MATERIALS RESEARCH FURNACES, INC., designs, manufactures, and services high-temperature, vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces for a wide range of applications. MRF, Inc has a line of standard products and also builds many custom furnaces to meet specific customer requirements. MRF products are used worldwide by laboratories, universities and the production industry.
Common applications:
Arc melting
Annealing, Brazing
Ceramic Firing
Crystal growing
Heat Treating, MIM, CVD, CVI
Hot Pressing
Laboratory research
Powder metallurgy
Purification, Debinding
Sintering
Wire annealing
Lots more.
Are your application requirements not obtainable with "off-the-shelf" ovens? MRF, Inc. specializes in high temperature furnaces customized for specific application needs. Many of our furnace systems are custom assignments where each one is uniquely built and configured for the specific needs and requirements of our customers.
If you have a more common high temperature furnace application, we can also supply you with one of our many time proven competitive standard products. Learn more about our various products. In addition to our complete furnace systems and standard accessories, we also provide heaters, shielding, insulation, chambers, vacuum kits, hydrogen kits, control kits and other parts specially designed for use on furnaces manufactured by others.
MRF, Inc. consists of highly experienced engineers and technical people and we consider ourselves high temperature, vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnace experts. Due to our wide products range and our wilingness to build about any furnace, our products are used for a wide variety of functions and uses. The list below is a sample of processes our different furnaces are used for.
High-temperature Furnace Applications:
Alloy creation, Annealing, Arc Casting, Arc Melting, Brazing, Binding, Casting, Ceramic Firing, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI), Compound Synthesis, Crystal Growing (Bridgman, Czochralski, Stepanov), Debinding, Degassing, Dewaxing, Densification, Diffusion Bonding, Fiber Drawing (Optical, Graphite, Silicon Carbide),Gas Purification, Gem Creation, Heat Treating, Hardening, Hot Pressing, Laboratory Research, Material Densification, Metal Injection Molding (MIM), Melting Point Determination, Metallic & non Metallic button creation, Nano-technology, Physical Testing, Powder Metallurgy, Purification, Quenching, Silicon Nitriding, Reaction Bonding, Sintering, Surface Heat Treatment, Temperature Sensor Calibration.
MTI Instruments is a worldwide supplier of precision non-contact physical measurement solutions, condition based monitoring systems, portable balancing equipment and semiconductor wafer inspection tools. MTI Instrumen's products use a comprehensive array of technologies to solve complex real world applications in numerous industries including manufacturing, semiconductor, commercial/military aviation, automotive and data storage.
Our products offer non contact measurement to determine tire tread depth, disk and rotor run out, wafer flatness and characterization, weld and seam tracking, ultrasonic horn vibration, robotic laser inspection, and many more applications. When it comes to electronic gauging instruments for position, displacement and vibration applications within the design, manufacturing/production, QA/ QC test and research markets; semiconductor products for wafer characterization of semi-insulating and semi-conducting wafers; and engine balancing and vibration analysis for both military and commercial aircraft, MTI Instruments has the right tools for you.
MTI Instruments is very proud of the crucial role it played with many of the world's largest companies whether it's in basic research, improved efficiency during production or quality control by offering solutions directly to the end-user or an embedded technology for leading OEM suppliers. Whatever you touch has probably been measured by MTI Instruments.
Technology:
Laser Sensor
Fiber Optic Measurement
Capacitance Measurement
Products:
Precision Measurement Instruments: Displacement/Vibration/Position Sensors.
Tensile, Compression and Bend Testing Machines.
Semiconductors and Solar Metrology Systems.
Aviation & Industrial Vibration/Balancing Measurement Systems.
nLIGHT is a vertically integrated supplier of high-performance lasers that enable innovation in materials processing, defense, and medical applications. nLIGHT develops and manufactures direct diode and fiber lasers based on industry-leading semiconductor laser and optical fiber technology.
nLIGHT is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington with additional sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. We're committed to working together to deliver breakthrough solutions that help innovate and grow our customers' needs.
Novacam Technologies Inc. designs and manufactures high-precision optical sensor systems for 3D metrology applications in industry and biomedicine. Our systems are based on low-coherence interferometry and feature fiber-based non-contact scanning probes.
Our products include:
Profilometer (profiler) systems and 3D scanners for 3D metrology, roughness measurements, thickness measurements, and cross-sectional imaging in high-precision industries
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems for tissue measurement and imaging in biomedicine and life sciences
Modular hardware components for original equipment manuracturers (OEMs) and for R&D
Custom metrology solutions based on low-coherence interferometry
Novacam products are used internationally in online high-technology manufacturing processes, QA/QC laboratories, R&D laboratories, and bio-medical research institutes. Clients value Novacam systems for their high precision, high speed, versatility of installation, the ability to inspect hard-to-reach surfaces and the ability to operate in hostile environments.
Novacam also partners with system integrators and OEMs who wish to incorporate Novacam advanced OCT platform components into custom assemblies for vertical markets.
Founded in 1997, Novacam is a privately held company.
Applications:
3D metrology in hard-to-reach spaces, such as inside bores, cylinders and narrow tubes;
Thickness of multi-layer or single-layer films;
Roughness, including shape, flatness and waviness;
Volume loss from surface wear; High aspect ratio features, such as steps, grooves, channels, steep slopes and holes;
Hostile environments including radioactive, very high temperature, cryogenic; Non-transparent material thickness with LIBS and profilometry
Oxy-Gon offers a wide range of furnaces for, Ceramic Firing, Annealing, Brazing, Hot Pressing and more. Oxy-Gon furnaces have temperatures up to 2800°C (5000°F) and controlled atmospheres, rough to ultra-high vacuum, inert gas, nitrogen, hydrogen or reducing gas. Oxy-Gon is “Degrees Ahead in Quality” since 1988.
Products:
Gas Purification Furnaces
Universal Application Furnaces
Bottom Loading Furnaces
Bell Jar Loading Furnace
General Purpose Furnaces
Hot Press Furnace Systems
Fiber Draw Furnaces
End Loading Tube Furnaces
Top Loading Furnaces
Crystal Growth Furnaces
Tensile Testing Furnaces
Molybdenum Furnace Elements
Tungsten Furnace Elements
For over 90 years, Prior Scientific has been setting the industry standard for performance, quality and reliability. The tradition continues with a full line of high precision programmable motorized microscope stages, laser autofocus systems, fluorescence illumination systems, automated slide handling systems, fiber optic inspection equipment, motorized filter wheels, microscopes, custom optical systems and a wide array of microscopy accessories for a variety of applications.
Prior Scientific designs and manufactures a wide range of scientific instrumentation, specializing in microscope automation and optical microscopy. This has been the core of our business since 1919. Our experience is unrivalled and our commitment to engineering excellence is reflected in the performance and quality of our broad product portfolio. Although we offer a range of standard products, Prior also offers OEM and customized solutions tailored to your individual requirements. Many of the world's leading scientific instrumentation companies already benefit from Prior's expertise.
Products include:
Motorized Stages
Robotic Sample Handling Systems
Metal Halide / LED Illumination Systems
Laser Autofocus Systems
Focus Drives & Nanopositioning
OEM Solutions & Contract Manufacturing
Optical Power Meter
ProZ Motorized Focus Columns
High Speed Filter Wheels & Shutters
Controllers
Physiology/Multi-Photon Platform Stages
Sample Holders
Joysticks& Digpots
Incubation Systems
Micromanipulators
Strainoptics is the world's leading manufacturer of non-contact, non-destructive stress measurement instrumentation to the glass and plastics industries.
In addition to the internationally recognized GASP® surface polarimeter, our product line encompasses a complete range of instruments, from simple strain viewers and polarimeter systems to specialized on-line and off-line equipment for measuring stress and other optical properties in a wide range of materials, including:
Float Glass
Architectural Glass
Automotive Glass
Electronic Glass
Container Glass
Optical/scientific Glass
Molded Products
Medical Packaging & Devices
Plastic Applications:
Strain Viewers
Polarimeters
Automated Birefringence Measurement Systems
Our test methods and instruments may be used with almost any transparent or translucent materials (generally a minimum of 25% transmissivity is required). Here are a few of the applications where our equipment has been successfully used to measure residual stress and/or birefringence:
Ceramics
Quartz
BaF2 and other crystalline materials
Fiber optic preforms
Special glass compositions
For forty years, Summers Optical has manufactured and distributed optical cements and adhesives for military, commercial, and aerospace usage. Formerly known as Summers Laboratories, we have been the innovators of unique adhesive systems for the bonding of glass to metal, glass to glass, metal to plastic, and plastic to metal as well as 2-Component and 1-component (UV curing) cements for the bonding of like and unlike substrates.
All of our cements and adhesives have been formulated and are manufactured keeping in mind many of the typical bonding problems that are prevalent in the optical industry. Our line of cements offer solutions to broad band transmission, high mechanical shock and chemical resistance, differences in thermal expansion, laser, fiber optic, and filter applications, as well as bonding a wide variety of substrate materials.
We have always been committed to our customers and this commitment is matched only by our pride in quality and workmanship. You are invited to browse through our home page to learn more about our cements and our cementing accessories and what we have to offer the optical industry.
Sunstrand’s products and operations have been designed to deliver consistent, high quality materials compatible with a large number of applications and a particular emphasis on providing bulk feedstocks for the plastics, polymer composites and non-woven manufacturing industries.
Prior to starting Sunstrand, Dr. Riddle founded Gradient Engineering, Inc in an effort to supply innovative design, material evaluations, research and development services to meet the needs of a growing composites industry. Seeing a growing interest in biocomposites, the team at Gradient began to monitor and research the area. The real work began when Gradient won a Small Business Innovative Research award from the prestigious National Science Foundation. This work pioneered the extraction of bamboo fiber from raw bamboo cane and the conversion of these fibers to forms compatible with polymer composites. During this work it became apparent that there was a need for a reliable supplier of biomaterials that understands the composites industry.
During the summer of 2014, Sunstrand was formed, not only to commercialize on the bamboo developments at Gradient, but to meet the needs of an industry by providing biomaterials and processing services. The company is located in Louisville, Kentucky which is in close proximity to agricultural feedstock suppliers and customers. Sunstrand now works with a variety of feedstocks including bamboo, hemp, kenaf, flax and jute. Sunstrand utilizes a team consisting of Mechanical Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Mechanical Engineering Technologists, Material Scientists and Technicians. The team has highly specialized composites design, manufacturing and testing experience. We come from broad industries such as wind energy, paper, snowsports, biomass, automotive, academia and aerospace.
The SURAGUS GmbH develops, manufactures and sells eddy current-based testing technology for innovative testing tasks. The company uses new technological opportunities due to advances in signal processing, the availability of more powerful computing technologies and possibilities of new manufacturing and miniaturization methods. Applications are amongst others quality control of structured and unstructured functional layers, quality assurance of carbon fiber materials and classic conductive materials. The company is a spin-off and licensees of the Fraunhofer IKTS Dresden.
The eddy current method utilizes local conductivity variations of the test objects for the characterization of correlated quality characteristics such as thickness, conductivity, homogeneity and purity or physical changes. The complex eddy current signal contains various information about the test object which can be separated in many cases with simple or complex algorithms. Our eddy current testing technology is based on a powerful eddy current electronics with a frequency range from 10 kHz to 100 MHz, which is combined with different sensor concepts depending on the application.
Primary advantages:
Contact-free
Fast (EddyCus Systems measure at a rate of 50.000 measurements per second)
Suitable for automation
Broad portfolio of sensors for different applications
Applications include:
Contactless Conductivity measurement of functional thin films (e.g. TCOs, CNTs, Metallization, Silver-Nanowire)
Non-contact Orientation testing and flaw detection for Carbon fiber composites (undulations, Impacts, gases, thrust faults)
Contactless weight determination in many carbon fiber materials
Determination of gradients of super-alloys
Layer thickness measurement of thin films and coatings from 5 nm thickness
Mapping for errors in conductive layer system (cracks, voids, delaminations, etc.)
