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In 1969, Elnik Instruments, Inc. was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of W.H. Joens & Co. GMBH, Germany to market the company's line of temperature controllers, recorders, and programmers. These instruments were designed for use on industrial furnaces, vacuum furnaces, and a variety of plastic extrusion and injection molding machinery. In 1982, Elnik began to focus its efforts on the manufacture of complete Vacuum Furnaces systems. Between 1982 and 1985 thirty furnaces were built for the Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA for the manufacture of traveling wave tubes (TWT) for the Patriot Missile Project. By 1986 the demand for custom vacuum furnaces far exceeded the demand for instruments and a new company, Elnik Systems, was formed to meet the demand. In 1992, a "one-step" debind and sinter vacuum furnace was developed to meet the needs of the metal injection molding market. The MIM 3000 provided a cost-effective alternative to the two-furnace technology then being used. To date more than 65 of these highly successful furnaces have been sold. In 2002, Elnik Systems and PVA TePla AG of Asslar, Germany, have partnered to form PVA MIMtech, LLC. This new firm will operate out of the existing Elnik location. The facility is state of the art and along with manufacturing capabilities, houses a complete research and development and technical center. PVA MIMtech, LLC has three main objectives: First, PVA MIMtech will continue to manufacture the most advanced MIM furnaces in the...