Furnace Builder “Thrives” Over the Past 8 Years
Founded in 2015 by 3 individuals with a lifetime of experience in the heat treat industry, furnace builder “MEAPFORNI” of Fontanafredda, Italy has thrived over the years. The firm delivered it’s first furnace in 2017 and can now boast that it has installed over 100 furnaces in the past 8 years with sales in 2024 of just over 10 million euros ($10.8 million USD). The 23 employees can also brag about the fact that they have provided furnaces to commercial heat treaters such as “Bodycote” and “HÄRTHA Group” as well as captive heat treaters such as chain saw manufacturer “Stihl” of Sweden in countries as diverse as China, Italy, France and Mexico to name just a few.
Their product line is varied and covers most processes from batch carburizing lines and austemper furnaces to roller hearth furnaces, nitriding systems and even vacuum including vacuum carburizing (we should mention that the company has a partnership agreement with Japanese furnace builder Dowa).
The attached photos show one of the furnaces under construction during our visit, a low pressure nitriding furnace which is a fairly standard offering for the company.
We need to also mention that during our visit “Meapforni” showed us a very recent example of one of their installations, a sealed quench (batch IQ) line at a local gear manufacturer-the entire story with pictures can be found at “Heavy Equipment Component Supplier Invests in New Heat Treat Department”.
We thank the entire team at “Meapforni” for their hospitality during our March 13 visit, their kind consideration was much appreciated.
Did you like this article? Click here to subscribe to The Monty.
View our recent magazines and podcasts by clicking the following link. https://themonty.com/magazine/
Gord Montgomery, “The Monty Heat Treat News”, Sonia Pellizzon, CFO, “Meapforni”, Francesco Pieropan “Meapforni”
The “Meapforni” Team (we want to point out Mr. Vlad Kulbitski, Sales Manager, third from right)