Ipsen International Holding

Ipsen International Holding GmbH of Kleve, Germany develops, constructs and manufactures industrial furnaces. Its managing directors are Geoffrey Somary and Houman Khorram.



The Ipsen Group has 1,000 employees worldwide and has manufacturing sites in Germany, United States, and India, with support centers in China und Japan. It also has sales/service representation in 34 other countries.

History
Harold Ipsen (1915-1965) founded Ipsen Industries in Rockford, Illinois in 1948. The company expanded to its German manufacturing site in Kleve in 1957.

Products
Ipsen's industrial furnaces are used for hardening steel and other metals in different processes to satisfy completely the high-quality requirements of engines, gears, generating plant manufacturing and other industrial parts and equipment.

Ipsen has customers in medical technology and engineering, wind power generation, aviation, food, automotive, aerospace, tool manufacturing, mechanical engineering and hardening shops.

Heat treatment is a crucial, very cost-effective process to considerably improve the structural conditions and consequently the resilience of metals, in particular to steel and titanium alloys. Ipsen's industrial furnaces - vacuum furnaces, atmosphere furnaces and pusher-type furnaces - are used for the following heat treatment processes: hardening, quenching, tempering, carburization, carbon nitriding, nitro carburization, bright tempering, annealing, vacuum brazing, temperature brazing, plasma nitriding