Linn High Term GmbH, Eschenfelden
A wide-ranging and market-making portfolio of products: manufacturing-use kilns, crystal cultivation facilities, large-sized microwave furnaces and much more. All developed by Linn High Therm GmbH, a company based in Eschenfelden, a town in Bavaria’s Upper Palatinate region.
It wasn’t what his father had planned for him, but it was what Horst Linn had set his mind on doing—starting up his own company. Made in 1969, his decision has paid off handsomely. Linn High Term started off as a specialist for the development of electrically-heated kilns used in laboratories and high-temperature applications and of inductively-heated smelting and pouring facilities used in laboratories, other research environments, and in manufacturing. By 1977, the company’s growth led it to look for a new base of manufacturing. Linn’s choice: the town of Eschenfelden in Bavaria’s northeastern Upper Palatinate region. In 1979, Linn launched the development of what turned out to be a path-blazing generation of kilns.
Linn came up with a unique process of precision-casting titanium based upon the lost-wax technique. This technology secured the company its first order from a space program. It was from the Tempus/Texus one and it was for a flash smelting facility for the D-1 Spacelab. The successful completion of this challenging commission caused Horst Linn and his team to receive a few years later a second commission. It was with Dornier and was for the Tempus IML 2. The highpoint of Linn High Therm’s activities in space came in 1993. It was a commission for a crystal cultivation facility to be made entirely out of titanium and capable of operating in space. The facility was created by a consortium comprised of Linn, Freiberg’s Academy of Mining Sciences, the universities of Halle and Erlangen, and the Rossendorf Research Center in Saxony.
Linn’s latest innovation is a microwave-based continuous belt drier. It dries such non-metallic materials as corks used in wine bottles. Displaying his legendary sense for new business, Horst Linn has come up with another application for this large-sized furnace. Working with the Veszprém, Hungary-based Pannon University and with a grain mill also based in that country, Linn High Therm has created a technology drastically slashing the amount of energy consuming in the rapid cooking of rice.