, 2020
- Testing and Measuring
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, Pa., has achieved Nadcap AC7101/4 accreditation for its captive metallography laboratory and has become an approved Boeing Process Source (D1-4426). The accreditation allows the company to test for microhardness, surface contamination, intergranular...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of California adds large furnace
- Dec 3, 2020
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA) has added large-furnace capacity to its inventory of vacuum equipment in Fontana, Calif. The furnace is designed to process a variety of materials that require optimum performance during controlled heating, controlled cooling, vacuum processing, positive...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres named as preferred aerospace supplier
- Sep 23, 2020
- Testing and Measuring
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA has achieved preferred status for heat treating, hardness testing, and nondestructive liquid penetrant testing following an on-site Boeing Supplier Assessment in August 2020. The company added a metallurgy lab since Boeing’s last visit and will be seeking D1-4426...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres adds sixth all-metal hot zone furnace
- Sep 10, 2020
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres has installed an all-metal hot zone vacuum furnace at its Clearview Road facility in Souderton, Pa. This is the company’s sixth all-metal hot zone furnace installation and the fourth for its climate-controlled room. The Mentor model, built by sister company Solar Mfg., has a...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres expands to accommodate vacuum oil quenching
- Aug 4, 2020
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA has announced plans for a vacuum oil quenching line to be installed and fully operational by the end of 2020 at its Hermitage, Pa., facility. It includes a hardening furnace, tempers, washer, and charge car. To make room for the new line, the company continues...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres installs vacuum gas nitriding furnace
- May 12, 2020
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., has installed a new vacuum gas nitriding furnace built by sister company Solar Manufacturing. The front-loading furnace features automated controls that meet AMS2759/10 and AMS2759/6 standards. The control system is suitable for single-stage and two-stage...
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Solar Atmospheres of Western PA appoints quality manager
- Apr 22, 2020
- Shop Management
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA), Hermitage, Pa., has hired Melissa Gruszka as quality manager. She has more than 20 years of experience in all levels of manufacturing in the aerospace, automotive, and the Navy nuclear sectors. She has led various technical teams to ensure process compliance...
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Solar Atmospheres of Western PA adds microscope for metallographic testing
- Mar 11, 2020
- Testing and Measuring
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA), Hermitage, Pa., now offers in-house metallographic testing with the recent purchase of a Zeiss AxioVert A1 inverted materials microscope, an accompanying Axiocam digital camera, and Zen Core Materials Analysis software package. The microscope allows for...
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Solar Atmospheres commissions scanning electron microscope
- Feb 25, 2020
- Testing and Measuring
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres has purchased and commissioned a Hitachi FlexSEM1000 II scanning electron microscope. According to the company, the device will allow it to meet strict customer requirements for low-level contamination from carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen after heat treating. The microscope also will...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA receives Gulfstream approval
- Jan 13, 2020
- Metals/Materials
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, Pa., has announced its Gulfstream approval for material process specifications GAMPS 5101 and 5102. Specification GAMPS 5101 relates to the heat treatment of low-alloy steels, and GAMPS 5102 is associated with the annealing and precipitation...
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