Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a world leader in conventional and state-of-the-art joining processes. A wide variety of joining capabilities is available to provide "One Stop Shopping" for your hardware requirements. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has the capability to join similar metals as well as dissimilar metals including super alloys. Robust processes ensure a high degree of first time through yield.

• Electron beam (EB): high & low voltage
• Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW): robotic, orbital, & manual
• Plasma welding: micro plasma tungsten arc (MPTA) & conventional plasma arc welding
• Resistance welding
• Inertia welding
• Metal fitting of critical product assemblies
• Unique & complex configurations
• In-process verification
• Certified in welding
  • Stainless steel
  • Nickel base superalloys
  • Titanium
  • Columbium
  • Aluminum

• GE Furnace

  Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) Furnace

  Large scale furnace brazing
• Induction brazing
• Hot isostatic pressing (HIP)
• Manual brazing
• Precision fitting, braze tooling, & braze alloy application

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has very high temperature processing capabilities used for brazing and to stress relieve superalloys and contamination sensitive refractory metals using a variety of atmospheres including, high vacuum, hydrogen, argon, hydrogen/argon mixtures, nitrogen, and air.  A large natural gas fired box furnace is used primarily for retort brazing of thrust chambers and injectors at temperatures above 2000°F.  The gas box is also used to process Titanium and Columbium alloys in argon atmosphere that produces no surface oxidation (alpha case).

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne also possesses two large vacuum compression braze (VCB) furnaces. The VCB furnaces are capable of brazing a large variety of milled channel heat exchanger configurations up to 6 atmospheres pressure to 2300°F, as well as performing as a conventional hard vacuum or partial pressure system when required.

• Structural nickel, copper, and silver
• Nickel, copper, silver, & gold for environmental barriers & brazability
• Localized cell plating for overhaul/repair & field support

• Initial fabrication & process analysis
• Metallic & non-metallic materials: eg. nylons
• Solid model manipulation (shrinkage compensation)

Selective Laser
Sintering Machines

Alkali Cleaning Solutions including

• Ultrasonic Cleaning Capability
• Hydrochloric Acid Solutions for Etch Processing
• Descaling Solutions
• Rinse Water Tanks

• Welding Lab

  Welding
• Heat processing (brazing and heat treating)
• Plating
• Prototype development
• Machining
• Sheet metal
• Design
• Assembly

• Precision Spray Coating Robotic System
• Vapor Blast Machine
• Drying Oven