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APPLICATIONS
Call (865) 574-9784 To Speak
With An Engineer About Your Heating Application
Or Email Your Inquiry To info@infraredheating.com
Below represents only a sample listing of the many heater, oven, and
furnace systems Infrared Heating Technologies have designed and manufactured
for a wide variety of thermal processing applications.
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Delivers Infrared Tunnel Oven (Curing Primer) |
| Infrared Heating Technologies recently designed,
built, and installed an Electric Infrared Clamshell Tunnel Oven And Control
System for curing a primer coating on aluminum and steel strip at production
throughput rates up to 450 feet per minute and strip widths up to 48". |
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Short wave infrared tunnel oven and control system measures 28' in length
by 10' width, with a maximum output power of 1,025 KW. System features top and
bottom independent control zones, varying heater output with line speed, ten
input blowers, large 20" exhaust, crash protection rails, and a powered
clamshell for opening the oven.
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Delivers Infrared/Convection Combination Conveyor Belt Oven (Solder Flow) |
| Infrared Heating Technologies recently designed,
built, and installed an Electric Infrared/Convection Combination Conveyor Belt
Oven Oven And Control
System for flowing a solder pre-form on a ice machine condenser plate. This
in-line conveyor system replaces the old batch style ovens, significantly
reducing energy and maintenance costs, while increasing production throughput
and process reproducibility. |
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Infrared/convection conveyor belt oven and control system. System features
infrared radiant heat with convective mixing blowers for outstanding
temperature control and uniformity. Heat zone interior is all stainless steel
construction for minimum corrosion from solder flux. Includes an exhaust
system for handling the flux vapor.
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Delivers Two Silicon Carbide Hardening Furnaces (Hardening Strip) |
| Infrared Heating Technologies recently designed,
built, and installed two Silicon Carbide Tube Furnaces for hardening of wet
shaving blade steel strip. |
  
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Silicon carbide clamshell tube furnace and control system. This system
features silicon carbide heating elements and a full silicon carbine hearth
plate supporting the four Inconel processing tubes. Heating is from top and
bottom for outstanding temperature uniformity. Furnace system includes eight
independent temperature control zones and does not require any load transformers. |
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ROB Batch Furnace (Aluminum Flattening Furnace) |
| Infrared Heating Technologies designed,
built, and installed an Electric Rod Over Bend (ROB) Heating Element Furnace And Control
System for annealing and flattening rolled aluminum alloy sheet. |
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ROB electric heating element batch furnace features hydraulic lift system for
ease of loading and a high temperature re-circulation plug blower mounted in a
stainless steel distribution plenum for fast and uniform heating.
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Infrared Heating Technologies Infrared Tunnel
Oven (Powder Coat Oven)
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed,
built, and installed an Electric Infrared Tunnel Oven for a powder coat curing
application. The customer increased the line speed from 8 feet per minute to
12 feet per minute while increasing the quality of the coating. |
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Infrared tunnel oven features short wave electric infrared heaters for curing
powder coat on structural steel parts.
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Infrared Heating Technologies
Infrared/Convection Staging Conveyor Oven (Pre-Heat Oven)
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed,
built, and installed two Electric Infrared/Convection Combination Staging
Conveyor Ovens for a large automotive supply manufacturer. The ovens pre-heat
SUV dashboards prior to a foam injection molding process. |
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Infrared/convection staging conveyor oven features multiple control zones,
pneumatic lifting load and unload doors, staging conveyor, safety light
curtains at load and unload, optical pyrometer temperature verification of
part temperature, and full PLC process recipe controls.
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Combination Conveyor Oven (Proof Oven)
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed and built a
Combination Conveyor Oven for a large automotive supply manufacturer. The oven
pre-heats air bag initiator parts to "proof" the integrity of the
weld part. |
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Combination conveyor oven features multiple control zones, optical pyrometer
temperature verification of part temperature, and full PLC process recipe
controls.
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Conveyor Oven (Tube Setting Oven)
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed and built a
Combination Conveyor Oven And Water Spray Quench System for a large automotive supply manufacturer.
The application is heat and quench setting of Santoprene and MLT automotive fuel lines. This system replaces the conventional steam rack approach
to forming the fuel lines, thus reducing energy consumption and maintenance
costs, while producing a part with a more exact dimensional setting. |
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Combination conveyor oven features multiple control heat zones, infrared
radiant heaters, convection re-circulation plug blowers, stainless steel spray
quench, and full PLC process controls.
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| Infrared Cure Oven
(In Line Cure Of Friction Material)
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed and built
three Infrared Cure Oven And Cooling Tunnel Systems for a large automotive supply manufacturer.
The application is heat curing and cooling brake pads (curing of exothermic
friction material after pressing). The largest of the three systems has a
maximum production throughput in excess of 1,000 brake pads per hour. |
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Infrared conveyor and cooling tunnel system features two conveyor belts. The
top conveyor belt carries brake pad parts through the multiple infrared heat
zones thus curing the friction material. The parts are then transferred to the
bottom tier conveyor where they are carried through the cooling tunnel. The
fast, controllable infrared heating and the double tier design dramatically
reduced the overall space requirement of the process, while increasing process
and flow control.
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Conveyor Oven And Quench (Thermal Setting
Oven)
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed and built a Conveyor Oven
And Water Quench System for a large medical supply manufacturer. The
application is thermal setting of a memory alloy. |
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Conveyor oven features multiple control zones, infrared radiant heaters, high
temperature re-circulation axial fans, stainless steel water quench, and full PLC process
controls.
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Infrared Heating Technologies Delivers
Furnace To Drill Bit Manufacturer
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| Infrared Heating Technologies designed,
built, and installed a Electric Drop-Bottom
Batch Furnace And Control System to The Morris Wood Tool Company, Inc., a
manufacturer of carbide drill bit tooling. The 28.8KW electric infrared
furnace system features a drop-bottom rail system for ease of loading and
fuzzy logic adaptive tuning programmable process and temperature control. The
system is capable of selectively drawing drill bit shanks without reducing the
hardness of the cutting end of the tooling in extremely short heat cycles
(less than 5 minutes from a cold start). The system has a maximum temperature
capability of 2000oF, and can be used for drawing, hardening,
brazing, and other applications. |
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Infrared Die Pre-HeaterTM
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| Infrared Heating Technologies shipped several Infrared Die Pre-HeatersTM
to Doktas, a large aluminum high pressure die casting company in Turkey. |
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Above: Infrared Die Pre-HeaterTM between die
halves inside high pressure aluminum die cast machine.
The Infrared Die Pre-HeaterTM heats much faster, more
efficiently, and with better uniformity than a standard electric or gas
infrared die heater.
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Infrared Boot Heater™
Eliminates Ergonomics Problem
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Infrared Heating Technologies delivered 6 single
and 2 double heat zone Infrared Boot Heaters TM to Delphi Automotive Steering
Systems in Athens, Alabama. The Infrared Boot Heater TM is an electric infrared
heater and control system designed to heat thermoplastic and polymer boots for
applications requiring placement of the boots on steering assemblies, CV joints,
etc. The Infrared Boot Heater TM heats and expands the boot in a matter of 4-5
seconds. This slight expansion virtually eliminates the force required to install
the boot. The subsequent cooling of the boot then makes a better seal than if the
boot had been forced on without the application of heat. The response from the
assembly line employees that have used this product has been extremely positive.
In many cases, ergonomics problems have been virtually eliminated and production
has increased.
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"The Infrared Boot Heater TM virtually eliminates the
force required to install the boot. This reduction in force results in the
elimination of the ergonomics problem associated with placing the boot on the
steering assembly." Director of Research and Development, Delphi Automotive
Steering Systems.
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Infrared Heater Reduces Cycle Time For Teflon Joining
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Infrared Heating Technologies recently delivered and
installed a custom designed and manufactured Infrared Heater and Power
Supply/Controls System to Siebe Automotive in Knoxville, TN. The 10 KW
water-cooled electric-infrared system features an automated temperature ramp,
hold, and internal air quench for joining Teflon-based materials for sensor
applications. The system is able to join a full range of part sizes
without any furnace tooling change. Also, the Infrared System joins the parts in
less than 1/4 the time required previously in conventional resistive furnaces,
and is "on" only when a part is present leading to substantial savings in energy
usage.
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Infrared Heating Technologies manufactures a full line
of industrial thermal processing systems including infrared conveyor belt ovens,
infrared tunnel ovens, infrared heaters, infrared dryers, convection ovens,
combination ovens, batch ovens, batch furnaces, on-line
furnaces, tube furnaces, and several
other specialty systems custom designed for specific heating applications. Tell us about your application and ideal process profile and let Infrared Heating Technologies
show you how to achieve it efficiently and reproducibly.
Call (865) 574-9784 To Speak
With An Engineer About Your Application
Or Email Your Inquiry To info@infraredheating.com
- Telephone
- 1.865.574.9784
- FAX
- 1.865.574.9793
- Postal address
- 2010 HWY 58, Suite 2120, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Electronic mail
- General Information: info@infraredheating.com
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