T-M Vacuum Products announces that it has begun delivery of Vacuum Furnaces designed constructed specifically for the purpose of purifying Superconducting Accelerator Cavities. Superconducting accelerator cavities are fabricated out of ultra pure niobium and are used to accelerate charged particles to high speeds in nuclear accelerators.  While they operate at near absolute zero temperatures prior to operation they must be purified at very high temperatures under ultra high vacuum to remove impurities and outgas entrapped hydrogen. To meet this purification requirement T-M Vacuum has developed a series of vacuum furnaces.  The furnaces utilize electro polished stainless steel chambers to eliminate any contamination coming from the vacuum furnace surface.  The hot zone insulation is of all metal construction and is treated to remove any surface contaminates that may have been introduced during fabrication. The internal heating elements can be configured to attain temperatures as high as 2000C if required, however typically

March 1, 2007. T-M Vacuum Products has announced today that the second of two advanced high purity, high temperature vacuum furnaces successfully completed exhaustive customer trials at their facility.  This unit and it’s twin will be used for the processing of Ultra High Purity (UHP) materials for the electronics industry. In order to achieve the customers high standards for process purity T-M Vacuum engineered enhancements into their standard Performer Series vacuum furnace.  Starting with the all stainless steel chamber which is standard they increased the high vacuum pumping speeds by a factor of three to attain true high vacuum levels though out the critical initial portion of the process cycle.  A gas purification system was used to insure that all process gases used subsequently had a contamination level measured at the parts per billion level (ppb).  The high temperature hot zone (1800C) was an all metal fabrication to reduce any particulate

March 15, 2007. TM Vacuum has announced today that they have shipped the first of a multiple vacuum furnace system order to a major manufacturer of Metal Injection Moulded products in South East Asia.  The system will be used in the sintering of precision metal parts formed by injection moulding in a hydrogen atmosphere.  These parts will be used in the fabrication of industrial , automotive and consumer products. The delivery of these multiple units will continue into the third quarter of calendar year 2007.  The systems were selected for their  precision control of temperature across the heated area.  Temperatures deviations of as little as +/- 3C can be attained through out a 16 cu ft hot zone.  The systems are also capable of debinding prior to sintering if required.  The customer has selected TM Vacuums controlled cooling option for these systems to enable control of grain size formation during