EQS Steps Forward, Invests in New Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace (VIM)

Ellwood Quality Steels (EQS) based in New Castle, PA, has placed a purchase order for a new vacuum induction melting furnace (VIM) to produce premium alloys, supporting applications including aerospace supply chains that have increasing demand signals. The installation will allow heat sizes from 4 Mton to 18 Mton. EQS will supply material to support customer needs using the new VIM coupled with vacuum arc re-melting (VAR) and electroslag re-melting (ESR) using our re-melting facility installed in 2019.

The VIM is expected to be commissioned in 2026.

Ellwood Quality Steels (EQS) and Ellwood National Steel (ENS) are North America’s leading suppliers of carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steels along with nickel alloys for the open-die forging, extrusion ring rolling and potentially all hot working industries. With the recent expansion of our re-melting (both VAR & ESR) and the new vacuum induction melting furnace (VIM), EQS and ENS are poised to become your solution for advanced aerospace alloys.