Industry Industrial furnaces Area served Worldwide Number of employees 1,000 | Founder Harold Ipsen Website www.ipsen.de Founded 1957 | |
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Key people Thorsten Krüger (CEO), Peter Fleischmann, Geoffrey Somary and Houman Khorram Products Atmosphere Furnaces, Vacuum Furnaces, pusher-type Furnaces, heat-treating Software, process technology Parent organization Ipsen International Holding GmbH | ||
The company Ipsen International Holding GmbH belongs to the capital goods industry branch, specifically to the machine building branch. They develop, construct and manufacture industrial furnaces. Managing Directors of the Holding are Thorsten Krüger, Peter Fleischmann, Geoffrey Somary and Houman Khorram.
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Facilities
The Ipsen Group engages 1,000 employees worldwide and has manufacturing sites in Germany, United States, India, Malaysia, China und Japan. These sites and representatives in 34 countries are Ipsen's sales network.
History
Harold Ipsen has founded Ipsen Industries in Rockford (USA) 1948. The manufacturing site in Kleve (Germany) was founded in 1957.
Products
Ipsen’s industrial furnaces are used for hardening steel and other materials in different processes in order to satisfy completely the high quality requirements of engine, gear or generating plant manufacture.
Ipsen customers can be found in the following branches: medical technology/engineering, wind power generation, aviation and food industry, automotive industry, aerospace industry but also in 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 of steel and titanium alloy.
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