Capabilities

The benchmark of success at HCC Industries is our engineering leadership combined with an unwavering commitment to meet and exceed our customers’ requirements. At HCC, we have the technology, the resources, and the partnerships in place to focus on doing what we do best: glass-to-metal sealing and ceramic-to-sealing / brazing.

HCC Industries is ISO 9001 (with AS9100A) Registered by NSF. Our total vertical integration includes:

A total square footage over 330,000, including 130,000 sq. ft. of machining
Computer-aided design (Autocad and SolidWorks) to support all external and internal customer requirements
Machining: Our machine shop is capable of providing all components necessary for glass-to-metal sealed products using the latest CNC, Davenport, and Swiss-screw machines

Bodies, shells or metal housings: Inconel, Kovar and Nickel Alloys, Stainless Steel, Cold-Rolled Steel, Monel, Titanium, Tungsten Copper, Aluminum, AlSi, AlSiC
Electrodes and contacts: Alloy 52, Inconel, Kovar, Molybdenum, Stainless Steel, Hastelloy, and Chromel/Alumel, and for the thermocouple applications, Iron/Constantin
Carbon fixtures
Close tolerance finish machining

Metal Fabrication

Complete stamping and punching
Precision grinding and lapping

Tool Shop is equipped to fabricate all tooling necessary to support the products manufactured

Glass dies
Rubber molds
Punch press dies
Assembly tooling
Pressure test fixtures
Lead bend tooling
Lead chop tooling
EDM
Blank and draw dies

Glass Shop

28 glass presses
Single glass beads
Multi-pin beads
Glass mixing
2 sintering furnaces
Glass silkscreening
Drawn/Extruded Tube glass

High temperature Processing of Ceramic Seals

High temperature cofired ceramic technology: Aluminum Oxide

Furnaces for glass-to-metal sealing / brazing

Continuous belt

Nitrogen capable
Exothermic
Hydrogen
Forming gas
High and Low-temperature integration/brazing

Batch

Vacuum
Hydrogen

Cleaning

Complete onsite capability for the chemical and mechanical removal of sealing oxides and passivation of metals, without the use of ozone-depleting chemicals

Innovative electroplating technology, including:

Nickel (3 types)
Gold (3 types)
Copper
Palladium
Tin, Tin-lead, Hot Solder Dip, Tin reflow electrosolder
Electropolishing of stainless steel
For verification of platting thickness, we use Seiko SFT-157 and Veeco XRF-5300H X-Ray fluorescent measurement equipment

Chemical Lab

Atomic Absorption, ATI UNICAM 929, Spectrometer
Complete chemical analysis capability

Continuous process neutralization systems for:

All rinse waters
All concentrated chemicals

Inspection / Testing

Statistical Process Control
Coordinate measuring machines
Optical comparators
Liquid to liquid thermal cycle/shock
Pressure test to 45,000 psi (at ambient temperature)
Steam age/solderability testing
Humidity testing
High voltage to 6000 VAC/VDC
Temperature Cycling
Optical Measuring Machines
Lead Fatigue
Hermeticity validation to 1 x 10-11 cc/sec of helium at 1 atmosphere differential pressure
Insulation resistance to 10 gigaohms at 500 VDC
Salt spray
Compliance to JEDEC Std. 9
Metallurgical Lab for failure analysis

Reduced lead times for prototyping, as well as custom-tailored inventory management programs from Kanbans to direct management of customer MRP systems

Lean manufacturing implementation at all facilities for improved efficiency, reduction in lead times and cost to manufacture

Committed to solving each customer’s unique problems, HCC employs individuals exclusively for customer service at each facility