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  • Sintering
  • Debinding
  • Firing
  • Calcination
  • Bending, arching
  • Cooling
  • Drying

High temperature sintering furnaces

Working temperatures 1500 - 1800°C

Firing and sintering furnaces

Working temperatures 900 - 1400°C

Combi furnaces for debinding and sintering

Working temperatures up to 1750°C

Debinding and drying furnaces

Working temperatures 450 - 850°C

Gas-fired furnaces and plants

Working temperatures up to 1600°C

Catalytic and thermal exhaust air purification systems

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Highlights

Furnace plant for fuel cell production

Production plant consisting of three electrically heated bogie hearth furnaces
Model WK 3500/12 GAS for a leading manufacturer of fuel cells

Sintering of fuel cell stacks with pressurization and process gas supply

  • Sintering temperature up to 950°C
  • Furnace heating with multi-zone control
  • Controlled batch cooling
  • Comprehensive safety concept

Bogie-Hearth furnaces

Production plant consisting of electrically heated bogie hearth furnaces
Model WK 17000/13 DB for a leading manufacturer of grinding wheels in Switzerland

Combined debinding and sintering of grinding wheels with controlled purge air preheating and thermal exhaust gas cleaning.
Loading and unloading of bogies via industrial robots.
Fully automatic movement of the bogies via a rail-bound traversing device with loading and unloading stations as well as parking tracks for the bogies in front of and next to the furnaces.
The complete plant works in unmanned operation.

  • Purging air preheating up to approx. 500°C via 24 powerful air heaters
  • Sintering temperature up to 1280°C
  • Controlled batch cooling
  • Automatic furnace pressure control and volume flow monitoring with integration in the safety matrix
  • Semi-gastight furnace with automatic gas supply unit for the supply of protective gas
  • Separate exhaust gas and exhaust air system
  • Exhaust gas purification via a downstream RNV
  • Furnace heating with multi-zone control
  • Comprehensive safety concept based on EN 1539, monitoring of fresh air and exhaust gas volume flow, continuous LEL measurement
  • Fully automatic process control via Siemens Simatic 7, Siemens WinCC incl. PC for control, documentation and visualization

Chamber furnaces

Production line consisting of four electrically heated chamber furnaces
Model KK 500/14 DB for a leading manufacturer of technical ceramics in China

Combined debinding and sintering of complex technical ceramic components with controlled purge air preheating and catalytic exhaust gas purification

  • Purging air preheating up to approx. 500°C via powerful air heaters
  • Sintering temperature up to T max. 1400°C
  • Controlled batch cooling
  • Automatic furnace pressure control and volume flow monitoring with integration in the safety matrix
  • Semi-gastight furnace with automatic gas supply unit for the supply of protective gas
  • Separate exhaust gas and exhaust air system
  • Furnace heating with multi-zone control
  • Comprehensive safety concept
  • System control via Siemens SPS S7 with touch panel and various options for data tracking and data archiving

Bogie-Hearth gas furnaces

Production plant consisting of two gas-heated bogie hearth furnaces
Model WK 3500/12 GAS for the world market leader of water filters in Switzerland

Debinding and sintering of ceramic filter elements.
Exhaust gas purification via powerful thermal afterburning.
Delivery incl. FID exhaust gas measurement (measurement of the total carbon content TOC by flame ionization detector).

  • Sintering temperature up to 1250°C
  • Heating via eight recuperator gas burners (Kromschröder)
  • Furnace heating with multi-zone control
  • Atmospheric control: furnace atmosphere neutral to slightly oxidizing
  • Controlled batch cooling
  • Automatic furnace pressure control with integration in the safety matrix
  • Powerful thermal afterburning above the furnace with exhaust fan
  • Comprehensive safety concept
  • System control via Siemens SPS S7 with touch panel and various options for data tracking and data archiving

High temperature hood furnaces

Production plant consisting of three electrically heated high temperature hood furnaces model HTH 2000/17 LB2 for a manufacturer of ceramic components for gas turbines.

Sintering of ceramic components at temperatures up to 1750°C
Alternating operation via two charging tables

  • Sintering temperature up to 1750°C
  • Controlled batch cooling
  • Complex exhaust system
  • Furnace heating with multi-zone control
  • Fully automatic process control via Siemens Simatic 7, Siemens WinCC incl. PC for control, documentation and visualization

High temperature tube furnaces

Production plant consisting of four electrically heated high-temperature tube furnaces for a Dutch electronics group

Sintering of materials for LED production at temperatures up to 1750°C with the addition of process gases

  • Sintering temperature up to 1750°C
  • Controlled supply of process gases
  • Multi-zone control for the working tube
  • Fully automatic process control via Siemens Simatic 7, Siemens WinCC incl. PC for control, documentation and visualization