INO Automation, together with partners, delivered, installed and commissioned the thermo-cooling solution at Falcon Sapphire in Ventspils, Latvia — one of the few monocrystalline sapphire growers in Europe.
Falcon Sapphire is a European precision-materials company that grows and processes monocrystalline sapphire. Its plant is in Ventspils, Latvia, and the whole process — from boule growth to cutting — happens in-house. The sapphire goes into optics and photonics, aerospace, medical technology, industrial lasers, electronics and watch glass.
Sapphire is grown by the Kyropoulos method — the crystal is slowly pulled from an alumina melt. The thermal regime is decisive: temperature fluctuations directly affect crystal quality and internal stress. That means the cooling loop has to run stably and predictably, not “roughly”.
Задача была поддерживать точную температуру и считывать данные с установки, чтобы за процессом можно было следить и управлять, а не только констатировать постфактум.
INO Automation, together with partners, delivered, installed and commissioned an SMC HRS400 thermo-chiller with 38 kW of cooling capacity in the process loop and connected its data output, so temperature values are available continuously.
Проект выполнен в четыре этапа — от поставки компонентов до сдачи установки в рабочем режиме:
A sapphire boule grows over many hours. If the thermal regime drifts, you don’t lose one part — you lose a whole cycle. That makes cooling not a support system here, but part of process quality itself.
Monocrystalline sapphire goes into optics, LED and semiconductor manufacturing, industrial lasers and watch glass — anywhere a hard, transparent, chemically resistant material is needed. Precise industrial cooling and process temperature stabilisation are exactly what make that material repeatably high-quality.
Охлаждение, терморегулирование, подготовка воздуха — пришлите описание или фото с оборудования.
INO Automation с помощью партнёров поставила, установила и запустила решение термоохлаждения прямо на объекте.
It depends on furnace power and process. This project used a 38 kW thermo-chiller. Exact capacity is sized from the heat load — send us the unit’s data and we’ll calculate it.
A crystal-growth method where monocrystalline sapphire is slowly pulled from molten alumina. Precise, stable temperature throughout the cycle is decisive for crystal quality.
Да. В этом проекте с помощью партнёров мы поставили, установили и запустили всё решение охлаждения. Можем покрыть от одного компонента до всей системы.
В Вентспилсе, Латвия — один из немногих производителей монокристаллического сапфира в Европе.