Altair

Altair Technologies Inc. is a US manufacturer based in Fremont, California. It offers vacuum and furnace brazing, turnkey contract manufacturing and a range of linear accelerators, known as LINACs, with the parts that go with them.

Its turnkey contract manufacturing covers design engineering, supply chain services, inventory management, in-house processing of materials, tooling, assembly, performance testing, packaging and delivery. The company calls this a personal factory for its customers. It says the approach lowers costs and shortens production times.

Precision furnace brazing is the company's core process for joining materials. Its work includes brazing copper to stainless steel in electron gun parts, brazed cooling plates and brazed X-ray target surfaces. It also carries out high vacuum bakeout steps and fluid flow analysis for heat exchangers.

Altair makes its own products too. These include linear accelerators, RF windows, waveguide assemblies, ion pumps, electron guns and target assemblies. Items can be bought off the shelf or built to order. The company also serves the ultra-high vacuum component market.

Its customers work in medical and security, defense and aerospace, semiconductor, and machine shops. The company says it takes on difficult engineering and manufacturing jobs across a broad range of industries.

Altair is ISO 9001:2015 certified and ITAR registered. It says it has 27 years of continuous improvement behind its brazing and contract manufacturing work. It follows five principles of manufacturing: on-time delivery, quality at a competitive price, customer satisfaction, technical strength and honest business values. Some of its staff have been with the company for 15 to 20 years. An in-house research and development group, called ARG, supports new applications. The company also follows IPC 1755 conflict minerals reporting and states that its sourcing is DRC conflict-free.

Services

• Vacuum and furnace brazing
• Turnkey contract manufacturing
• Linear accelerators
• RF windows
• Waveguide assemblies
• Ion pumps
• Electron guns
• Target assemblies
• Design engineering
• Performance testing