Aerobraze Engineered Technologies will remanufacture regenerative heat exchangers for F-16 fighter aircraft.

A company in the automotive industry will utilize a fuel-fired conveyor oven to cure an adhesive to bond dissimilar materials at 500°F (260°C). The oven, designed and manufactured by Lewco Inc., Sandusky, Ohio, includes a single, direct-fired natural gas heater box with a capacity of 1 million BTU/hr.

Emerson will provide automation technologies, software and analytics for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex in Qatar. The $6 billion integrated polymers project, a joint venture between QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical, is currently under construction and scheduled to go online in late 2026.

A Midwest-based flexographic printer will utilize a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) for the abatement of volatile organic compounds from a central impression press.

Valmet will deliver boiler conversions and emission reduction solutions for Veolia Group’s Hungarian subsidiary at its power plant in Oroszlány, Hungary. The order includes the conversion of two coal-fired boilers to bubbling fluidized bed combustion to enable the boilers to run mainly on biomass fuel.

Reading Bakery Systems installed the two-zone convection oven in its RBS Science & Innovation Center. 

While convection and conduction heating are staples in many industries, radiation heating is less common. The advantages that radiation heating — namely, infrared heating — offers for industrial applications should not be overlooked, says one heating systems supplier. 

Jeff Kent was named general manager of Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, Wis. 

Superior Boiler, Hutchinson, Kan., completed its 20,000th board-registered boiler. The two-pass Wichita steam boiler includes a 2,000-hp capacity and a design pressure of 200 psi steam. The 13’ tall wetback boiler will be delivered to a Midwest soybean processing facility, where it will be used to create process steam as it creates domestic, renewable energy for the biodiesel industry.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) recently marked its 25th anniversary. Established by the Clean Act Amendments of 1990, the CSB began operations on January 4, 1998.