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July 31, 2024

Free Webinar – Plate Heat Exchangers in Oil & Gas Industry

Free Online Webinar – Plate Heat Exchangers in Oil & Gas Industry   Join us for an exclusive webinar on 28 August, 2024, as we explore Plate Heat Exchangers in Oil & Gas Industry. Led by industry experts, this session will explore the essential functions of plate heat exchangers (PHE) in the oil and gas

April 30, 2024

Free Webinar – Enhancing Power Plant Efficiency with Plate Heat Exchangers

Free Online Webinar – Enhancing Power Plant Efficiency with Plate Heat Exchangers   Join us for an exclusive webinar on May 17, 2024, as we explore Enhancing Power Plant Efficiency with Plate Heat Exchangers. Led by industry experts, this session will cover the essential role of plate heat exchangers (PHE) in optimizing power plant performance.

November 2, 2023

HFM Plate Heat Exchanger Revolutionize the Mining Industry: Enhancing Efficiency and Sustainability

According to the Mining Energy Consumption Report 2021, the mining industry, which plays a crucial role in providing the metals essential to modern economies, is consuming around 3.5% of the world’s energy.The metals extracted by mining are vital in enabling the worldwide shift towards low-carbon infrastructure. However, without intervention, the mining industry’s energy consumption is

August 31, 2023

HFM Welded Plate Heat Exchanger: Empowering Hydrogen Production for a Sustainable Future

According to Peng, the Deputy Director of the Beijing Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, Beijing aims to become a globally influential city in the hydrogen energy industry during the “Fourteenth Five Year Plan” period. The city plans to leverage its strengths in gathering scientific and technological resources as well as human resources. This will

February 14, 2023

The Environmental Impact of Fossil-fuelled Engines

International trade by sea has long been a key part of the world economy and approximately 90% of traded commodities are reliant on shipping. Once wind-propelled in the days of sail, the current generation of ships now heavily rely on fossil fuels. Fossil fuel propulsion contributes to global warming with carbon emissions approximating 940 MtCO2e

December 8, 2022

HFM eShop Service Upgrade

At the end of 2022, China’s economy recovery and boosting confidence have been greatly inspired by the recent control changes on COVID-19. The global supply chain efficiency will be restored soon. In the time of energy crisis, efficiency is not merely in the industrial processing but also in the digital production plan and logistics preplan.

September 30, 2022

The Solution for Energy Crisis is More Fossil Fuels?

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Sept 29 – If there is one thing the oil and coal industries can agree upon, it’s that the solution to the current global energy crisis is more fossil fuels. This was the consistent message from the two industries’ biggest annual gatherings in Asia, held this week in Singapore for oil and gas,

September 28, 2022

A New Method of Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis

Ammonia is a carbon-neutral energy carrier and potential transportation fuel applied extensively in fertilizers, plastics, and explosives. Conventional ammonia synthesis methods rely primarily on the high-temperature and high-pressure Haber–Bosch process, which leads to considerable energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, developing appropriate solutions for achieving high-efficiency, low-energy, low-emission, and sustainable ammonia production under benign

September 25, 2022

Hydrogen Energy Will Be Incorporated Into China’s Terminal Energy System

In recent years, with the rapid development of hydrogen energy industry and technological progress, the promotion of hydrogen energy application is also accelerating. Li Xianguo, academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and chairman of the Fuel Cell Branch of the International Hydrogen Energy Association, pointed out that at present, fuel cell technology has developed

September 23, 2022

HFM PHE Service in ZhangBei Data Centre

This a plate heat exchanger centre cooler unit in Zhangbei Cloud Data Centre. Dissembling, cleaning and reassembling just cost 1 day by HFM PHE service team. The Beijing Tianjin Hebei region is an important economic development city cluster in China. Rapid urban construction and development have increasingly highlighted the demand for large-scale data centers, and

September 21, 2022

Transform Sewage and Sludge to Biosolids

For more than four decades, biosolids have been applied to land and studied by researchers for many useful purposes- MADISON, Wis.. Biosolids are a product of the wastewater treatment process. Yes, that means sewage. However, the sewage is treated carefully to ensure it has beneficial properties and is not harmful. Biosolids are produced by separating

September 21, 2022

Thermal Analysis of Polymers

Thermal and thermomechanical analysis are essential in the characterization and study of modern polymer materials. This handbook shows how thermal analysis techniques may be used to study the behaviour of thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers to provide data on physical properties, transitions, aging, the effect of fillers and additives, and the effect of production techniques.  

September 19, 2022

Worlwide Collaboration Fusion Project ITER Has Been Appointed a New Chief

Pietro Barabaschi, who will take over as director-general of ITER in October, plans to improve integration between collaborating agencies. Barabaschi is currently acting director of Fusion for Energy, the organization responsible for Europe’s ITER contribution, and will take over as ITER’s director general in October. He replaces Eisuke Tada, who has served as interim director-general

September 19, 2022

The History of Franch Nuclear Power Development

Today’s nuclear power infrastructure was born out of the French government’s efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to develop a nuclear bomb during the cold war, and so a lot of resources were poured into nuclear research. That created the expertise, then in the 1970s the oil-price shock turned attentions towards nuclear-power development. Countries began

September 16, 2022

Why France’s nuclear industry faces uncertainty

No other country produces more nuclear power per capita. But climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and French politics could change that. Around 70% of French electricity is derived from the splitting of atoms, and no other country produces more nuclear power per capita. More than a means of keeping the lights on, France’s prowess

September 15, 2022

Open-Pored Aluminum Foam for Vacuum Plates and Heat Exchangers

Porous aluminum is produced by casting with salt. This technology provides a unique structure of porous metal. The structure of porous aluminum and the structure of known sintered metals are complementary. The pores in the sintered metal correspond to those in the porous aluminum and vice versa. Theoretically, the minimum porosity of sintered metals is

September 14, 2022

Solar power generation hits EU record in energy crisis

A new peak for output comes amid a squeeze on gas, hydropower and nuclear supplies Solar power generation reached a new record in the EU over the summer months as supplies from gas, hydropower and nuclear were all squeezed during the energy crisis. Sunny weather across the continent and a boost in solar installations contributed

June 27, 2022

Building District Central Heating in Winter

The energy crisis in Euro draws more attention. Civil utilization of power and heating in winter calls for more efficient solution for heat recovery systems. Heat pump and heat exchanger unit are applied in the new advanced heating system to achieve thermal efficiency over long-distance transmission. The plate heat exchanger operates in high-pressure working conditions

April 27, 2022

New arrivals on HFM eShop!

With the development of information technology, HFM is keeping pace with the changes to meet the changing environments of B2B industry. HFM eShop, as an attempt moving into the field of B2B e-commerce, has been constantly improving since its launch, and we offer the professional service and all-brand products we have been providing to our customers, with easier online viewing and shopping with more benefits. Recently we have updated our international and U.S. sites with a wide range of high-quality products, including plates, gaskets, brazed plate heat exchangers and gasketed plate heat exchangers for all applications, welcome to

January 13, 2022

Onboard Service for Marine

This week, HFM service engineers went to do the plate heat exchanger service for vessel MSC Eloise on board. There are three  AX30 units, which were made in 1990. Those units are operated as lube oil cooler and central cooling cooler. The last time of service was many years ago. This vessel needs complete maintenance

January 10, 2022

Plate Heat Exchanger in Honey Pasteurization

Honey can be consumed pasteurized or not. Honey is low in humidity and high in acidity, which means that bacteria cannot survive Pasteurizing honey is different from pasteurizing milk or other dairy products, and it’s done for very different reasons. Because of its low moisture content and high acidity, bacteria and other harmful organisms cannot

December 10, 2021

Understand More about PHE for Vessels

In the engine room of a vessel, you may find plate heat exchangers installed with fixed welded feet on the floor. The wave in the sea makes the whole ship body swing in rising and falling. The nuts of the plate heat exchanger may leap easily out of their position in some strong vibration environment.

November 25, 2021

Steel Making Plant Service Day

The global raw material supply issue has gained more and more attention from national industry development community leaders. On the one hand, manufacturers are bearing the high-cost price and outstanding logistic delay. The period of complete production lifespan possibly got extended from one month to double times or even worse for a specific industry in

November 18, 2021

Plate Heat Exchanger for IDC Service

Across the world, there are over hundreds of middle to large scale data centers. The cool environmental temperature and efficient heat extraction in the equipment operating room are key factors of the facility requirement. The central air conditioning system combined with high load PHE efficiency makes the most common solution for the current IDC cooling

November 8, 2021

Plate Heat Exchanger for Lithium Industry

As the demand for renewable energy continues to grow globally, lithium，as a raw material for new energy batteries has now been regarded as a fundamental strategic mineral resource for economic development in various countries. It exists in seawater and is usually obtained from saltwater. Lithium metal is electrolytically separated from a mixture of lithium chloride

November 1, 2021

Mining Cost Control Through PHE

The raw material prices got raised at a crazy level in 2021 globally. The mining industry had a strong trend and led the production growth in many countries. Many mining interpreters seek the optimized solution for the plate heat exchanger maintenance to control the operational cost on equipment and enlarge the profit margin. In Africa,

October 29, 2021

Marine Next Stop

HFM all-brand plate heat exchanger service alliance for 2022 new enrollment starts- Marine Next Stop! With over 20 years of experience in plate heat exchanger design, manufacturing and services, HFM is a one-stop international plate heat exchanger supplier to global industrial clients. From 2017, HFM global service alliance take in shape with supports of our

October 26, 2021

Cost Reduction for LNG Plants

The global energy shortage this winter brings the power, oil and gas prices a considerable rise. On the one hand, LNG plants and petroleum factories keep the productivity under the circumstances of COVID-19. On the other hand, they need to depress the operation cost, firstly from some none-processing equipment like plate heat exchangers. HFM, in

October 18, 2021

Marine Plate Coolers

The marine plate coolers are installed in the engine room to cool down the lube oil and in the loop of freshwater generation. To resist the corrosion of seawater, the metal plates are made of Gr1 titanium which is the high value of a plate cooler. HFM supports high-quality raw material manufactured plate heat exchangers

October 11, 2021

Plate Heat Exchanger For Yeast Application

HFM received feedback from a yeast production factory in South America recently. They ran an equipment operation audit test, which was very successful. From 2017, HFM continually supplied complete plate heat exchanger units to cool down the bread/baker yeast with water for this client and provided high-quality all-brand plate heat exchanger replacement spares to keep

September 28, 2021

BPHE for HVAC

In the HVAC and Refrigeration, the brazed plate heat exchanger deals with the water and refrigerant in the closed-loop system. The BPHE for HVAC is applied as evaporator and condenser and constructed with a brazed plate pack to form the efficient heat transfer area. The commonly used refrigerant are R134A, R407C, R410A. HFM supplies the

September 26, 2021

IOT in PHE

IoT technology aims to provide predictable performance alarm of PHE’s downtime through monitoring the real-time temperatures and flow rates. IOT in PHE is designed to be installed with the plate heat exchanger or valve in the piping system, which has good temperature sensitivity or flow rate change. For the site location in basement or outdoor,

September 22, 2021

PHE Offloading Your Burden

The global machinery manufacturing industry meet the challenge of raw material price rising and global cargo vessel sea freight pressure. In the processing line of the plants, HFM helps the manufacturers to lower the operation cost of the plate heat exchanger maintenance. The all-brand plate heat exchanger service experience and replacement spare parts supply are

September 17, 2021

Site Service

The Middle-Autumn Festival is coming. Before the holiday season, our site service team went to the client factory to do the regular maintenance job. In this site service, the plate heat exchanger is used to cool down the waste fermented liquid before entering into the reaction tank in the system. After some time’s operating, particles

September 15, 2021

Solar Energy Utilization：Plate Heat Exchanger Application

Solar energy utilization is now a hot topic in global energy consumption and development. Wind and solar are the most popular sort of clean nature energy in most countries of new energy development plan. Solar panel factories are constructed worldwide to support this form of new clean energy utilization of turning sunlight into energy. HFM

September 9, 2021

Plate Heat Exchanger On Waste Utilization

The world is turning to a cleaner and more eco-friendly one now. New energy development is one way to replace the more polutionious energy, and plate heat exchanger on waste utilization is also a way to save energy. Waste gas, wastewater, and waste materials are the main components of the waste world. Plate heat exchangers

September 7, 2021

Economical and Efficient Solution For Fertilizer Manufacturing

The world is conquering food poverty and water impurity to offer a safe and clean grow-up environment. One way is utilizing the fertilizer to nurture the soil and further enhance the production capacity of earth crops. The most common fertilizer ingredient is nitrogen fertilizer. In the process of fertilizer manufacturing, special metal plates to resist

September 2, 2021

HFM global distribution network are set up for our partners.

The digitalization in industrial equipment supply world widely enter into a high accelerated time, not only in the manufacturing stage, but also in the after-sales service stage. The predictable maintenance preparation for the user of plate heat exchanger is a way to shorten the downtime. Meanwhile the global purchase delayed by the logistics problem of

August 30, 2021

Qualified sanitary plate heat exchangers supply for Processing Equipment

HFM engineering service for most industrial equipment and solution providers is professional. In the processing system of a factory, High qualified sanitary plate heat exchangers supply for Processing Equipment play the role of efficient energy saver or better production contributor. From Europe to Asia and from North America to South America, HFM make the design

August 27, 2021

High efficient serial plate heat exchangers in textile industry is coming!

South Asia countries have textile industry as one of their strongest economic sector because of the labor cost and resource planting centralization. High efficient serial plate heat exchangers in textile industry is coming! HFM supplies the clients of textile group companies from this geographic area with the high efficient plate heat exchangers to save energy

August 23, 2021

New series of HFM IP Souvenirs are coming now!

HFM always commit to provide qualified product and best service for our clients. Our souvenirs show our love and care for all of our dear clients.  New series of HFM IP Souvenirs for our dear clients are coming now!  HFM publishes a new series of IP souvenirs，including keychains, notebooks, lovely mugs, handbags, mousepads, phone-shells and

August 17, 2021

HFM offers high quality plate heat exchanger and replacements in Steel Industry

In the water limited area, the industry production cost management relies heavily on how to save water and utilize the seawater. To optimize the energy utilization, high quality plate heat exchanger and replacements in steel industry are used to achieve high efficient heat exchange in many plants.   In the middle east and other sand

August 13, 2021

HFM provides the clients with the most and best economic solutions in semiconductor industry.

The semiconductor industry blooms in the fast development of internet. HFM supplies the world well-known semiconductor manufacturer with plate heat exchanger and replacement spare parts for their expansion and new plant projects. To meet the cooling requirement, semiconductor players are expanding the plate heat exchanger’s heat transfer area of old equipment or improve the heat

August 10, 2021

HFM designed plate heat exchangers and supply the replacement parts for European and American breaker plants.

The most popular and well known choice for consuming eggs around the world are chicken eggs, which have eggshell, egg white and egg yolk that most people think of when they imagine eggs.The factories that make egg products are called breaker plants. The eggs have their shells broken by a machine and are them put

August 5, 2021

HFM provides services of spare part replacements for plate heat exchangers in a well-known South American paper and pulp mill.

HFM provides services of spare part replacements for plate heat exchangers in a well-known South American paper and pulp mill. In 2021, the price of international bulk commodities continues to rise, posing a challenge to the cost control of the global manufacturing industry, and it also increases the difficulty for industrial users to resume production

August 3, 2021

HFM supplies 60 pasteurizers and pre-heaters for European Modern Daries Farm.

Nowadays, higher standards of hygenic use for daires product are set up in Europe. HFM supplied 60 units of pasteurizers and pre-heaters for European modern dairy farms. HFM’s hygenic plate heat exchangers, not only assembled by FDA rubber gaskets and food use level 316L plates, but also can meet the European CE standard. Furthermore, Our

August 2, 2021

Online training courses goes Live on HFMPHE Youtube Channel !

Big News for you guys: Free online training courses is coming on HFMPHE Youtube Channel! Search “HFMPHE”   on Youtube, you will  have access to our multiple channels of industrial knowledge! Here, you will know Plate heat exchangers’ multiple applications, covering over 15 industries, and all the tips related to services & assembly for free. 

July 28, 2021

HFM wins its reputation in food and beverage industry.

During the epidemic, processing equipment for food and beverage industry has to meet with higher standards of hygenic use. After long term of cooperation with global drink producers, HFM wins its reputation and recognized as reliable plate heat exchanger supplier by our clients. For a South American Ram producer, HFM designed and supplied 12 units

July 27, 2021

HFM wins high credits from Norway Shipping Company

One Norway shipping company is HFM’s international marine sector client. As ship owner, it is a fully integrated shipping company and operates many chemical tankers ranging in size. And it is one of the major seaway transporting companies of chemicals and other bulk liquid cargoes in Northern-Europe.   During the epidemic, global shipping is still

July 23, 2021

Non-exclusive distributors recruitment is coming now!

Hofmann (HFM) is a worldwide engineering and manufacturing group, serving for almost all the processing, cooling and heating applications. With over 20 years’ professional experience in Heat Transferring Area, HFM is capable of providing qualified products and thermal solutions. With wave of globalization and open vision, HFM is delightful to have non-exclusive distributors to be

July 9, 2021

BV classified plate heat exchangers/plate coolers for Marine & Offshore

Vessels operate in demanding conditions and must meet rigorous safety standards. Ship owners and operators look to vessel classification to help them to secure a license to operate, control and reduce safety and security risks, comply with stringent regulations, and improve efficiency and environmental performance. HFMPHE™ offer BV classified plate heat exchangers/plate coolers and all-brand

July 6, 2021

HFM Global Distribution Network- Greece Marine Industry Representative

Seascape Marine & Trading Ltd. specializes in ship spare parts and deck equipment supplies for maintenance, repairs and new buildings, providing full support and technical consultancy on an international level. The team has the knowledge and long practical experience in the industry over 15 years. Greece marine industry represents HFM global distribution network. Now HFM

July 5, 2021

HFM New Website Go Live on 15th June 2021

This summer, HFM publishes our new website with multiple channels to our customers, such as Solutions, Service & Support, Products, etc. HFM New Website goes live now! New functions are also added to our new website, including E-shop, Searching Area, Latest News which can meet our client’s needs as much as possible. Here, you will

July 4, 2021

Cape Natalie: 15 days on-board Services

Cape Natalie: 15 days on-board Services. Recently, HFM’s After-Sales Service Center received the commission from the Greek Seascape Shipping Company to perform on-board maintenance of two main plate heat exchangers (Sea-Water Purification and main Engine-Oil-Coolers) on the bulk carrier Cape Natalie, as its customer. Cape Natalie is a bulk carrier with displacement of 190,000 tons

August 25, 2020

Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger Market

The plate and frame heat exchangers are widely applied in life.

June 25, 2020

2020 HFM PROMOTION IN JUNE!

2020 the world had a tough begining but all beings will confidently fight over the econimic strike of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the recovery time of many industries of the world economy, HFM to meet worldwide customers requirement for their equipment maintenance schedule, now put forward the PROMOTION with high quality, good price and fast

February 21, 2020

HFM2020 Spring Sale Comes, Online Points Gift Season

HFM launched HFMCLOUDAPP in October 2019, which offering 7 * 24 online purchase services. During the test period, It has been used by some internal users, the feedback is great; Therefore, we decide to pre-register an account for you on APP, which is your email address. The default password is 123654. You will get 100

November 23, 2019

HFMCLOUD New Application of PHE Online

In the July,2019 HFMCLOUD App public promotion will serve all clients the integrated online. And it is perfecting our service processes and quality.

May 26, 2019

HFM Pakistan Business Customer Visit

In the time of One Belt One Road Second Forum held in Apr. 2019 Beijing, China, 37 countries leaders agreed on the theme “together building one belt one road and together building a better world”. HFM as a leading PHE manufacturer and supplier, welcomed our business friend from Pakistan, to witness the cooperation between two nation’s

August 17, 2018

HFM Global Stock Distribution

The global plate and frame heat exchanger market is expected to drive product significance over the forecast period reaching USD 5.99 billion by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc.

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