Showing posts with label industrial heating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industrial heating. Show all posts

Hotfoil-EHS Manufacturing and Distribution Facilities

Hotfoil-EHS, Inc. is an organization with over 70 employees and an impressive engineering capability. Through continued re-investment of profits, Hotfoil-EHS acquired additional large fabrication facilities and today is a full-service engineering, design, and manufacturing company of industrial heating equipment. Their Hamilton, NJ headquarters provides 68,000-square-feet of manufacturing space, with other manufacturing and distribution facilities located in Chattanooga, TN, LaPorte, TX, and Birmingham, England.

609-588-0900

Industrial Process Heating: Electric and Fuel Based

Electric heater used on industrial hopper throat.
Electric heater used on industrial hopper throat.
Process heating operations supply thermal energy to transform materials like metal, plastic, rubber, limestone (cement), glass, ceramics, and biomass into a wide variety of industrial and consumer products. Industrial heating processes include drying, heat treating, curing and forming, calcining, smelting, and other operations. Examples of process heating systems include furnaces, ovens, dryers, heaters, and kilns. Many of these systems are mature technologies used ubiquitously throughout manufacturing. Process heating is used to raise or maintain the temperature of substances involved in the manufacturing process, such as the use of heat to melt scrap in electric arc furnaces to make steel, to separate components of crude oil in petroleum refining, to dry paint in automobile manufacturing, or to process food for packaging.

Electricity-based process heating systems transform materials through direct and indirect processes. For example, electric current is applied directly to suitable materials to achieve direct resistance heating; alternatively, high-frequency energy can be inductively coupled to suitable materials to achieve indirect heating. Electricity-based process heating systems are used for heating, drying, curing, melting, and forming. Examples of electricity-based process heating technologies include electric arc furnace technology, infrared radiation, induction heating, radio frequency drying, laser heating, and microwave processing.

Gas burners for process heating
Gas burners for process heating.
Fuel-based process heating systems generate heat by combusting solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels, then transferring the heat directly or indirectly to the material. Hot combustion gases are either placed in direct contact with the material (i.e., direct heating via convection) or routed through radiant burner tubes or panels that rely on radiant heat transfer to keep the gases separate from the material (i.e., indirect heating). Examples of fuel-based process heating equipment include furnaces, ovens, kilns, melters, and high-temperature generators.

For information on any industrial heating application, contact Hotfoil-EHS at 609.588.0900 or visit http://www.hotfoilehs.com.

Rely on Experienced Welding and Heating Applications Experts for Improved Outcome and Efficiency

Product Experts
Work with the manufacturer's experts for better outcomes
When it comes to selecting the right equipment for welding and industrial heating jobs, projects and tasks are best completed and accomplished through the proper application of the right resources. There exists an access point to high level technical knowledge and assistance that can be easily tapped and brought to bear on your successful task or project completion. The manufacturer's own internal experts.
 
Manufacturers provide services that may help you save time and cost, while also achieving a better outcome for the entire project. Consider a few elements the technical sale rep brings to your project:
  • Product Knowledge: Product managers and sales support personnel will be current on product offerings, proper application, and capabilities. They also have information regarding what products may be obsolete in the near future. This is an information source at a level not generally accessible to the public via the Internet.
  • Experience: As a project engineer, you may be treading on fresh ground regarding some aspects of your current assignment. There can be real benefit in connecting to a source with past exposure to your current issue. 
  • Access: Through the manufacturer's internal applications people, you may be able to establish a connection to “behind the scenes” information not publicly available. The people at the manufacturer can provide answers to your application questions.
Certainly, any solutions proposed are likely to be based upon the products sold by the manufacturer. That is where considering and evaluating the benefits of any proposed solutions become part of achieving the best project outcome.

Develop a professional, mutually beneficial relationship with the manufacturer's technical sales team, and don't be shy to develop a professional and trusting relationship. Their success is tied to your success and they are eager to help you.