Watlow and Heatcon Composite Systems entered into an expanded distributor agreement to provide standard products, services and thermal systems to the aerospace industry.

Intended for use in a heat-treating application, each multi-unit, modular pot furnace is connected to a single freestanding NEMA 1 control panel. 

Designed for laboratory testing applications, the rotary furnace provides temperatures up to 2192°F (1200°C). 

Customized inline air duct heaters are helping an aerospace company apply heat to regulate the fueling of spacecraft. 

In cooperation with productronica 2021, IPC hosted a hand soldering competition on November 16-19. Skilled competitors — 21 hand soldering experts representing 14 electronics companies — demonstrated their expertise in hand soldering at the first-in-person trade show held in Germany since the onset of the COVID pandemic.

Under a licensing agreement with Sweden’s Nycast, Kanthal has the exclusive right to market the company’s technology for heating large amounts of process gas at high pressure up to 2012°F (1100°C).

Kanthal will sell its semiconductor capital equipment business to Yield Engineering Systems Inc. (YES) of Fremont, Calif. Kanthal will continue to produce its semiconductor and solar-related, resistance-based cassettes and heating elements.

Model DHI is designed to screw directly into the top of 55-gal drums. The drum immersion heaters are designed for maximum thermal efficiency. 

Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif., purchased a vacuum curing/debulking table for composite manufacture and repair.

The industrial process heating market is broad and touches almost everything around us. To illustrate, consider just a few of the areas of daily life made possible by process heating.