Established in 1983, Hitchiner's Gas Turbine Division has experienced steady growth since its inception. This division primarily services the jet engine component market and specializes in producing hot-section parts requiring sophisticated vacuum-melted alloys, with emphasis on complex, thin-walled applications.
The Gas Turbine Division utilizes the Countergravity Low-pressure Vacuum melt (CLV) casting process to produce parts as thin as .015 of an inch. This technological capability, an advantage over the conventional techniques employed by our competitors, has enabled us to create new markets by converting to investment castings many components previously manufactured by more costly combinations of processes.
The Gas Turbine Division is a fully qualified supplier to Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Westinghouse, Allison, BMW-Rolls Royce, MTU, Sundstrand, Solar and many others. Our ISO-9002 certified quality systems assure this status, and our process advantage assures our dominance as the leading producer of thin-walled vacuum castings.
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Last modified and validated 13-May-2003.
