An electric air-heating solutions company needed a quick thermal management solution to prevent overheating of the air heater element used in its flanged inline heaters. Employed in industrial processing and research and development settings, the heaters are built to handle a range of demanding process heat applications.

Now that you have a general idea of the types of heaters that are available, how will you go about specifying the right one for your application?

A Southeast Asian aerospace parts manufacturer purchased a dual-purpose electron-beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) and EB welding system. The machine, designed and manufactured by Sciaky Inc., will be customized with special controls to switch from 3D printing to welding.

Cleaning and surface preparation are important production stages in many manufacturing industries, especially automotive. For example, machined parts and subassemblies must be thoroughly clean before they move into subsequent stages of assembly or coating. 

Polyimide heater kit contains thin and flexible heaters with adhesive backing to conform to most flat or curved surfaces. With 15 different shapes, the kit can suit almost any application.

Charles Sears, the president of Dri-Air Industries Inc., East Windsor, Conn., passed away on August 5 after a recent battle with cancer.

An online document that defines “the baseline knowledge and experience required to be considered competent to perform” furnace brazing in aerospace special process manufacturing was released.

Watlow Electric Manufacturing received a 2018 Supplier Excellence Award from Lam Research Corp., a global supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry.

Although Heatec makes, sells, and services a range of heaters, liquid storage tanks, and related products, their goods are part of a total heating system solution. Heatec offers complete design services for heaters that are used at facilities such as oil and gas producers, chemical producers, food producers, food and pharmaceutical packaging, paper and film converting, roofing manufacturers, power plants, hotmix asphalt (HMA) plants, asphalt terminals, emulsion terminals, and concrete producers.

A water bath heater typically consists of a shell that contains a fire tube and process heating bundle. A burner is mounted on one end of the fire tube, which doubles back to an exhaust stack.