BMI Fours Industriels: 60 years of innovation.
HOME COMPANY NEWS EXHIBITIONS PRODUCTS SERVICE SPARE PARTS SPECIAL OFFERS COMPANY-GROUP/MTH CONTACT DOWNLOAD IMPRINT	We about us | History | Quality BMI Fours Industriels: 60 years of innovation. Origin Set up in 1947, BAUDASSE Frères became BMI Fours Industriels in 1977 following its take-over by the HIT group and merger with MARTIN, another industrial furnace manufacturer in the Lyon region. Since its creation, BMI Fours Industriels has specialised in the design and manufacture of industrial furnaces for heat treatment. The beginning of the '80s was marked by the decision to stop production of all types of conventional furnaces and to concentrate solely on the manufacture of industrial vacuum furnaces for the main heat and thermochemical treatments. As a result of 60 years of innovation, BMI Fours Industriels has several patents concerning both technique and processes such as low pressure nitriding and low pressure carburizing. Following the takeover of the HIT group by the BODYCOTE group and the refocusing of the activity on heat treatments, the 3 furnaces manufacturers then belonging to BODYCOTE joined forces in 1999 to form Metall Technologie Holding (MTH). Today Set up in 1999, MTH comprises B.M.I. Fours Industriels, MAHLER and SCHMETZ. The MTH group is involved in the development, manufacture and sale of industrial furnaces, aided by the synergy between the specialisations of each of its members. As part of an external growth policy, the original directors, supported by financial investors, set up the current management partnership which is aiming to establish the MTH group as a major player for heat treatment industrial furnaces. This dynamic led to IVA joining the group in 2005. IVA contributes its expertise in the design of atmospheric furnaces and completes the supply of the group, already comprehensive with ranges of vacuum furnaces from BMI and SCHMETZ and continuous furnaces from MAHLER.	©B.M.I. 2008