Thermal Product Solutions increases capabilities

October 1, 2004

at its Riverside operation

PORTAGE, MI - October 1, 2004 - Thermal Product Solutions today announced that it will expand the manufacturing at its Lindberg/MPH facility in Riverside, Michigan. Over the next several months, the company will transfer the manufacturing of its heat treat processing equipment from its Lindberg operation in Watertown, Wisconsin to the Lindberg/MPH facility.

The current facility in Riverside is 60,000 square feet and houses the production of Lindberg/MPH brand non-ferrous melting, holding and metal transfer products. When the transfer is complete, the operation will manufacture the company’s complete line of heat treat equipment including: Integral-Quench Pacemakers, Pit, Box, Conveyor, Walking Beam, Pusher, and Kiln furnaces, as well as the current Lindberg/MPH products. All the support operations for heat-treat products including sales, engineering, service and parts will remain in Watertown, Wisconsin.

Thermal Product Solutions, a unit of SPX Corporation is a long established leader of thermal processing and test solutions. The combined product lines manufactured by TPS feature:

  • Blue M - industrial ovens and environmental test equipment
  • Gruenberg - custom industrial ovens and pharmaceutical sterilizers/dryers
  • Lindberg - heat treat industrial furnaces
  • Lindberg/MPH - non-ferrous melting equipment/launder systems
  • Tenney/Lunaire - environmental chambers and rooms, stability and shelf life products
  • Tiros – automated vertical and inline thermal systems and solutions.

More information about TPS is available on its website at www.thermalproductsolutions.com

SPX Corporation is a global provider of technical products and systems, industrial products and services, flow technology, cooling technologies and services, and service solutions. The Internet address for SPX Corporation's home page is www.spx.com.