What Inductoheat makes

Inductoheat designs, builds, and repairs induction heating equipment, from general-purpose machines to fully automated, turn-key systems. The core lines address four processes: heat treating (surface hardening, tempering, annealing), forging and billet heating, shrink fitting, and pipe-end and bar-end heating. The company positions itself in automotive powertrain hardening, where induction replaces furnace-based methods with faster cycle times, lower distortion, and lower energy use per part.

The named product families map to specific components. CamPro is a stationary induction system for camshaft hardening. CrankPro uses the company's patented SHarP-C process (Stationary Hardening Process for Crankshafts), which hardens crankshafts without rotating the workpiece, a design Inductoheat credits with longer tooling life and faster throughput. The Inductoscan modular platform handles gears, shafts, and bearing races, and the compact Statiscan II scanner targets medium-duty hardening and tempering in a work-cell footprint. On the forging side, Inductoheat builds bar-end heating systems and billet heaters that feed forging presses. Supporting products include ACR copper tube annealers, Statipower SP5 solid-state power supplies, and IFP (Independent Frequency and Power) inverter technology that controls frequency and power separately for multi-stage heating. The company designs its own induction coils and power supplies, a capability it traces to its induction power supply work more than 60 years ago.

Alongside equipment, Inductoheat runs a process development and applications group of scientists, metallurgists, and engineers who prove out hardening patterns before a machine is built, plus an aftermarket operation for spare parts, coil and transformer repair, and 24-hour field service.

Ownership and history

Inductoheat was founded in 1962 and operates from a single main plant at 32251 North Avis Drive in Madison Heights, Michigan, inside the Detroit automotive corridor. It is a subsidiary of the Inductotherm Group, a privately held network of roughly 40 companies across 19 countries that all serve the heat-driven processing of metals. Inductotherm Corp, the parent, was founded in 1953 by Henry M. Rowan and built its reputation on induction melting; the group has since grown to cover melting, heat treating, forging, cutting, and welding, with total employment in the 1,000 to 5,000 range.

Leadership is long-tenured and internally promoted. Randall Minnick has served as interim president and chief operating officer since April 2025, after roughly three decades at the company spanning project engineering, engineering management, and operations. The prior president and CEO, John Maher, left in early 2026 to lead B&P Littleford, another industrial-equipment maker. Robert Madeira has led the heat treating business as vice president since 2010. The Madison Heights unit itself is small, on the order of 90 to 100 employees, but it draws on the engineering, manufacturing, and service depth of the wider group, including sister companies in India, Taiwan, and Europe.

Certifications and quality

Inductoheat holds ISO 9001:2015 certification issued by Bureau Veritas. The scope on the certificate reads: the design and manufacture of coils, power supplies, machines, and ancillary equipment for induction heating of metal. The registration was originally approved in January 2001 and, per the certificate on the company's site, remains valid until December 6, 2027. Because the company sells capital equipment into automotive and aerospace supply chains, its quality claims center on repeatable metallurgical results, hardness-pattern consistency, minimal distortion, and documented process control, delivered through its process development lab rather than through part-level certifications such as PPAP, which apply to the parts makers who run its machines.

Known customers

Inductoheat sells to component manufacturers and their OEM customers rather than to consumers, and it does not publish a named customer list. Its products are aimed squarely at automotive powertrain parts, camshafts, crankshafts, gears, shafts, and transmission components, so its buyers are engine, driveline, and bearing makers, plus forging shops that use its billet and bar-end heaters. No individual customer relationship is documented in a public filing, so the honest reading is a sector one: Inductoheat equipment sits inside automotive, aerospace, and general-industrial heat treating operations, and the company markets induction as a fit for vehicle electrification, where hardened gears, shafts, and battery-adjacent components still need precise heat treating.

Sourcing evidence

Inductoheat's US import record is modest and revealing: 79 sea shipments on record, with the most recent arriving on August 22, 2026. The naming pattern in that record is the notable part. The top foreign shippers are Inductotherm India and Inductotherm Group Taiwan, both sister companies inside its own parent group, alongside Koyo Romania and Electroterm. That signature, components and sub-assemblies moving between affiliated plants, is what an intra-group manufacturing network looks like: the Madison Heights operation builds and integrates systems in Michigan while drawing coils, power electronics, and machine components from allied and affiliated suppliers abroad. It is the profile of a builder of capital equipment, not a reseller of finished goods.

Two caveats apply. These are US ocean-freight records only; air, truck, and rail movements do not appear, which understates a machinery builder that also sources domestically. And the full monthly shipment series was not machine-readable at the time of review, so the count and recency are reliable while the fine-grained trend is not. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence.

Frequently asked questions

What does Inductoheat make?

Inductoheat makes induction heating equipment: heat treating systems for surface hardening, tempering, and annealing, plus forging and billet heaters, shrink-fitting systems, and pipe-end and bar-end heaters. Named lines include CamPro for camshafts, CrankPro for crankshafts, and the Inductoscan and Statiscan platforms for gears and shafts. It also builds its own induction power supplies and coils.

Who owns Inductoheat?

Inductoheat is a subsidiary of the Inductotherm Group, a privately held network of about 40 companies in 19 countries headquartered in Rancocas, New Jersey. The parent, Inductotherm Corp, was founded in 1953 by Henry M. Rowan. Inductoheat itself was founded in 1962.

Where is Inductoheat located?

Inductoheat's main plant and headquarters are at 32251 North Avis Drive, Madison Heights, Michigan 48071, in the Detroit automotive region. It operates within the wider Inductotherm Group, which maintains manufacturing and service companies worldwide, including Inductoheat Europe.

Who are Inductoheat's customers?

Inductoheat does not publish a named customer list. Its systems are bought by automotive and aerospace component makers, camshaft, crankshaft, gear, shaft, and transmission manufacturers, and by forging shops, since induction hardening and billet heating are core to those operations.

What certifications does Inductoheat hold?

Inductoheat holds ISO 9001:2015 certification from Bureau Veritas, with a scope covering the design and manufacture of coils, power supplies, machines, and ancillary equipment for induction heating of metal. The certificate was originally approved in January 2001 and is listed as valid through December 6, 2027.

How big is Inductoheat?

The Madison Heights unit employs roughly 90 to 100 people and has operated since 1962. It is part of the much larger Inductotherm Group, which reports total employment in the 1,000 to 5,000 range across roughly 40 companies worldwide. Inductoheat does not publish audited revenue, and third-party estimates vary too widely to be reliable.

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