Apr 10 2007
Spheric Technologies, Inc., marketer of patented high-temperature microwave powdered metal and ceramic processing systems, announced it will exhibit at PowderMet 2007, the international conference on powder metallurgy and particulate materials, May 13-16 in Denver, Colorado. The event will showcase the company’s SPHERIC/SYNO-THERM™ high-temperature microwave furnaces for powder metallurgists; educators and students; design, mechanical, and materials engineers; technicians; production personnel and management. PowderMet is sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation and APMI International.
“This is a prime opportunity for Spheric Technologies to introduce our full line of microwave furnaces to the $5 billion powder metal industry,” said chairman Joseph Hines. “We recently began distributing our product catalog (which is available for download at www.spherictech.com), and just this month installed a custom-built furnace at a Fortune 500 facility.” The company’s furnaces are manufactured by Syno-Therm Co., Ltd, China’s largest microwave furnace producer. Syno-Therm founder Dr. Peng Hu will join Spheric Technologies executives at the show, and at a series of meetings at prospective Mid-West customers’ facilities thereafter.
Surging interest in high-temperature microwave sintering is reflected in the presence on the PowderMet program of speakers from the Penn State Microwave Processing and Engineering Center, which owns a group of patents on microwave sintering technology. Those patents are licensed exclusively to Spheric Technologies, which offers sublicenses to furnace purchasers.
“Microwave sintering produces superior end products with up to 90 percent savings in processing time and energy,” Hines noted. “Widely used in India and the Far East, high-temperature microwave furnaces have not been available in the U.S. until now. As the only supplier of such furnaces, we anticipate substantial demand for SPHERIC/SYNO-THERM™ systems.”
Spheric Technologies offers a variety of advanced high-capacity SPHERIC/SYNO-THERM microwave furnaces, including continuous horizontal, continuous vertical and batch furnaces.