In today’s News from Abroad installment, we highlight changes in personnel, production lines, and facilities throughout the industry, including the launch of a new refractory technology and an aerospace manufacturer updating its operations with a batch oven. Read more about these updates as well as those a thermal processing company is taking affect its management line-up and its facilities footprint.
Heat Treat Today partners with two international publications to deliver the latest news, tech tips, and cutting-edge articles that will serve our audience — manufacturers with in-house heat treat. Furnaces International, a Quartz Business Media publication, primarily serves the English-speaking globe, and heat-processing, a Vulkan-Verlag GmbHa publication, serves mostly the European and Asian heat treat markets.
Aerospace Manufacturer Adds Modern Batch Oven Solution
“International Thermal Systems (ITS) has successfully partnered with an aerospace company to address significant operational challenges by designing and delivering a customized batch oven solution. The collaboration highlights ITS’s commitment to safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. The aerospace company faced significant challenges with their existing batch oven…
International Thermal Systems aimed to address these challenges by replacing the unsafe, outdated batch oven with a safer and more modern alternative. Their goal was to improve usability by incorporating updated controls and optimizing the loading and unloading processes… [ITS] designed and installed a state-of-the-art batch oven featuring melting wax technology to optimize production processes. Advanced control systems were integrated to enhance operational ease and precision.”
READ MORE: “International Thermal Systems Enhances Aerospace Manufacturing with Custom Batch Oven Solution” at heat-processing.com.
Refractory Technology Launched To Address Kiln Interruptions
“Calderys is pleased to announce the launch of CALDE® FD (Fast Dry), a refractory technology that can be used in many industrial applications and offers superior efficiency and reliability for all types of industrial furnaces. Calderys is constantly striving to improve its processes in order to offer its customers the best possible solutions. In the field of cementitious refractory concretes, the drying out of the furnaces is a critical challenge due to its duration, regardless of the industrial process. Once the refractory lining has been installed, the kilns are unusable for up to several days to allow drying out, which inevitably leads to an interruption in operations.
Calderys is directly addressing this by expanding its product offering with the CALDE® FD (Fast Dry) range. This solution has been designed to integrate seamlessly into the Calderys product range. Crucially, the CALDE® FD products offer customers increased reliability, reduced downtime, streamlined processes and improvements in CO2 reduction. This expanded product range has been developed in line with Calderys’ ESG objectives to support customers with their energy transition requirements.”
READ MORE: “Calderys Launches an Expanded Range of Fast Dry Refractory Solutions To Improve the Drying of Industrial Furnaces“ at heat-processing.com
AICHELIN Makes Changes in Management and Site Operations
“Philipp Krenn, Managing Director of AICHELIN Ges.m.b.H. in Austria, has taken over the management of the German AICHELIN Service GmbH in Ludwigsburg on February 1, 2025. The company is the leading company within the AICHELIN Group for all services for thermal processing systems… Philipp Krenn will intensify the cooperation between the locations in Austria and Germany.
At the same time, the AICHELIN Group has decided to discontinue the business operations of its Slovenian subsidiary Bosio d.o.o. and to have all products supplied by Aichelin Ges.m.b.H (Austria) in the future. Production will not be affected and will continue to take place at the AICHELIN Assembly Center Europe (AICHELIN ACE d.o.o.) in Celje, Slovenia, which [opened] in 2023… The decision to take this step is the result of intensive analyses and a strategic adjustment to the current economic conditions in Europe.”
READ MORE: “AICHELIN Group Strengthens European Business with Future-Oriented Structure“ at heat-processing.com
