A partnership built on trust and quality has brought JDI into another project for a new supplier in the Greenville market. The representative, a manufacturing engineer, trusts JDI to perform their mechanical and millwright contracting for their vacuum furnace system.
Vac Aero International Inc., a Canadian owned global leader in vacuum heat treating and advanced thermal processing solutions, is further establishing its operations in South Carolina. To help Vac Aero setup the new shop-in-shop facility within Meyer Tool Inc.’s Greenville location, they contract JDI Industrial Services to install the equipment.
The team expertly rigs and moves all of the vacuum furnace and its components, then connect all of the piping and mechanical equipment, and finally, perform the start-up of the machinery.
To see more details of how we successfully put this project together, read below.
JDI’s first objective for this project at Vac Aero’s facility location is to unload the trucks containing all of the components. This machinery ranges from roughly 2,000 lbs. at the lowest end, and over 20,000 lbs. for the vacuum furnace.
Our team of millwrights move the machinery off of a flatbed truck and into the facility with care and precision. They then begin setting the machinery. The first machine necessary to set is the vacuum furnace, which we place on the markings we create with Vac Aero’s engineering team.
Following our careful alignment of the vacuum furnace component, we then begin placing the heating coil system. This component includes an 18″ diameter pipe that requires pipefitting to the furnace once lifted into place.
Our rigging experts lift the heating coil properly, and then our mechanical team’s pipefitter aligns it. Inherently, this process is crucial to the performance of the machine because anything out of place can make the heating inefficient.
Finally, the team aligns the other furnace components and installs them together, completing its assembly. The vacuum furnace system begins startup and testing, which works perfectly, and Vac Aero’s engineering team is ready to put it to work.
JDI installs this mechanical project for Vac Aero’s vacuum furnace within a week, and is now quoting the installation of six more machines.
Completing this project allows Vac Aero to now begin its operations with two fully assembled vacuum furnaces. This will allow their team to serve their aerospace clients alongside Meyer Tool in the Greenville market and beyond.
“We are excited to bring our expertise in vacuum heat treating directly into the heart of one of North America’s most respected regions for power generation and aerospace component manufacturing,” said Brent Davis, President & COO of Vac Aero U.S. Inc.
Dan Godin, Executive Vice President of Meyer Aerospace & Power Generation stated: “This collaboration is leveraging our combined expertise to offer the customer better control of their Value Stream.”
JDI is a proud partner to these companies and looks forward to providing more of what they need from us to ensure their $5.8 million investment is working.
