BriskHeat, a provider of flexible heating, insulating, temperature-control and composite-curing solutions, opened a calibration center in Shenzhen, China. It joins the company’s ACR hot bonder calibration and repair centers in Columbus, Ohio, and AeroNed B.V. in Rotterdam Netherlands. These centers are manned by technical product specialists and sales engineers to provide field training and phone support.

Abbott Furnace Co. will host its fifth annual Continuous Brazing Symposium in Puebla, Mexico, May 21-23. Attendees will hear from experts in the areas of continuous furnaces, filler metals, belts, CQI-9, furnace atmosphere generation, atmosphere flow control, troubleshooting, maintenance and optimization.

A spring session of modern furnace brazing school will be held May 7-9 at Wall Colmonoy’s Aerobraze Brazing Engineering Center in Cincinnati.

The Columbus Flat Roll Division of Steel Dynamics Inc. will invest $140 million to add a continuous hot-dip galvanizing line at its plant in Columbus, Miss. The line, designed and manufactured by Fives, will be capable of producing 400,000 tons per year of unexposed automotive steel grades and specialized steel grades.

Series CL20 offers an alternative to fixed resistors and is optimized for inrush current limiting in heater applications, precharge and degaussing circuits, and overcurrent protection. 

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.