ECM USA

About ECM USA

ECM USA operates from Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, positioned between Milwaukee and Chicago. The company serves as the American subsidiary of the France-based ECM Group, which consolidates thermal, gas, and atmosphere management expertise across multiple brands headquartered near Grenoble and Montpellier. ECM USA established its Synergy Center in Pleasant Prairie in 2018, housing a NANO vacuum furnace for on-site process development and metallurgical testing. The company designs and manufactures vacuum furnace systems using cold-wall, electric heating technology that eliminates open flames and enables higher temperature treatments with easy integration into machining lines. Its furnace portfolio includes the ECO double-chamber, JUMBO high-volume, FLEX modular, NANO small-batch, VESUVE nitriding/FNC, FULGURA multi-flow, TURQUOISE horizontal, LILLIPUT hearth-lift, CRISTAL bell, and PFTH vertical oil-quench models, with maximum work zones up to 1,500 mm and load capacities to 2,000 kg. Core processes cover low-pressure vacuum carburizing (LPC), carbonitriding, brazing, sintering, vacuum induction melting, vacuum arc remelting, tempering, vacuum purged gas nitriding, ferritic nitrocarburizing, and vapor-phase aluminizing. Through the ECM Greentech division, it supplies semiconductor wafer-processing furnaces for diffusion, oxidation, doping, and rapid thermal processing up to 300 mm wafers, plus silicon ingot casting and crystal growth equipment. ECM Robotics provides automation integration ranging from cleanroom wafer handling to heavy automotive loads exceeding 1,000 kg. ECM USA serves the automotive, aerospace, marine, agricultural, semiconductor, solar/photovoltaic, and general industrial heat-treat sectors, as well as university and R&D laboratories. Customers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico include EV transmission manufacturers using LPC, semiconductor fabs requiring wafer processing and SiC crystal growth, and solar producers casting PV silicon ingots. The Synergy Center allows prospective buyers to run low-pressure carburizing and high-pressure gas quenching trials with on-site CMM dimensional measurement, 3D microscopy, and hardness testing before committing to a system purchase. The company emphasizes that its cold-wall vacuum technology prevents inter-granular oxidation during carburizing, minimizes energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and improves metallurgical properties and process repeatability. Field service, installation, training, and aftermarket parts availability are positioned as integral to the offering, supported by the ECM Group's 50-plus years of engineering and design experience.

Equipment

• ECO Double Chamber furnace
• JUMBO High Volume furnace
• FLEX Modular furnace
• NANO Small Batch furnace
• VESUVE Nitriding/FNC furnace
• FULGURA Multi-Flow furnace
• TURQUOISE Horizontal furnace
• LILLIPUT Hearth Lift furnace
• CRISTAL Bell furnace
• PFTH Vertical Oil Quench furnace
• NANO vacuum furnace (Synergy Center)
• ECM Robotics automation systems
• Electrostatic chucks (eChucks/ESCs) via Semco Technologies
• UHP valves and panels via Flowlink
• DLI vaporizers and atomizers via Kemstream
• Crystal growth equipment via Cyberstar (Czochralski Pullers, LPE, Mirror furnaces, Bridgman, Kyropoulos, PVT furnaces)
• RTP/RTA systems via Annealsys/Jipelec

Company details

Location

Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

Company type

Manufacturer

Listed under

• Semiconductor Packaging in Wisconsin
• Electronics & Semiconductor Manufacturers in Wisconsin

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