The brand Carbolite is synonymous with high quality, leading heat technology in the design and manufacture of laboratory and industrial ovens and furnaces ranging from 30 °C to 3000 °C and sold globally to over 100 countries.
Founded in 1938, Carbolite began by pioneering in the manufacture of high-temperature combustion furnaces, marking a significant innovation in determining the sulphur content of fuels. The company experienced steady growth and was officially incorporated as a limited company in 1956. Despite a setback due to a fire in 1958, Carbolite demonstrated resilience by expanding its facilities and production capabilities, moving to larger premises and continually innovating its product range.
Carbolite’s journey through various ownerships by the Verder Group in 2012 marked a new chapter of strategic growth and expanded market reach. Just one year later the high temperature furnace company Gero was acquired to start the process of bringing Carbolite and Gero together in 2015. With the combined product lines the company strengthened its market position locally and globally and extended its product portfolio.
Carbolite has two manufacturing sites: One is based in Hope, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, where Carbolite manufactures laboratory and industrial ovens and furnaces up to 1800 °C. The temperatures of the ovens range from ambient to 700 °C; tube furnaces and chamber furnaces range from ambient to 1800 °C.
The second facility is located in Neuhausen, close to Stuttgart in southern Germany, where high temperature furnaces up to 3000 °C with a large variety of solutions for vacuum and modified atmospheres have been manufactured since 1982. Here we mainly manufacture furnaces which are heated and insulated with molybdenum, tungsten, and graphite.
In addition to the wide range of standard products, Carbolite is an expert in the development of customized equipment for complex heat treatment processes. Solving customers’ individual application requirements has given Carbolite an important place in aerospace, engineering, materials science, medical, bioscience and contract testing laboratories globally.
Carbolite offers products that not only adhere to Standards-compliant designs for ovens and furnaces, such as those required for Nadcap heat treatment processes (AMS2750), but also provides fully traceable certification for control, measurement, recording, and data acquisition devices.
Throughout its history, Carbolite has been at the forefront of technological advancement, consultancy, and customer service. With ambitious growth objectives set for the future, Carbolite continues to build on its legacy of innovation and excellence.
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100.000+ Installed products
85+ Years of experience
210+ Employees
90+ Worldwide partners
CARBOLITE is part of VERDER SCIENTIFIC, which is a division of the continuously growing VERDER group.
The SCIENTIFIC Division of the VERDER Group sets standards in high-tech equipment for quality control, research and development of solid matter. The fields of activity cover sample preparation of solids as well as analysis technologies.
The well-known Verder Scientific companies have served research institutions, analytical laboratories as well as manufacturing companies in quality control and process applications for many decades with ever more sophisticated and reliable products which offer the solution to their individual task.
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