Reaching cryogenic temperatures of –150°C and lower requires removing thermal energy far beyond what conventional refrigeration can achieve. You need specialised thermodynamic processes and refrigerants to get there, and one way is through cryocoolers.
Thermodynamic cycles like Stirling and Gifford-McMahon, or pulse tube technology, are some of the tools that enable these systems to cool efficiently. And this supercooling tech today powers some of the world’s most advanced and important technologies: satellites, quantum computing, preserving superconducting states, sustaining magnetic fields in MRI machines, and more.
As you would expect, cryocoolers is a market with a few strong players. And one of those out in front is the Finnish business Bluefors – even more so since the company acquired long-standing cryocooler company Cryomech, based in Syracuse, New York, just over two years ago.
Bluefors was purely a Finnish business, based in Helsinki and selling around the world. But it had always done a lot of business in the US – about half of all its sales. And in all its years of trading it had relied a lot on Cryomech, and particularly its pulse tube cryocoolers. So a tie-up made sense on many fronts.
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