Centorr Vacuum celebrates 70 years in vacuum furnace industry
In 2024, Centorr Vacuum Industries (CVI) is celebrating its 70th anniversary in the vacuum furnace industry. CVI was formed from the combination of Vacuum Industries, founded in 1954 in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, and the Centorr Furnace company, founded in 1962 in Suncook, New Hampshire. The two were merged in 1989, with new facilities in Nashua, New Hampshire, where the company is still located.
In 1997, CVI became 100% management-owned and is now run as a private company under president and CEO William Nareski. “We have enjoyed long-term success over the past seventy years because our highest priority is customer satisfaction with our equipment and service” stated Nareski.
Vacuum Industries was started by the principles of the original National Research Corp. in Boston. It had a long history in the design and building of production size furnaces, primarily for the metals and hardmetals industry. Centorr Furnaces was a Laboratory and R&D furnace manufacturer, and was known for doing some of the first high temperature 3000°C furnaces for the growing ceramics market. In later years, Centorr was known as a world leader in fibre optics and high-temperature hydrogen sintering furnaces for the lighting industry.
Today, Centorr is best known for its line of metals and ceramics sintering furnaces, large equipment sold into the nuclear industry, and for its line of furnaces sold into the carbon, graphite, and composites industry for aerospace and hypersonics.
Centorr Vacuum Industries is one of the leading custom and standardised vacuum furnace manufacturers, and has an installed base of over 7000 high temperature vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces worldwide. CVI operates a fully staffed Aftermarket Field Service group and an Applied Technology Center, offering R&D support and toll production service.
