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THERMPROCESS
THERMPROCESS Symposium erfüllen
will. Es findet in einem separaten
Bereich der Ausstellungshalle statt,
so dass Messebesucher die Möglichkeit
haben, spontan an den entsprechenden
Veranstaltungen teilzunehmen.
Das Programm läuft vom 13. bis
zum 15. Juni, die Teilnahme ist für alle
Besucher der THERMPROCESS, Gifa,
Metec und Newcast kostenlos.
Die wichtigsten Abnehmerländer deutscher
Industrieöfen, Brenner und Feuerungen
The most important customer countries for
German industrial furnaces, burners and
hearths
Den hohen Stellenwert, den die Industrieofenbranche
der Forschung
und Entwicklung beimisst, wird zusätzlich
von einer weiteren Veranstaltung
dokumentiert: Die Sonderschau
der Mitglieder und Forschungsinstitute
der Forschungsgemeinschaft
Industrieofenbau e.V. (FOGI) ist in
der gemeinsamen Forschungshalle
des Messequartetts zu sehen. Dem
Pavillon ist ein reges Interesse sicher,
schließlich wird der internationale
Wettbewerb auch in der Thermoprozesstechnik
vor allem durch die
erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Innovationen
entschieden.
Themenschwerpunkte des
THERMPROCESS-Symposiums und
der FOGI-Sonderschau:
• Beheizung
• Kühlen, Abschrecken und
Wärmerückgewinnung
• Dünnbrammenproduktions-,
Grobblechvergüte- und Bandanlagen
• Plasma, Diffusion, Wärmebehandlung
und Gasaufkohlung
• NE-Metalle-Verfahren
• MIM, CIM und Sinterverfahren
portance thanks to new materials or
new requirements.
The construction of industrial
furnaces and the associated services
have long demanded exceptional
high-tech know-how. In close collaboration
with their customers, highly
specialised manufacturers produce
tailor-made one-off products which
fulfil their purpose for the customer
in an optimum
way. THERM-
PROCESS will
display the full
scope of this
heterogeneous
branch, whose
suppliers serve
above all the
steel and iron
industry, the
automotive
economy, mechanicalengineering,
heat
generation, the glass, ceramics and
cement industries, and the chemical
and petrochemical sectors.
More than just plant construction
Different as their target branches are,
most thermal process suppliers have
one thing in common: the mainly medium-sized
companies involved have
long offered more than just plain plant
construction. The customer defines
his needs and the plant engineer then
sets out possible solution approaches.
After delivery, the industrial furnace
then has to be integrated into the customer’s
existing process chain, and
the supplier also sees to the training
of the operating personnel and to the
maintenance of the plant. Modern
industrial furnaces are nowadays optimally
integrated into the operator’s
production flow and distortion due to
tempering is thereby minimised. The
interaction with robots and storage
systems also works smoothly – the
thermal process branch has much
to do with the fact that production
processes in industry are constantly
becoming more efficient and more
flexible.
Integration into the customer’s IT
environment is also attended to: innovative
quality assurance systems doc-
ument the heating process data and
store them in the company’s master
data-processing system. The energy
efficiency of modern thermal process
plant is also impressive. For decades
companies have been working successfully
to keep cutting the energy
consumption of industrial furnaces,
and rising energy costs are keeping
the matter on the agenda. In recent
years a series of methods for reducing
energy consumption have been developed
to maturity, but these used not
to be economically viable. The rise in
energy prices is changing the trend
here. And the environment-friendliness
of the plants is also playing an
increasingly important role.
THERMPROCESS Symposium
The fair will highlight the performance
of the branch in every respect, a claim
which the THERMPROCESS Symposium
also intends to fulfil. This will take
place in a separate area of the exhibition
hall so that visitors will be able to
attend the corresponding events spontaneously.
The programme will run
from 13 to 15 June and participation
is free for all visitors to THERMPROC-
ESS, Gifa, Metec and Newcast.
The importance attributed by the
industrial furnace branch to research
and development is also attested by
another event: the special show of
the members and research institutes
of the Research Association for Industrial
Furnace Engineering e.V. (FOGI)
can be seen in the common research
hall of the fair quartet. The pavilion
will certainly attract lively interest,
since ultimately international competition
in thermal process technology
too will be decided by the successful
application of innovations.
Main subjects of the THERMPROCESS
Symposium and the FOGI special
show:
• heating
• cooling, quenching and heat recovery
• plant for thin slab production, heavy
sheet tempering and strip
• plasma, diffusion, heat treatment and
gas carburisation
• NF metal processes
• MIM, CIM and similar processes
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