LAN received a silver award for architectural and engineering consulting services in the special projects category for the installation of a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Coater at the Advanced Coating Technologies' ("ACT") facility located in Wallkill, NY. ACT is a joint venture between Chromalloy and Pratt & Whitney, which provides mass production high temperature specialty coatings for jet aircraft engines and turbine vanes. The thermal barrier coating process vaporizes zirconia ceramic with electron beam guns at forty thousand volts. The resulting vapor cloud then condenses on the jet engine parts and increases the turbine operating efficiency.

Electron Beam Coater & Pit

Electron Beam Coater Chamber

The constraints unique to performing construction in an operational production facility proved challenging, but the resulting expansion produced a premier coating facility, housing the largest Electron Beam Coater in the world. The extraordinary efforts of both Holt Construction Corporation and Vista Electrical Contractors, Inc. contributed to the success of this project.

The installation of the new equipment has doubled the facility's production capacity and created additional jobs within the community.

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