Since the discovery that microwaves have the ability to heat, numerous attempts have been made to capitalize on this phenomenon for commercial applications. As the consumer’s personal experience with residential microwave ovens has shown, the primary drawback of microwave heating is its inability to heat materials in a uniform manner, leaving hot spots that damage the item being heated and cold spots where the item is unheated or unprocessed. As a result, previous attempts to employ microwaves in commercial processes requiring uniform heating have been unsuccessful and extremely costly.

In sharp contrast, IMS has developed and patented the first technologies to achieve uniform microwave heating for continuous Planar and Cylindrical (through a pipe) processes on a production scale. Thus, whether processing webs of fabric, sheets of paper, strands of foam, conveyed beds of material, streams of chemicals, lines of food, etc., IMS’ technologies provide uniform, cost-effective heating, drying, bonding, curing, reacting, pasteurizing, or sterilizing. IMS is the only firm in the world successful in accomplishing this and implementing it in full-scale production environments. With these technologies, the speed, compactness, energy efficiency, and convenience enjoyed by consumers in the kitchen are achieved across a wide array of industrial applications.