Tenova CorePittsburgh, USA

LOI LiègeLiège, Belgium

IVADortmund, Germany

B.M.I.Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France

LOI ThermprocessEssen, Germany

MahlerPlochingen, Germany

RIVASwiebodzin, Poland

SchmetzMenden, Germany

LOI BeijingChina

LOI ShanghaiChina

HuisenShanghai, China

LOI TianjinChina

LOI PolandTarnowskie Góry, Poland

LOI MoscowRussia

LOI-Wesman ThermprocessCalcutta, India

The full spectrum of heat treatment

LOI Thermprocess GmbHTenova Metals DivisionAm Lichtbogen 2945141 Essen, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)201 1891-1Fax: +49 (0)201 1891-321loi@tenova.comwww.tenova-furnaces.com

LeaDING IN FurNaces aND servIces FOr MeTaLs

Tenova LOI Thermprocess is the only supplier worldwide to offer the full range of technologies for practically any complex furnace plant. Products for which Tenova LOI Thermprocess is a clear technical leader and offers world-class technology account more than half of the company’s sales. Tenova LOI Thermprocess has achieved this position through continual growth.

In the spring of 2013 Tenova LOI Thermprocess acquired the companies Schmetz, Mahler and IVA in Germany, B.M.I. in France and Huisen in China. The companies are leading suppliers of heat treatment technologies and services for the aerospace, machine tool and automotive industries. The comprehensive product range includes both vacuum and controlled atmosphere continuous and non-continuous furnaces.

Tenova LOI Thermprocess is a part of the Italian Tenova. Tenova is a worldwide supplier of advanced technologies, products and services for the iron & steel and mining & minerals industries. It employs 4,800 people in 26 countries on 5 continents and has sales of US$ 2 billion.

THe FuLL raNGeOF HeaT TreaTMeNT

For more than 90 years now, the Tenova LOI Thermprocess has been supplying heat treatment facilities for metal processing plants in the world’s main industrial regions. Today, our com-panies• B.M.I. Fours Industriels, Lyon, France• IVA Industrieöfen, Dortmund, Germany• LOI Thermprocess, Essen, Germany• Mahler, Plochingen, Germany• RIVA, Swiebodzin, Poland• Schmetz, Menden, Germany• Huisen, Shanghai, Chinaare the leading providers of high-end heat treatment furnaces and services.

Tenova LOI Thermprocess has developed both vacuum and controlled atmosphere continuous and non-continuous furnaces to solve all types of treatment problems. The know-how that we have developed over decades, our strength in worldwide sales and services and our ongoing development efforts allow us to steadily strengthen our position on world markets. Our employees are dedicated experts in their fields. They will help you to derive maximum benefit from your materials and your heat treatment equipment.

Our main industry partners are:• Aerospace industry• Automotive industry• Heat treatment shops• Steel suppliers• Heat exchanger manufacturers• Tool manufacturers• Mould and die manufacturers• Sinter producers• Surface processing industry• Industrial and aircraft turbine manufacturers• Food industry• Medical industry

Our synergy effects bring benefits to customers:• Reliability and quality ensured by many decades of market presence for each company in the group• Well-founded expert advice based on our bundled process technology expertise• Innovative technology at reasonable prices• A complete range of different furnace types• Highly advanced control and documentation technology• Substantial innovation potential through development pools • World-wide market presence – world-wide service

HIGH QuaLITy servIce suppOrT

In order to provide our clients with optimum availability and productivity, we are committed to sharing our expertise with our clients and to providing help as rapidly as possible if a problem arises.

Via telephone diagnosis, e-mail or internet, including modem or Internet troubleshooting, we provide a rapid, cost-effective service throughout the world to ensure high furnace pro- ductivity and availability.Our highly qualified service team has extensive international experience and ensures that your plants function smoothly and profitably, no matter where they are located.

Our service program includes:• Commissioning of new furnace• Training of your staff• Modernization• Repair• Maintenance/preventive maintenance – maintenance contracts• Technical measurements / checks and calibration• Assistance via our hotline and our technical support• Optimisation of industrial processes and metallurgical technical support• Relocation of turnkey installations• Refurbishment of used plant and equipment• Repairs of all types, including work on equipment produced by other manufacturers• Computer-aided upgrading of existing furnaces• Spare parts and peripherals

Furnaces for the heat treatment of advanced materials for the steel, aluminium and automobile industries are offered by Tenova LOI Thermprocess and its subsidiaries based in Essen, Germany.

As the leading supplier worldwide, Tenova LOI Thermprocess develops, builds and supplies flexible state-of-the-art furnaces for the automobile industry and automotive component suppliers. Since 1953, LOI has been inst-rumental in the development of continuous carburizing furnace technology. We set standards for multi-track Pusher-type Furnaces for mass production parts, and our Rotary Hearth Furnace with zone separation is just as simple as it is revolutionary.

The product range of Tenova LOI Thermprocess for the automotive and component supply industry comprises:• Pusher-type and Rotary Hearth Furnaces for case hardening• Roller Hearth Furnaces for bright annealing of tubes and rods• H2-BAF, Continuous and Semi-continuous Roller Hearth Furnaces for spheroidization annealing of wire coils• Recrystallization annealing of LWC with inner purging in Roller Hearth Furnaces• Heat treatment of cast materials and motor laminations in special furnaces• Age Hardening Furnaces for aluminium structural parts

www.tenova-loi.de

Since 1945 Schmetz has been developing and optimising modern, environmentally friendly, energy saving vacuum furnaces. Today SCHMETZ is a world market leader in this field with a workforce of more than 70.

SCHMETZ systems, which have been developed con-tinuously, are used for treatment processes such as hardening, tempering, brazing, annealing and sintering. More than ever before, they set the standard for innovative vacuum furnace concepts.

Our engineers know that their many years of experience in furnace applications and associated metallurgical aspects as well as their understanding of the individual requirements of our customers lay the foundation for furnace plants with an optimum design in line with market requirements.

SCHMETZ products include:• Horizontal High Temperature Vacuum Furnaces• Two Chamber Vacuum Gas Quenching Furnaces• Vertical High Temperature Vacuum Furnaces

www.schmetz.de

IVA Industrieöfen GmbH with headquarters in Dortmund, Germany specialises in the development and production of furnace plants for almost any application. The range of furnaces supplied, which is characterised by very good economics and an especially interesting price-perfor-mance analysis, offers solutions for a wide variety of heat treatment processes.

Apart from producing furnace plants, we also develop new hardware and software systems and work on process optimization and development. Our range is rounded off by a comprehensive service portfolio, also for competitors’ systems.

The product portfolio includes:• Retort Type Chamber Furnaces• Sealed Quench Furnaces• Retort Type Multipurpose Chamber Furnaces• Box Type Tempering Furnaces• Pit Type / Vertical Retort Type Furnaces (with and without retort)• Rotary Drum Type Furnaces• Rotary Hearth Furnaces• Protective Gas Generators

www.iva-online.com

RIVA is fast-developing, medium size manufacturer of heat treatment equipment located in Swiebodzin, the capital of Polish heat treatment.

Our equipment is sturdy, designated for heavy industrial applications and reliable. For a certain group of products we are now the sole manufacturer in the whole group – like endogas generators or furnaces for annealing the tubular heaters. Another speciality of RIVA are tempering furnaces.

Our customers value us as a reliable partner for:• Batch Furnaces for carburizing/hardening• Shaft Furnaces• Endogenerators• Washing Machines• Quenching Baths• Forging Furnaces• Furnaces for annealing of tubular heating elements• Rotary Drum Furnaces

www.riva-furnaces.com

For almost 60 years Mahler in Plochingen, Germany has been developing, manufacturing and optimising continuous furnaces with and without protective gas for our customers. We use state-of-the-art manufacturing methods and our employees are highly qualified. Our top priority in development is to ensure very low energy and atmosphere gas consumption so that our furnaces are cost-effective and environmentally compatible in production.

Our engineers provide our customers with advice and active support for heat treatment and systems engineering for sintering, brazing, annealing and hardening in protective atmospheres. Our products:• High Temperature Sintering Furnaces• Conveyor Belt Sintering Furnace• Aluminium Sintering Furnaces• Steam Oxidation Furnaces• Mild Steel Applications• Stainless Steel App.: horizontal design• Stainless Steel App.: hump back design• IR brazing furnace• High Temperature Furnaces• Bogie Hearth Furnaces• Chamber Furnaces

www.mahlerofen.de

Shanghai Huisen-MTH is responsible for all the projects of IVA, Schmetz and B.M.I. in China. With strong R&D support from headquarters, advanced design ideas and quality control from Germany and France, combined with local manufacturing advantages and efficient service in China, Huisen-MTH is able to provide high level heat treatment furnaces, spare parts and after-sales service for domestic and worldwide markets.

Our main products include• Batch Type Furnaces• Pit Type Furnace• Pusher Type Furnaces• Vacuum Furnacesfor controlled atmosphere carburizing, carbonitriding, nitriding, nitrocarburizing, protective atmosphere hardening, normalizing, annealing, brazing, sintering and other heat treatment processes.

www.huisen-mth.com

Since it was established, our French company B.M.I., Lyon, has been designing and manufacturing industrial heat treatment furnaces. Since the early 1980s, it has specia-lised in the production of industrial vacuum furnaces for key heat and thermochemical treatment processes.

In addition to offering a standard range of industrial furnaces to our clients, B.M.I. offers the option of adapting its equipment to your needs in order to provide specific solutions for vacuum heat treatment based on techno-logies that have been widely tested in industry.

Thanks to our experience, our innovative capacity and many patents, we can supply high technology vacuum furnaces for the following treatment processes • Gas quenching• Oil quenching• Gas and oil quenching (combined furnace)• Brazing of aluminium and stainless steel• Sintering and Metal Injection Molding (MIM)• Tempering, annealing, magnetic annealing and stabilisation• Ageing and stress relieving• ALLCARB® low-pressure carburizing• ALLNIT® low-pressure nitriding• Plasma / ionic nitriding• Sub-zero *COOL PLUS* cryogenic treatment

www.bmi-fours.com