Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems opened of a 7,700 ft² technical center in Livonia, Mich., to serve its Midwestern customers.

Two standard variations of ceramic insulation for box furnaces are rigid ceramic fiber boards and flexible blankets. They are manufactured using strands of refractory silicate compressed or woven into a lightweight textile, with excellent inherent strength and low thermal conductivity.

Each NATCOM burner is custom built to meet each application and furnace configuration.

Morris L. Crafton, founder of Thermcraft Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., died in February at the age of 93. Crafton and his wife Clara founded the oven and furnace maker Thermacraft in 1971, initially focused on making replacement heating elements for industrial and laboratory furnace applications. 

Suited for emissions monitoring of boiler, furnace and other combustion applications, Model E6000 measures up to six gases simultaneously (O_², CO₁, NO₁, NO₂, SO₂, C_XH_Y(HC), H₂S) and has a built-in printer and full-color graphic display.

A high volume rotary furnace system built by Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., will be used to dry and calcine advanced iron phosphate powder.

Carbolite Gero has designed a pair of MTT furnaces for extracting carbon-14 and fixed tritium.

Thermal technology provider Despatch Industries, Minneapolis, received an order for a custom production furnace from Bloom Energy, Sunnyvale, Calif., a provider of solid-oxide fuel cell technology.