Created in 1947, BAUDASSE became Fours Industriels BMI in 1977 after being bought by the HIT group and its merger with MARTIN, another manufacturer of industrial furnaces in the Lyonnais region.

Since its creation, BMI has been designing and manufacturing industrial furnaces for heat treatment. Since the early 1980s, it has specialised in the manufacturing of industrial vacuum furnaces for the principal heat and thermochemical treatments.

In addition to offering a standard range of industrial furnaces to its clients, BMI offers the option of adapting its equipment to their needs in order to provide specific solutions for vacuum heat treatmentthat are based on technologies that are largely tested in the industrial environment.

Today, BMI has many patents and many technical specifications resulting from its experience in the development of innovative solutions, as much for the techniques (e.g. nitriding and low-pressure carburizing) as for its technical offer (e.g. rotary volute and inflatable seal).

Thanks to its experience, its innovative capacity and its many patents,BMI provides high technology vacuum furnaces for the following treatments

•  Gas quenching
•  Oil quenching
•  Gas and oil quenching (combined furnace)
•  Brazing of aluminium and stainless steel
•  Sintering and Metal Injection Molding (MIM)
•  Tempering, annealing, magnetic annealing and stabilisation
•  Ageing and stress relieving
•  ALLCARB® low-pressure carburizing
•  ALLNIT® low-pressure nitriding
•  Plasma / ionic nitriding
•  Cryogenic Treatment of the type sub-zero *COOL PLUS*

Beyond this range of standard furnaces, BMI offers the option of designing, implementing and manufacturing custom-made furnaces to meet specific requirements of some sectors (aeronautical and automobile industries, medical sector, steel and equipment manufacturers and heat treatment contractors).

For close to 30 years, our installations, standard or custom-made, are industrial references in the domain of vacuum heat and thermochemical treatments, in low-pressure or in plasma. They help to respond to the most demanding industrial applications:

•  Heat treatment plants
•  Suppliers of steel
•  Aeronautical industries
•  Automobile industry
•  Manufacturers of industrial and aeronautical turbines
•  Manufacturers of heat exchangers
•  Manufacturers of cutting tools
•  Manufacturers of moulds and dies
•  Manufacturers of sintering parts, including MIM technology
•  Surface treatment industry
•  Surgical equipment and medical industry
•  Food industry
•  Universities, laboratories and research centres
•  Manufacturers of coins and medals...

Fours Industriels BMI

65 rue du Ruisseau - BP 736
38297 Saint-Quentin-Fallavier FRANCE

Switchboard: +33 (0)4.74.94.34.44
Sales Department: +33 (0)4.74.94.68.90
Purchasing Department: +33 (0)4.74.94.34.44
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Fax: +33 (0)4.74.94.10.06