IVA Schmetz GmbH

The enthusiasm for innovative and reliable industrial furnace systems has been based in Menden for over 75 years. IVA Schmetz GmbH offers its customers from the aviation, medical technology, automotive, energy technology and many other sectors a wide range of industrial furnaces. The range of services relating to the company’s own and third-party systems goes far beyond the normal scope of a mechanical engineering company. As the market leader for vacuum and atmospheric furnaces, an innovative, reliable and future-oriented solution is found for every heat treatment requirement.

At the headquarters in Menden, industrial furnaces are developed, designed and built on an area of over 15,000 square meters, from where they find their way to customers in Germany and all over the world. One of the keys to the company’s success lies in the continuous further development of plant technology in order to meet the customer requirements of tomorrow. Starting in the 1950s with wire annealing systems for the domestic wire industry, the company now produces state-of-the-art hardening furnaces for the manufacture of gigamolds for the latest electric car models, among other things. The high-vacuum systems in the product portfolio are used for additively manufactured components for medical technology or for treating sensitive titanium materials in the aircraft industry.

In addition to traditional plant construction, IVA Schmetz GmbH offers its customers an extraordinarily comprehensive range of services and began developing its own product for the predictive maintenance of its own plants in addition to traditional services back in 2016. This increases plant safety and productivity, which is why the system is now being used by various customers across Europe.

Together with its two subsidiaries B.M.I. Fours lndustriels in France and Mahler GmbH in Plochingen, the IVA Schmetz Group is the right contact for all applications relating to heat treatment. To further expand its presence in North America, a sales company, IVA Schmetz North America Corp. was founded last year. At the same time, production capacities were expanded at the Menden site. The signs are pointing to growth.