Sustainability is no longer a trend – it’s shaping industrial innovation. With the GREENBAFx®, EBNER has developed an emission-free, energy-efficient solution that proves ecology and economy can go hand in hand. In this interview, Sascha Eppensteiner shares insights into the idea, technological challenges, and the future of green industrial processes.
In the world of industrial furnaces, a new revolution is underway. While hardware remains essential, the true power of a furnace now lies in its software. Furnaces today are no longer standalone products — they are intelligent, connected systems that rely on software for performance, efficiency, and long-term reliability.
The EBNER Engineering Department is the heart of our company, combining decades of experience with concentrated engineering expertise. Our design team brings around 4000 years of collective experience to the development of advanced heat treatment facilities designed for extreme thermal requirements. We specialize in designing and implementing tailor-made solutions – from the initial idea all the way through to the creation of detailed manufacturing drawings.
Spiking is a short and fast heat treatment process applied to solution annealed aluminum strip after quenching, creating specific mechanical properties in semi-finished or finished products.
Companies in the aluminum industry are finding it increasingly challenging to balance energy efficiency, environmental impact and operational safety. Gautschi has risen to meet this challenge by taking a long-term approach to technology, and can now present the VAREGAENVICOM® regenerative burner system: a system that has been specially developed for use in aluminum melting furnaces.
With “enineering excellence and precision metalworking” as its guiding principle, EQMS has established itself as a reliable partner for challenging metalworking jobs since it was founded in August, 2022. EQMS has been operating since May, 2023, and since 2025 it has been based at a new, state-of-the-art workshop in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. The company offers tailormade, individualized manufacturing solutions to international customers from many industrial sectors.
Key components for our heat treatment facilities are manufactured at the EBNER works in Leonding, Austria – everything from fan impellers and workbases to protypes. Our high-precision manufacturing is carried out by teams of specialists, who fulfill the highest quality criteria even as they meet the strictest deadlines.
Until now, conventional methods of measuring temperatures during a heat treatment process have been associated with extended interruptions in production and increased error frequencies. With the new and innovative temperature measurement system from EBNER, these problems belong to the past.
Metals processing industries are facing a steadilyrising demand for increased quality, efficiency and sustainability. This is especially true in the steel and copper base metals industries, where powerful descaling processes that make efficient use of resources are crucial for ensuring consistent product qualities and economical operation. To address this need, WRUtec employs a simple yet effective principle: pulsed water jets.
Since the beginning of this year, EBNER has been placing additional emphasis on a strategically vital business sector: the modernization and service of, as well as the supply of components for, heat treatment facilities that were not manufactured by EBNER itself.