about us

It’s a competitive industry, but Solar Manufacturing stands out above the rest. With over 200 combined years of experience in vacuum furnace design, we provide you with vacuum heat treating and brazing furnaces that are designed to be the most energy efficient, cost effective, highest performing and most technically advanced furnaces on the market. With models ranging from top-loading laboratory size to horizontal mid-size production furnaces to large car-bottom vacuum furnaces, we design for heat treat processes such as hardening, brazing, stress relieving, normalizing, annealing, tempering, and sintering. Featured are improved graphite insulation materials, curved graphite heating elements, tapered gas nozzles, high velocity gas quench systems, SolarVac 3000 interactive control systems, ConserVac energy management system and Magnetic Specialties Smart Power Supplies.

Solar Manufacturing has also developed a name throughout the industry in Aftermarket Sales. Our engineers can improve your existing hot zone by designing a replacement hot zone that is durable, energy efficient and will improve cooling and heating. We also offer vacuum furnace spare parts and service.

Solar Manufacturing is a member of the Solar Atmospheres family of companies. Solar Atmospheres, Inc. is a progressive company and the largest independently owned commercial heat treater in the USA. This affiliation and our extensive experience affords Solar Manufacturing a distinct advantage in the industry to assist you in choosing the right vacuum furnace or replacement hot zone for your needs.

Our Facility

Our state of the art, 65,000 square foot plant includes new, high-intensity lighting, a water circulation system for testing furnaces, additional electrical power distribution and improved loading docks to accommodate three trucks. Conveniently located next door is the Solar Technology Center, where engineers, chemists and metallurgists perform research and development to keep Solar Manufacturing in the forefront of vacuum innovations.