Founded in 1936 in Antwerp, BELGIUM, the Brussels based company FIB – Le Four Industriel Belge – is a manufacturer of industrial furnaces for various sectors mainly in the field of steel wire but is also supplying heating equipment to glass, ceramic, heat treatment and non ferrous industries.

The FIB core business are equipments used to process steel wires where the company is a world-wide leading supplier that frequently receives the “number one” label.
The range of products in this field includes batch heat treatment installations and continuous lines for patenting lines, annealing, galvanizing and oil tempered wires. Wires processed on these installations will become tire cord, spring, lift and crane cables, dry clean hangers, nails, piano wire, staples to mention just a few end products.

Within that framework, FIB is a major supplier to many famous companies such as Bekaert, Pirelli, Goodyear, Kiswire and Sumitomo amongst 134 global customers located in 30 countries, most of them are long-term customers who not only have one but several FIB installations.

Our policy is to continually develop new and innovative technologies. A recent development that became winning equipment for the galvanizing of steel wire is the dynamic wiping. It allows fine and accurate control of the quantity of zinc on the wire.
Nowadays, continuous galvanizing lines have to run at higher and higher speeds and the control of the zinc coating was becoming a critical challenge parameter to master. FIB holds the solution. Demand is rising and the reference list in this field is continually growing month by month.

Well known in the non-ferrous field and in the glass industry, the FIB combustion equipment (Constan mixer, impulse burners, TAGU) with very low NOx emissions is applied in many heating technologies like forehearth, lehr, high tech ceramic furnaces, melting furnaces for copper, aluminium melting furnaces and so on and tunnel kilns for sanitary !

Indeed this genuine gas-fired heating equipment based on the premix technique, offers a complete control of the atmosphere in the furnace. This technique consists in one device mixing the air and gas in correct and stable proportions to feed several burners with this pre-mixing of air and gas. Of course, within that framework, we have also a range of air/gas separated burners for applications like in high-tech ceramic technology.

It must also be highlighted that FIB is producing in some cases special furnaces like we did for the polymerisation of some pieces on the Airbus wings (Sonaca), tempering furnaces for the testing of skyscraper windows, recovery of glass fibres by hot process (INIEX), forging furnaces, backing of high voltage insulators (NGK) and so on.

To promote its products, the Brussels based sales team works in co-operation with 23 agents located all across the world.