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German industrial furnace manufacturer
Ipsen International Holding is a German manufacturing company based in Kleve that develops, constructs and manufactures industrial furnaces. Its managing directors are Geoffrey Somary and Houman Khorram. As of 2022, the Ipsen Group had 1,000 employees worldwide and had manufacturing sites in Germany, United States, and India, with support centers in China und Japan.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Ipsen International Holding is a German manufacturing company based in Kleve that develops, constructs and manufactures industrial furnaces. Its managing directors are Geoffrey Somary and Houman Khorram.2
The company was founded as Ipsen Industries by Harold Ipsen (1915-1965) in Rockford, Illinois in 1948. The company expanded to its German manufacturing site in Kleve in 1957.
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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
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