Ipsen, Kleve, Germany
October 28th, 2019 as part of the “Monday Morning Briefing” we had some notes about our recent visit to furnace manufacturer Ipsen at their headquarters in Kleve, Germany. As a follow up to that visit we have these additional photos along with a caption for each, describing in a bit more details what we are looking at.
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Ipsen Kleve, Germany has an in house welding department for manufacturing vacuum furnace housings and pressure vessels up to 20 bar abs.
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Another high vacuum furnace with stainless steel furnace housing for brazing. This furnace will be equipped with a molybdenum hot zone and turbo- molecular vacuum pumps. Installation will be in a clean room and the ultimate vacuum is in the range of 10-7 mbar/ torr. Left to right; Oliver Obladen, Michael Simon, Dr. Bora Özkan
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Left to right; Oliver Obladen, Michael Simon, Dr. Bora Özkan standing in front of a continuous 3- Chamber High Vacuum Furnace. This furnace is equipped with a pre- chamber (1), inner doors, internal loading systems, heating chamber (2) and cooling chamber (3). During operation the gas-/ fan cooling takes place in the cold cooling chamber and the hot zone stays on temperature.
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