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New Jersey based Anderson Thermal Devices, Inc. manufactures innovative industrial infrared heaters for the thousands of curing, drying, annealing, sintering, and preheating applications found in the process heating industry. End products made via industrial infrared heaters consist of nearly everything you can see or touch at home or work— flexible packaging, coated metal and plastic parts, fabrics, carpeting, foods, laminates and thousands more!

Industrial infrared heaters hold many advantages over convection systems on manufacturing lines. The ability of electric industrial infrared heaters to heat up and cool down rapidly is paramount. Electric infrared can be turned on and off quickly like a light bulb. Infrared heaters take only seconds to reach full power. The electromagnetic waves become thermal energy that radiates to the product very quickly. The ability of infrared to heat a product is limited only by the product’s ability to absorb infrared energy. When infrared is the heat source, heat is delivered directly to the product and not into a carrier medium such as air. Infrared can be directed to precisely heat only select areas of an assembly without overheating other areas that may be heat sensitive. Reliability on the manufacturing line is another great benefit of industrial infrared heaters and systems. They have no moving parts or motors. They also tend to be more compact in size saving valuable production floor space.

Conversely, gas convection systems need time to heat up and to cool down. To heat a given substrate to temperature using convection, the oven must reach its operational temperature and the substrate must be subjected to that heated environment for the time needed for it to reach its optimal temperature. The convection oven may take many minutes to reach its operational temperature.

Due to the faster heating rates and the high degree of control available with electric, most end products can be heated faster than in a convection oven. Thus, with industrial infrared heaters it is possible to decrease the dwell time in the oven while increasing throughput— greater efficiency equals energy savings.

To learn more about standard or process specific industrial infrared heaters available through Anderson Thermal Devices, contact the company’s headquarters in New Jersey today. Their sales engineers will help you with your application challenges and work with you to find the right solution for your manufacturing line. The company also offers a laboratory for testing projects in development and a pilot line for short runs.

About Anderson Thermal Devices: Based in Hawthorne New Jersey, Anderson Thermal Devices designs and manufactures both standard and custom industrial infrared heaters. Additionally they sell direct replacement lamps for all major infrared lamp manufacturers to the process heating industry worldwide. For more information, please go to AndersonThermal or write: JMckechnie@AndersonThermal.com

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