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Capability profile
VAC AERO provides vacuum heat treatment, brazing, thermal spray, diffusion coatings, furnace manufacture and metallurgical services for critical aerospace components.
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
VAC AERO reported Boeing’s C$7 million CP-8A ITB commitment in April 2026 for two vacuum furnaces destined for Boeing’s Algona facility. This is a manufacturing commitment, not confirmed installation or an increase in Canadian heat-treatment service capacity.
Heat treatment, brazing, coating and laboratory services are available through Canadian divisions; vacuum-furnace manufacture is a separate equipment-supply route.
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Source type: official company product
Supports: Capability · core features
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · name
Vacuum heat treatment, brazing and aerospace coatings
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
True North Map maps Vacuum heat treatment, brazing and aerospace coatings to advanced manufacturing and integration from its documented technology functions.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · core features
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
VAC AERO International currently presents Vacuum heat treatment, brazing and aerospace coatings through its official public capability surface.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · core features
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the aerospace coatings tag from VAC AERO International's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · capability type
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the brazing tag from VAC AERO International's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Propulsion components This bounded statement is retained for reviewer verification.
Supports: Capability · core features
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · name
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · summary
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · core features
Thermal spray This bounded statement is retained for reviewer verification.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Critical-component life extension
Supports: Capability · core features
Vacuum heat treatment This bounded statement is retained for reviewer verification.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
True North Map applies the heat treatment tag from VAC AERO International's documented capability functions.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · core features
Metallurgical laboratory services
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Aerospace special-process manufacturing
Supports: Capability · core features
Brazing and diffusion coating This bounded statement is retained for reviewer verification.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · core features
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · summary
VAC AERO provides vacuum heat treatment, brazing, thermal spray, diffusion coatings, furnace manufacture and metallurgical services for critical aerospace components.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
VAC AERO's current portfolio distinguishes vacuum heat treatment, brazing, oil quenching, thermal spray, pack-aluminide coating, metallurgical services and separate furnace manufacture. The company publishes Ontario and Quebec process approvals and scopes work by facility and process; group-level logos do not establish every treatment's approval.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Landing-gear and airframe parts
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada
Source type: government service page
Supports: Capability · maturity
Aerospace Industries Association of Canada's public evidence confirms a company-specific project, award, program or operating context, while configuration-specific acceptance and scale remain bounded by the reviewer warning.
Source type: award or contract
Supports: Capability · maturity
VAC AERO's April 6 2026 release reports Boeing's C$7 million CP-8A ITB commitment to manufacture two vacuum furnaces for Boeing's Algona, Washington Tube, Duct and Reservoir Center. Equipment is to be installed; the statement does not confirm installation or increase Canadian service-furnace capacity.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
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