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Dr. Bruce ScruggsWilliam R Jones, FASM

William R Jones, FASM has more than 45 years of experience in the fields of vacuum furnace designs and vacuum processing. He has written many technical publications on vacuum technology and holds 15 patents on various aspects of furnace designs. He served as president of Abar Corp. in the early 1970s, and in 1978 founded Vacuum Furnace Systems (VFS) to engineer and manufacture vacuum furnaces. In 1982, he founded Solar Atmospheres, which has now grown into the largest privately owned commercial vacuum heat treating group in the USA. In 2002, he added Solar Manufacturing to the group to provide advanced vacuum furnace designs and equipment for the heat treating industry.