Talk:Vacuum furnace

Merger proposal
I believe that Vacuum oven and Vacuum furnace refer to the same thing, but am not an industrial chemist - please let me know if I'm wrong. In which case details of the differences can be added to the respective pages. Gonzonoir (talk) 12:22, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ovens are at substantially lower temperatures, so the technology is different. Both articles need expansion.DGG (talk) 00:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's fair enough. OK, I'll replace the merger templates with something more appropriate. Gonzonoir (talk) 11:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm... seems to have been merged anyway. I'm familiar with the use of a vacuum oven as something to dry things in in a laboratory setting - something distinctly different from a vacuum furnace. Allens (talk) 16:53, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Section "BMICRO" is an advertisement; excised.
I'm including the removed section here in case somebody can actually make something useful out of it.

BMICRO
Created in 1947, the BAUDASSE Frères Company became BMI Fours Industriels in 1977 after its takeover by the HIT Group and merger with the MARTIN Company, another furnace manufacturer in the Lyons region. Since its creation, BMI has been specialized in the design and manufacture of industrial furnaces for heat treatment.

In the early 1980s, BMI took a giant step by deciding to stop producing conventional furnaces and focusing only on the manufacture of industrial vacuum furnaces for the main thermal and thermochemical treatments.

With its 60 years of innovation, the BMI Fours Industriels Company benefits from many patents on both techniques and processes / vacuum treatments (low-pressure nitriding and carburizing).

After the takeover of the HIT Group by the BODYCOTE Group and the focusing of the activity on thermal treatment, the 3 furnaces manufacturers under the BODYCOTE corporate umbrella joined forces in 1999 to found the Metall Technologie Holding (MTH).

Thus created in 1999, the MTH Group includes the Companies B.M.I. Fours Industriels, MAHLER and SCHMETZ. It is committed to the development, sale and production of industrial furnaces based on the synergy and specialties of each of its entities.

Within its growth policy, the corporate managements backed by investors are dedicated to ensuring that the MTH Group will remain an essential player in the industrial heat treatment furnace field. In light of this driving force, the IVA Company joined the Group in 2005, and HUISEN and RIVA in 2008.

First born of the BMICRO vacuum furnace family, the BMICRO 20-30 completed in the early 2000s our thermal treatment furnace range: the smallest equipment of this range proposed then a useful treatment area of 450x450x450 mm (B83cT).

This small vacuum furnace that may also be defined as a laboratory furnace is well adapted to research centres and to the higher education and especially to the universities and other schools which are teaching heat treatment and/or material science. This compact furnace is also suitable to companies which have small production and low volumes of vacuum treatments (punches, coins, medals, watchmaking …)

To cope with the emergence of new customer typologies and new needs, the BMICRO 20-30 became an alternative to subcontracting (heat treat shops). And, it was an immediate success.

The latest newcomer to the BMICRO family, the BMICRO 30-45 fits perfectly between the BMICRO 20-30 and the B83cT. The BMICRO 30-45, whose first unit was sold in January 2007, immediately conquered its market : firms characterized by the production of small parts and the need to integrate vacuum heat treatment.

More than a “lab furnace”, this compact vacuum furnace offers, thanks to its useful volume, a real alternative to the heat treatment sub-contracting further to remain well adapted to R&D and to specific applications.

Even though the BMICRO 30-45 is already more "industry" oriented, the small BMICRO 20-30 pursues its career in laboratories, research centers, universities, coin and medal makers, and more.

http://www.bmicro-vacuum.com Proginoskes (talk) 18:19, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Splitting off vacuum oven
See discussion at top of page where it was concluded that vacuum ovens and vacuum furnaces are basically the same thing. Well for research chemists, a vacuum oven is a specific piece of apparatus that has nothing to do with brazing or working with metals. It is a device for heating a sample under an vacuum. Very useful for activating molecular sieves for example. So I was thinking of splitting vacuum oven off and explaining this use, but include a link to this industrial app as well as Freeze-drying. --Smokefoot (talk) 22:18, 11 June 2014 (UTC)