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Germany's MIM Master: The development of continuous sintering furnaces at Cremer
Company visit: PIM International, Vol.3 No. 1 March 2009, pages 29-33, 1925 words
Ingenieurbüro Gammatec, Alleestr. 101, D-42853 Remscheid, Germany
Cremer Thermoprozessanlagen GmbH, Düren, Germany is a leading furnace supplier to the PM industry and market leader in continuous debinding and sintering furnaces for MIM. Dr. Georg Schlieper recently visited the manufacturing plant for Powder Injection Moulding International and spoke with Ingo Cremer, General Manager, about the company’s history, current situation and future outlook.
Introduction
In the far west of Germany, close to the border with Belgium and The Netherlands, is Düren, a small town with a history of industrial furnace production. The countryside is flat and dominated by sugar beet fields, but however the area has a long industrial heritage. The oldest building at Cremer Thermoprozessanlagen GmbH was formerly a repair shop for lorries from the nearby brown coal strip mines. A substantial part of Germany’s domestic energy resources, in the form of brown coal, lies here underneath the soil.
Herbert Cremer began to manufacture industrial furnaces in 1968, with the formation of the company Cremer Industrieofenbau. Previously trained as an electrician, Herbert went on to work for an industrial furnace manufacturing company where he made contacts in the then rapidly growing powder metallurgy (PM) industry.....
Further sections of this article include:
- Early furnace innovations
- The development of MIM Master
- The Cremer company today
- Innovations in belt and batch furnaces
Figures and Tables:
Fig. 1 Cremer factory on a bright winter day (Courtesy Georg Schlieper)
Fig. 2 MIM-Master debinding and sintering furnace for MIM components (Courtesy Cremer GmbH)
Fig. 3 MIM-Master schematic (Courtesy Cremer GmbH)
Fig. 4 Inside view of the walking-beam MIM-Master (courtesy: Cremer GmbH)
Fig. 5 Cross-section of a twin-runner walking-beam furnace (Courtesy Cremer GmbH)
Fig. 6 Ingo Cremer, President of the EPMA, in his office (Courtesy Georg Schlieper)
Fig. 7 MIM-Master under construction at Cremer (Courtesy Georg Schlieper)
Fig. 8 Assembly of control cabinets at Cremer (Courtesy Georg Schlieper)
Fig. 9 Batch furnace for MIM parts (Courtesy Cremer GmbH)
