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Ipsen International Holding

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Ipsen International Holding GmbH
IndustryIndustrial furnaces
Founded1957
FounderHarold Ipsen
HeadquartersKleve, Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Geoffrey Somary (Group CEO) and Houman Khorram (CFO)
ProductsAtmosphere Furnaces, Pusher-Type Furnaces, Batch Furnaces, Heat-Treating Software
Number of employees
1,000
Website[1]

Ipsen International Holding GmbH of Kleve, Germany develops, constructs and manufactures industrial furnaces. Its managing directors are Geoffrey Somary and Houman Khorram.

Factory in Kleve

The Ipsen Group has 1,000 employees worldwide and has manufacturing sites in Germany, United States, and India, with support centers in China und Japan. It also has sales/service representation in 34 other countries.

History

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Harold Ipsen (1915-1965) founded Ipsen Industries in Rockford, Illinois in 1948. The company expanded to its German manufacturing site in Kleve in 1957.[1]

Products

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Ipsen's industrial furnaces are used for hardening steel and other metals in different processes to satisfy completely the high-quality requirements of engines, gears, generating plant manufacturing and other industrial parts and equipment.

Ipsen has customers in medical technology and engineering, wind power generation, aviation, food, automotive, aerospace, tool manufacturing, mechanical engineering and hardening shops.

Heat treatment is a crucial, very cost-effective process to considerably improve the structural conditions and consequently the resilience of metals, in particular to steel and titanium alloys. Ipsen's industrial furnaces - vacuum furnaces, atmosphere furnaces and pusher-type furnaces - are used for the following heat treatment processes: hardening, quenching, tempering, carburization, carbon nitriding, nitro carburization, bright tempering, annealing, vacuum brazing, temperature brazing, plasma nitriding

References

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  1. ^ Reinhold, Markus. "Harold Ipsen – a pioneer in the field of modern heat treatment" (PDF). Ipsen. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
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