Abstract: An apparatus for nitriding metal materials and ferroalloys under pressure in which a melting furnace is positioned above a pulverizing chamber and connected thereto, with an intake chamber, provided with a pulverizer, disposed in between with a dust-catching cyclone having a suction collector being connected to the upper portion of the pulverizing chamber. An exchange hopper is connected to an outlet formed in the lower portion of the pulverizing chamber and feeds into an inlet end of a pipe furnace which in turn, feeds into an intermediate hopper. An end hopper is positioned beneath the intermediate hopper and connected thereto and feeds into a briquetting installation. Separate pipe conduit systems are connected to the various elements of the apparatus for supplying pressurized nitrogen thereto or for the evacuation thereof.