About Us
Cryotronix designs, manufactures and sells cryogenic, medical and industrial gas equipment. We also provide consulting services for custom components and systems to suit your specific application requirements. We offer technical information to support existing and potential future customers. We hope you find this informative and interesting!
Our History
Idea
Cryotronix was founded in Montreal in 1995 and is a federal corporation created to provide equipment and specialized technical services to a variety of industries, specifically where applications involve the use of industrial gases and cryogenic liquids.
Vision
We have developed flow control systems, vaporization equipment, gas mixing and gas
analysis apparatus.
We are particularly involved in processes where our
technical knowledge and innovative equipment are integrated to achieve reliable
results, while improving the efficiency of the use of energy and materials.
Production
All of our systems are designed and built in Montreal in cooperation with our
suppliers and associate-contractors.
Our goal is to provide the most
suited equipment for the given application, while maintaining a quality to price
ratio second to none.
Industries
Crytronix is proud offers a wide range of support and services for various industries:
Providing quality, innovative and reliable products and services to the
industrial, medical and cryogenic gas markets. Cryotronix will act responsibly
towards its business partners and employees.
Cryotronix takes with full responsibility its commitment to its community and
to the environment. We are committed to providing safe products using the most
recent available technologies.
Industries
Aerospace
Modern aerospace began with George Cayley in 1799, who proposed an aircraft
with a 'fixed wing and a horizontal and vertical tail,'' defining
characteristics of the modern airplane. Aerospace is a science, engineering
and a business to fly in the atmosphere of Earth (aeronautics) and surrounding
space (astronautics). Aerospace organisations research, design, manufacture,
operates, or maintains aircraft and/or spacecraft. Aerospace activity is very
diverse, with a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications.
Functional safety is crucial in the aerospace industry, which allows no
compromises or negligence. In this respect, supervisory bodies, regulate the
aerospace market with strict certification standards. This is meant to reach
and ensure the highest possible level of safety by manufacturing and testing
components at the conditions they are meant to operate in.
Cryotronix offers years of experience and engineering capabilities to design,
develop and maintain specialized equipment for the aerospace industry in the
field of metallurgy and cryogenic processing of components. Cryogenic
processing is not a substitute for heat treatment, but rather an extension of
the heating - quenching - tempering cycle. Normally, when an item is quenched,
the final temperature is ambient. The only reason for this is that most heat
treaters do not have cooling equipment. There is nothing metallurgically
significant about ambient temperature. The cryogenic process continues this
action from ambient temperature down to −320 °F
Cryogenic Gases & Chemicals
In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production and behaviour of
materials at very low temperatures. Liquefied gases, such as liquid nitrogen
and liquid helium, are used in many cryogenic applications. Liquid nitrogen is
the most commonly used element in cryogenics, liquid helium is also commonly
used and allows for the lowest attainable temperatures to be reached.
Cryogens, such as liquid nitrogen, are further used for specialty chilling and
freezing applications. Some chemical reactions, like those used to produce the
active ingredients for the popular statin drugs, must occur at low
temperatures of approximately −100 °C (−148 °F). Special cryogenic chemical
reactors are used to remove reaction heat and provide a low temperature
environment.
The freezing of foods and biotechnology products, like vaccines, requires
nitrogen in blast freezing or immersion freezing systems. Certain soft or
elastic materials become hard and brittle at very low temperatures, which
makes cryogenic milling an option for some materials that cannot easily be
milled at higher temperatures.
Cryotronix designs and offers multiple systems to measure, control and
validate process requirements:
Electronics
Electronics is the science of controlling electric energy, in which, the
electrons have a fundamental role. Electronics deals with electrical circuits
that involve electrical components such as transistors, diodes, relays and
integrated circuits, and associated passive electrical components.
Nanotechnology as defined by size is naturally very broad, including diverse
fields of science such as surface technologies, organic chemistry, molecular
biology, semiconductors, micro-assembly and molecular engineering. The
associated research and applications are equally diverse, ranging from
extensions of conventional physical methods to new methodologies based upon
molecular and sub-molecular assembly, upon which new materials are developed
with nanoscale dimensions.
The manufacturing process of circuits and nanoscale components will require
inert gas atmospheres during production assembly as well as environmental
testing to duplicate typical operating conditions of such component.
Cryotronix offers an extensive line of products developed in collaboration
with other partners in the industry to achieve the required results
Food & Beverage
The food industry is complex and global, combining diverse businesses that
supply most of the food consumed by the world population. Food processing
includes the methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into
food for human consumption. Food processing takes clean, harvested or
slaughtered and butchered components and uses them to produce marketable food
products. There are several different ways in which food can be produced.
The beverage industry refers to the industry that produces drinks or in other
terms ready to drink beverages. Beverage production can vary depending on the
beverage being made such as soft drinks or beer. Modern food or beverage
production is defined by sophisticated technologies such as humane
slaughtering, food freezing, food packaging, fermentation, recuperation,
pasteurizing, bottling ..etc.
Cryotronix offers a full line of products and systems that will reply to the
specific needs of the food industry and to ensure that the clients product
quality is maintained at all time.
For restaurants, fast food restaurants, on the go eateries, pubs, taverns and
all other types of outlets that serve carbonated beverages and beer, we also
offer: Ambient Carbon dioxide and oxygen gas analyzers and alarms, Source
pressure alarm modules
Micro-Breweries
Beer may have been known for centuries, in some form, it can be traced back
almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian and ancient Egyptian writings describing
daily rations of beer and bread to workers.
A brewery is a business that makes and sells beer. Brewing is typically
divided into 9 steps: milling, malting, mashing, lautering, boiling,
fermenting, conditioning, filtering, and filling. The diversity of size in
breweries corresponds to the diversity of processes, degrees of automation and
kinds of beer produced in a brewery.
A microbrewery is a brewery that produces small amounts of beer, typically
much smaller than large-scale corporate breweries, and is independently owned.
Such breweries are generally characterized by their emphasis on quality,
flavor and brewing technique.
Cryotronix offers specialized products designed and manufactured for the
microbrewery industry
Laboratories & Pharma
The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs,
vaccines and pharmaceutical products for use as medication. Pharmaceutical
companies may deal in generic or brand medications and medical devices. They
are subject to a variety of laws and regulations that govern the discovery,
testing, safety, efficacy and marketing of such drugs.
Laboratory techniques are the sum of processes used on natural sciences such
as chemistry, biology and physics in order to conduct an experiment following
specific scientific methods; while some of them involve the use of complex
laboratory equipment such as laboratory glassware and electrical devices,
others require specific or expensive supplies.
Cryotronix offers a line of products that was developed to suite various
industry applications from clinical trials to packaging and shipping of
vaccines.
Mining, Metal Production & Foundries
Metal transformation, production and foundries have existed since 3200 BC.
Metal working starts after the mining industry has supplied the production
with its raw material.
Foundry processes include: melting, furnace fusion, degassing, pouring,
shakeout, degating, heat treating, surface cleaning and finishing. For the
past 25 years, Cryotronix has designed, developed and implemented process
technologies in the mining, metal production and foundry industries for
various processes
Pulp and Paper
It was thought that computers will eventually reduce the paper burden on trees
and forests, yet; till today, the pulp and paper industry is considered to be
one of the world largest. The pulp and paper industry are companies that use
wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, board and other products.
Since 1994, Cryotronix has implemented its equipment and process technologies
in various stages of the pulp and paper manufacturing process, acquiring
multiple approvals and technology proficiencies.
The following is a partial list of available capabilities at your disposal;
please feel free to contact us with your particular application needs
Water Treatment
With the turn of the century, most industries face tougher laws on potable and
effluent waste water standards. municipal waste water discharge is controlled
by permits issued by the governing bodies, setting specific limits and
parameters for pollutants such as BOD, COD, pH, hydrocarbons, metals
phenol,...etc. Being able to control the pH of effluent from industrial
facilities is therefore essential to achieve these standards.
Water treatment is any process that makes water more acceptable for a specific
end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation,
river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses including being
safely returned to the environment.
With over 20 years of supply, Cryotronix became a leader in the pH reduction
systems using carbon dioxide. With our advanced controlled injection modules
and precise process monitoring we achieve the standards required for your
application
