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Nine industries, mapped zone by zone
Most heater sites list industries and stop there. Each of these pages carries a process diagram with the heated zones marked, and a table that maps the machine you already have to the element type each position wants.
Pick your process
If yours is not here, the last one covers it. One off industrial heating is most of what a works like this actually does.
- Injection MouldingEvery zone on the machine, from the dryer to the mould, with the element type that suits it.
- ExtrusionBarrel, adapter and die head heating for pipe, profile, sheet and film lines.
- Blow MouldingPreform reheat, extrusion head and neck tooling heating for PET and extrusion blow lines.
- Packaging MachinerySealing bars, cutting and creasing tools, shrink tunnels and hot melt tanks.
- Die and MouldHot stamping dies, press platens and mould preheat, where the heater lives inside the tool.
- Food ProcessingTanks, sealing tools, dryers and jacketed lines, in plant that gets washed down.
- Pharmaceutical MachineryBlister and tube sealing, granulation drying, jacketed vessels and validated temperature measurement.
- Rubber and ElastomersCuring and vulcanising platens, extruder barrels and mould heating.
- Other Industrial HeatingOvens, tanks, ducts, pipes and surfaces, in plant that does not fit any of the categories above.
Why the zone table exists
An injection moulding machine has at least six places that have to be held at a temperature, and each one wants a different element. A band heater on a barrel, a coil on a manifold and a cartridge in a platen are three different specifications, three different failure modes and three different things to get wrong.
Putting them in one table, against the zone they belong to, is the fastest way for a maintenance engineer to work out what to order.
Send us the machine, not the part number
Old part numbers do not travel between suppliers. The machine make and model, the zone, the measured diameter and the temperature do. A photograph of the old element beside a tape measure is usually enough to start.