Who's Who at DSH

Claus Joens is President of both DSH Technologies, LLC and Elnik Systems, LLC. Born in Germany, Joens received his BSBA from the University of Minnesota. He began Elnik Systems in 1969. In 1994, Elnik began manufacturing furnaces for the MIM industry. These furnaces substantially reduced processing time by combining debinding and sintering in one furnace.

To date, Joens has over 26 years of experience manufacturing vacuum and MIM furnaces, and over 10 years providing consultation services in the MIM industry. He has been personally involved in the placement of approximately 600 furnaces, of which nearly 200 are MIM furnaces located throughout the world.

Dr. Satya Banerjee received his Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D in Metallurgical Engineering specializing in Powder Metallurgy from IIT, Kharagpur, in India. He was a faculty member at IIT, Kharagpur and a visiting fellow at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

Banerjee has over 20 years of US industrial experience, more than 15 of which has been developing materials, processes and products as well as setting up laboratory and production equipment in the MIM Industry. He is widely published and holds one US patent.