Electric infrared heater

for heatingcuringpre-treatment processes

With over 40 years’ experience, QS Group are national and international leaders in integrated automation engineering. QS builds industrial components used by white goods manufacturers, together with systems and moulds for sheet metal, and plastic and foam processing. QS needed a larger, custom-designed pre-heat oven system for the plastics division of their foaming plant. As leaders in their sector, QS Group’s experienced design and engineering team knew exactly what they required. Providing all their technical specifications in the supplied design drawings, the oven would achieve increased consistency in heating times, raising the temperature of two different materials by an increased speed of 20°C–30°C over the norm. Knowing Ceramicx’ infrared technology capabilities, QS opted for an array of custom shortwave quartz halogen tube elements with 180° gold coating across two panels. The inclusion of custom aluminium clad steel reflectors would also maximise their radiant heat efficiency. Together with custom-built pre-heat ovens, Ceramicx are also regular suppliers of infrared components to QS. Over the years, we’ve supplied – and continue to supply – custom and standard-sized infrared Fast IR system components for more efficient drying and curing processes. Fitted with quartz halogen heater tubes as specified, the shortwave Fast IR assemblies ensure QS has the precision heat needed to cure bitumen-based noise dampeners for dishwasher production. We’ve supplied custom variations on our FAST IR 305 and FAST IR 500 products over the years for this very process.