Thermcraft Competitors

Harper International is a global leader in complete thermal processing solutions and technical services for the production of advanced materials, including Furnaces, Kilns, Calciners, and Ovens. Harper designs systems from research scale to full production line operations, with a focus on processing materials at high temperatures from 500 to 3000°C and in non-ambient atmospheres. Our expertise is in the scale up and production of advanced materials such as carbon fiber, ceramic and metal powders, nano materials, nuclear materials, and carbon materials. Our toolbox of systems includes Slot, Rotary, Pusher Tunnel, Belt Conveyor, Vertical Conveyor, Box, Elevator, and Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) furnaces, and well as Oxidation Ovens for carbon fiber. Our process expertise is unparalleled, supported by our robust engineering focus and PhD staff, and includes calcination, graphitization, carburization, controlled oxidation, oxide reduction, purification, pyrolysis, drying, reduction, solid-solid reaction, gas-solid reaction, metalizing, debinding, waste remediation and more. Harper also offers services to support our customers from beginning to end, with our Ignite™ and Pulse™ programs. Through Ignite™, Harper offers customers our depth and breadth of experience in thermal processing to analyze, optimize and scale up their material production. This extends to access to a number of research and piloting facilities with multiple furnaces and kilns to help develop the most efficient and effective regime to meet their goal, as well as tolling services as an intermediary step during process development. With Pulse™, we are the customers' one-call for technical support, domestic and overseas field service, proactive preventative maintenance programs, replacement parts, and engineered solutions for a broad spectrum of your service and maintenance requirements for Harper furnaces. For a list of current career opportunities: www.careersatharper.com

Buehler, a division of Illinois Tool Works (ITW), is a leading manufacturer of scientific equipment and supplies for use in material analysis, quality control, #materialography, #metallography, #metallurgy and #petrography . Since 1936, Buehler has established sales, manufacturing and laboratory services located throughout North America, Europe and Asia. In 2020, we celebrate the 100 Year Anniversary of our world-class Wilson hardness product line that encompasses the early brands of #hardness testing : Reicherter, Wolpert, Precidur and Wilson. Today Buehler continues the long history of providing market-leading technology to support our customers in their sample preparation and microstructure material analysis applications through customer-backed innovations. With offices in 9 countries, employing approximately 275 employees, Buehler creates the infrastructure to serve the diverse needs of our customers. These needs may include sample preparation, hardness measurement, heat treatment state, investigation of welded joints, thermal coating evaluation, layer thickness measurement and more. Worldwide, the Buehler employees and operations are committed to delivering quality and environmentally responsible products guided by ISO 9001 Quality Management Principles and ISO 14001 Environmental Managements Systems. Buehler products and analysis methods are applied in Quality Control, Inspection, Research & Development, at laboratories across numerous industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Electronics, Energy, Medical, and Primary Metals. As a leading provider of metallographic laboratory equipment, consumables along with hardness testers, hardness software and test blocks, Buehler delivers innovative solutions that provide value to our customers with focus on creating consistent, repeatable results. Our consumables are available through worldwide distributors and for direct markets in the USA online at shop.buehler.com . https://www.buehler.com/videos

Despatch is a member of ITW EAE, a division of Illinois Tools Works, Inc., and has specialized in thermal processing for over 100 years and is actively using this technical expertise to provide innovative solutions to critical applications in a broad range of markets and cutting edge technology worldwide. Thermal processing of materials is a critical step in manufacturing quality products. The world’s top manufacturers rely on Despatch for annealing, curing, bonding, drying, aging and heat treating of electronics, polymers, composites, rubber, textiles, ceramics and aluminum. Despatch manufactures small laboratory ovens as well as large batch ovens and conveyor ovens for complex, high-volume production – ovens that deliver consistent, reliable results. For more than 40 years, carbon fiber manufacturers have utilized our world-leading oxidation technology to produce the highest quality and most uniform fiber. Despatch provides high quality composite curing and aluminum solution heat treating systems to the demanding automotive and aerospace industries. Despatch Industries is the leading provider of thermal and processing equipment for advanced photovoltaic production, including the world’s bestselling metallization firing furnace. Our extensive experience in engineering and manufacturing is backed by our international service and support network. We are truly a global partner that responds locally.