Innobraze

What Innobraze does

Innobraze GmbH, headquartered in Esslingen, Germany, is a specialty industrial materials and engineering services company focused on high-temperature furnace brazing under protective gas and vacuum atmospheres. Founded in 1997 from the brazing paste manufacturing operations of Mahler Dienstleistungs-GmbH and the BrazeCoat division of Degussa AG, the company has approximately 25 employees and operates as a privately held German limited liability company. Since January 2020, Innobraze has been a strategic operating subsidiary of Kymera-Gruppe (Kymera International), a US-based industrial group specializing in brazing filler metals and wear-resistant coatings.

The company's product portfolio spans three core lines: (1) flux-free brazing filler metal pastes (Lotpasten) in copper, nickel, silver, iron, sintering, and active brazing formulations for steel, super alloys, and copper materials; (2) the trademarked BrazeCoat wear-resistant coating technology, available as BC-S (suspension, 0.05-0.3 mm layers at ~65 HRC) and BC-M (mat, 1-3 mm layers) variants that produce carbide-reinforced composite layers with up to 70 volume-% carbide particles via furnace brazing; and (3) InnoTape repair tapes, including flexible tapes, pre-sintered form parts, and 3-dimensional moldings for gas turbine blade repair. Services include technical consulting, custom paste formulation, coating and brazing trials, and customer-specific process development.

Innobraze generates revenue through a combination of hardware sales (brazing pastes in cartridges, buckets, cans, and drums) and professional services (BrazeCoat coating services, technical consulting, process development, and InnoTape solutions). GTM is direct sales-led, with a technical sales team engaging large enterprises, mid-sized firms, and small businesses across automotive, household appliance, tooling, aviation, energy, agriculture, mining, mechanical process engineering, and gas turbine verticals. Customers are primarily in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Pricing is custom quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company also participates in DVS, DIN/CEN, and BMBF-funded research collaborations, reinforcing its positioning as a technology leader in industrial furnace brazing.

Name

Innobraze

Legal name

Innobraze GmbH

Website

https://innobraze.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Innobraze GmbH is a German specialty industrial materials company that develops and produces flux-free brazing pastes, BrazeCoat wear-resistant carbide coatings, and InnoTape repair tapes for industrial furnace brazing of steel, super alloys, and copper materials, serving customers in automotive, aviation, energy, and gas turbine sectors as a Kymera International subsidiary.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Brazing Materials

NAICS

Coating, Engraving, Heat Treating, and Allied Activities (33281)

SIC

Paints, Varnishes, Lacquers, Enamels & Allied Prods (2851)

akta.pro primary industry

Electroplating & Metal Finishing (Anodizing/Galvanizing/Passivation) (IMAIAKAE)

Keywords

• Industrial brazing pastes
• Furnace brazing services
• Wear-resistant coatings
• High-temperature brazing
• Brazing filler metals

Headquarters

HQ city

Esslingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Brazing Paste Products: Sale of flux-free brazing pastes (copper, nickel, silver, iron, sintering, and active brazing pastes) for industrial furnace brazing. Delivered in cartridges, buckets, cans, and drums in reusable systems.
2. BrazeCoat Coating Services: Wear-resistant coating services using BrazeCoat S and M processes. Full service from consultation through to coating of customer components.
3. Technical Consulting and Process Development: Brazing technical consulting for component development (prototypes and small series), coating and brazing trials on customer parts in protective gas and vacuum furnace systems, and support for customer new development projects.
4. InnoTape Products: Sale of InnoTape repair tapes and form parts for gas turbine repair applications, including 3-dimensional moldings customized to customer specifications.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

INNOBRAZE develops and produces flux-free brazing pastes (copper, nickel, silver, iron, sintering, and active brazing) for high-temperature furnace brazing of steel parts, super alloys, copper materials, and sintered parts under protective gas or vacuum. The company also offers its proprietary BrazeCoat wear-resistant coating technology (BC-S suspension and BC-M mat variants) that bonds carbide-reinforced composite layers onto highly stressed industrial components, plus InnoTape repair tapes for gas turbine maintenance and full-service technical consulting from material selection through process design.

Product overview

INNOBRAZE is an innovative technology company specializing in industrial furnace brazing solutions. The product portfolio centers on three main offerings: (1) Brazing filler metal pastes (Lotpasten) including copper-based, nickel-based, silver-based, iron-based, sintering, and active brazing formulations for various base materials; (2) BrazeCoat wear-resistant coating technology available in two variants - BC-S (suspension, 0.05-0.3 mm thickness) and BC-M (matte, 1-3 mm thickness) - both producing carbide-reinforced composite layers via furnace brazing; and (3) InnoTape repair tapes for gasturbine maintenance. Services include technical consulting, customer-specific paste development, coating/brazing trials, and research/norming participation (DIN, CEN, DVS, AWS).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BrazeCoat: Wear-resistant coating process for protecting surfaces of highly stressed components using carbide composite layers bonded via furnace brazing under protective gas atmosphere.
• BrazeCoat M
• BrazeCoat S
• InnoTape

Products and services

• Lotpasten (Brazing Filler Metal Pastes) Flux-free universal standard brazing pastes for high-temperature furnace brazing of steel, super alloys, copper materials, and sintered parts under protective gas or vacuum atmospheres. Available in copper-based (ML 100, ML 103, ML 104, ML 106, ML 200, ML 320), nickel-based (ML 4119 through ML 4613), silver-based (ML 530, ML 541, ML 550, ML 556, ML 572), iron-based (ML 7805, ML 7300, ML 7813), sintering (ML 650), and active (RAB) brazing paste formulations, delivered in cartridges, buckets, cans, and drums in reusable packaging systems. Custom formulations are developed for specific customer requirements.
• BrazeCoat Wear-Resistant Coating Proprietary wear-resistant coating technology that bonds carbide-reinforced composite layers onto surfaces of highly stressed components via furnace brazing under protective gas atmosphere. The composite layers contain up to 70 volume-% fine-grained carbide particles embedded in a metallic matrix. Offered in two variants: BC-S (suspension process, 0.05-0.3mm layer thickness, ~65 HRC hardness, near-pore-free <1% porosity) for fan wheels, mill housings, rotors, and hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders; and BC-M (mat process using plastic-bonded carbide and brazing powder form parts cut and layered on the substrate, 1-3mm layer thickness) for pump housings, mixer blades, and extruder components. Furnace brazing is performed at approximately 1100°C.
• InnoTape (Brazing and Repair Tapes / Lottapes) Repair tapes and form parts for brazing applications, including flexible repair tapes, pre-sintered form parts, and 3-dimensional moldings for complex repair geometries. InnoTape variants are specifically designed for gas turbine blade repair in energy and propulsion engineering. Lotschnur (brazing cord) variants are offered for induction and furnace brazing applications.
• Technical Consulting and Process Development Services Complete service offering covering consultation on brazing filler metal selection, development of customer-specific brazing paste formulations, coating and brazing trials on customer parts using protective gas and vacuum furnace systems, technical consultation for component and prototype development (including small series production), and support for new customer development projects across industries such as automotive, aviation, energy, household appliances, tools, mechanical process engineering, mining, steel, and gas turbines.

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• DVS-Verband (Forschungsvereinigung Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V.)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive membership in the research association, working in technical committee FA7 on brazing. Participates in defining research needs and developing research projects. Collaborates with industry (especially SMEs) and research institutes on brazing technology.
• Fachgesellschaft Löten im DVS (DVS Brazing Specialist Society)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the DVS brazing specialist society with over 60 members from industry, institutes, and individuals. Society supports brazing standardization, personnel qualification, occupational safety, and environmental protection. Organizes the triennial international symposium on high-temperature brazing and diffusion welding.
• DIN/DVS-Gemeinschaftsausschuss Löten (GA V 6.1 / NA 092-00-08-01)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipation in the DIN/DVS joint committee on brazing, comprising over 50 volunteer experts from industry and research institutions. Collaborates on standardization at national, European, and international levels, including IIW (International Institute of Welding) activities.
• Universities and Research InstitutesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration with universities and institutes in joint research projects. Research association with BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and other ministries to develop future-oriented products and improve technologies.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Höganäs AB: Höganäs produces metal powders including brazing and sintering powders, overlapping directly with Innobraze's brazing paste product line for industrial furnace brazing applications.
• Wall Colmonoy: Wall Colmonoy manufactures wear-resistant alloy coatings and brazing products using similar furnace and thermal processes, directly competing with Innobraze's BrazeCoat composite-layer technology.
• Durum Verschleißschutz: Durum is a Germany-based specialist in wear-protection consumables and coatings serving similar industrial customers, making it a close regional direct peer to Innobraze's BrazeCoat offerings.
• Castolin Eutectic: Castolin Eutectic specializes in brazing alloys and wear-protection consumables with a product portfolio that closely mirrors Innobraze's brazing pastes and wear-resistant coatings for industrial customers.

Broad incumbents

• Bodycote: Bodycote is a global provider of heat treatment and surface treatment services including coating processes that overlap with BrazeCoat, though it serves a much broader portfolio of finishing technologies.
• Sandvik: Sandvik's hard materials and machining divisions produce wear-resistant tooling and materials that compete with Innobraze's wear-protection solutions for industrial and process applications.
• Plansee Group: Plansee produces refractory metals and hard materials with comparable technical depth in metallurgy, sintering, and joining technologies relevant to Innobraze's brazing and wear-coating portfolio.
• Oerlikon Metco: Oerlikon Metco offers surface treatment and coating solutions for industrial components, including wear-protection coatings that overlap with BrazeCoat's carbide composite applications across aerospace, energy, and industrial markets.
• Praxair Surface Technologies (Linde): Now part of Linde, Praxair Surface Technologies provides thermal spray and surface treatment services with comparable industrial wear-protection solutions to BrazeCoat at much larger global scale.

Others

• voestalpine: voestalpine is a major Austrian steel and industrial group that both uses similar brazing and wear-protection technologies in its components and competes with specialty suppliers in heavy industrial markets adjacent to Innobraze's served verticals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/innobraze-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Innobraze