MANUFACTURE OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND FURNACE THEREOF

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized furnace for manufacturing a PDP capable of improving productivity by shortening processing time and preventing temperature unevenness in heating and cooling of an assembly of a plasma display panel. SOLUTION: This furnace for manufacturing a plasma display panel is provided with a muffle 16 connecting a purge gas feeding pipe, a discharge gas feeding pipe, a discharge gas collecting pipe, and a vacuum exhaust pipe 30 in a furnace body T of a side part charging type batch furnace with a heater arranged in a periphery of an inner wall of the furnace, a baffle 17 for housing a plurality of plasma display panel assemblies P in the muffle 16. An exhaust pipe 12 and a gas feeding pipe for cooling 14 are connected in a space formed with the inner wall of the furnace and the muffle. A carriage 27 for loading and taking out the plasma display panel assembly to a circulating fan 24 and the baffle is provided to a retractable door 18 lined with thermal insulator 19.