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THE HOWARD NAME has long been associated with "custom built" Vacuum Chambers, dating back to the early 1950s with the first chamber being built for a JPL-Ford Aerospace-Rockwell project. Howard Fabrication carries on that tradition by specializing in the design, engineering and fabrication of large and small vacuum chambers as well as building complete Vacuum Systems. As an ASME Code fabricator, our welders, welding procedures and quality control program meet the highest standards in the world.

SYSTEM SIZING is not a problem. Our shop capabilities allow us to fabricate chambers ranging in 12" to 20' in diameter with lengths ranging from 1' to 80'.

OUR RANGE OF EXPERTISE includes (but is not limited to) Bakeout, Degassing, Environmental, Evaporators, Ion Etching, Optical Coating, Pharmaceutical, Propulsion Testing, Semiconductor Processes, Space Simulation, Sputtering.

OUR ASME CODE WELDERS are experts in the welding of the following metals: all Stainless Steels, Carbon Steel, Aluminum, Inonel, Hastalloy, Monel.

BY HAVING AN "R" stamp (in addition to our "U" stamp the repair and modification of ASME Code vessels and Vacuum Chambers in the field is a great advantage to our clients. Our field crews are trained in "Confined Space Entry" procedures and we coordinate field work around your production scheduling and "Shutdowns".



1999 Customers Include:
Aerojet Industries, B.F. Goodrich Aerospace, Edwards Air Force Base

Hughes EDD, Hughes Research Laboratory, Hughes Space & Comm.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, TRW Space Technology



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