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.
For over 40 years, Pyradia industrial ovens has been offering state of the art ovens & furnaces. As one of the leading manufacturer of aluminum & steel heat treating equipment such as drop bottom ovens and controlled atmosphere furnaces, Pyradia is renowned for delivering performance & reliability as well as exceeding temperature uniformity expectations.
For 40 years, Pyradia has been a major supplier of high temperature industrial ovens and heat treating equipment, from table top laboratory solutions to drop bottom ovens for aluminum heat treating, to a great number of the top companies throughout the world. We design and manufacture a broad range of standard and custom-built Industrial Ovens and Furnaces for heat treatment at temperatures ranging from 800°F to 3200°F (425°C to 1760°C).
Solar Manufacturing stands out above our competition. Our vacuum heat treating and brazing furnaces are designed to be the most energy efficient, cost effective, highest performing and most technically advanced furnaces on the market. With models ranging from small top-loading laboratory size furnaces to mid-size horizontal production furnaces to huge car-bottom vacuum furnaces, we design for heat treat processes such as hardening, brazing, stress relieving, normalizing, annealing, tempering, and sintering. Our furnaces feature improved graphite insulation materials, curved graphite heating elements, tapered gas nozzles, high velocity gas quench systems, SolarVac® 3000, 4000, and 5000 interactive control systems, ConserVac energy management system and Magnetic Specialties' Smart Power Supplies.
Solar Manufacturing has also developed a name throughout the industry in Aftermarket Support. Our engineers can improve your existing hot zone by designing a replacement hot zone that is durable, energy efficient and will improve cooling and heating. We also offer vacuum furnace spare parts and service.
Solar Manufacturing is a member of the Solar Atmospheres family of companies. Solar Atmospheres, Inc. is a progressive company and the largest independently owned commercial heat treater in the USA. With this affiliation and our extensive experience, Solar Manufacturing has gained a distinct advantage in the industry to assist you in choosing the right vacuum furnace or replacement hot zone for your needs.
T-M Vacuum Products, Inc. provides a wide selection of heat treating and thermal processing solutions. We provide various sizes of medical, sintering, continuous, tempering and high vacuum furnaces and ovens. We also offer vacuum brazing furnaces and ovens, optical coating systems, thin film disposition sputtering systems and atmospheric enclosures, commonly known as glove boxes.
We strive to create the best vacuum tempering furnaces and heat treating equipment possible which means high quality and cost effective products. Our systems typically exceed 20 years of life in a full-time 24/7 production environment. This means that each of the heat treating sintering, continuous, brazing, medical, high and tempering vacuum furnaces, high vacuum ovens, optical coating systems, thin film disposition sputtering systems and glove boxes you purchase from our company are the most advanced and cost effective on the market. This characteristic applies to all of our systems regardless of application or product specificity. Optical coating systems, thin film disposition sputtering systems and our glove box units all carry the same mark of quality that our furnace systems possess.
Products:
Vacuum Furnaces & Ovens
Thin Film Deposition
Glove Boxes
Thermal Product Solutions (TPS) designs and manufactures industrial and laboratory ovens and furnaces, and environmental temperature cycling and stability test chambers. Product brands include Blue M, Gruenberg, Lindberg/MPH, Tenney, Wisconsin Oven, and Baker Furnace. TPS headquarters are located in New Columbia, Pennsylvania. Lindberg/MPH is located in Riverside, Michigan, Wisconsin Oven is located in East Troy, Wisconsin, and Baker Furnace is located in Yorba Linda, CA.
The Blue M product brand is recognized in the industry as a leader in the design, manufacture and support of industrial ovens, inline curing ovens, light industrial furnaces, custom industrial ovens, and ASTM test ovens. These industrial ovens accommodate a wide range of applications and configurations to meet virtually any thermal processing requirement.
The Gruenberg product brand is recognized as a leader in the manufacture of industrial ovens including class 100 sterilizers, continuous process explosion-proof dryers, isolators and barrier systems, and a variety of thermal process systems for biotech, medical devices, and diagnostic products.
The Lindberg/MPH product brands have a long-standing reputation in the heat treating and non-ferrous melting furnace industry, including design, manufacture, and service. There are more than 75,000 Lindberg industrial furnace installations worldwide. Lindberg/MPH also offers complete product engineering and manufacturing services to handle molten metal handling request with speed and efficiency.
The Tenney product brand offers one of the most comprehensive lines of environmental test chambers and rooms in the industry. The line includes custom and standard environmental rooms, shock and vibration chambers, and environmental test chambers.
Wisconsin Oven Corporation has been designing, engineering, and manufacturing industrial ovens and other heating equipment for 40 years. Both custom and standard industrial ovens are used for a multitude of applications including heat treating, finishing, drying, or curing.
Baker Furnace is a leading American manufacturer of custom-built industrial ovens, furnaces and pollution control equipment serving the aerospace, finishing, environmental, heat treating, oil and gas industries.
Verder Scientific - Science for Solids
The SCIENTIFIC Division of the VERDER Group sets standards in high-tech equipment for quality control, research and development of solid matter. The fields of activity cover sample preparation of solids as well as analyzing technologies.
The well-known Verder Scientific brands have served research institutions, analytical laboratories as well as manufacturing companies in quality control and process applications for many decades with ever more sophisticated and reliable products which offer the solution to their individual task.