Industrial ovens are thermal processing machines that provide various applications with the very important process of heat treatment. During this process, heat speeds up the molecular activity inside an object. Inside solid objects, molecules are arranged in lattices that vibrate from the heat, while in gases, these molecules collide. This activity changes the properties of the object it is heating, and strengthens it.

Industrial ovens have a wide range of applications in countless industries, such as: manufacturing, electronics, food and beverage, medicine and healthcare, pharmaceuticals, chemical, research and development, plastics, aerospace, automotive and metal forming.

Industrial ovens help make stronger metal products, more sanitary healthcare facilities and more versatile extruded polymer products. They are also used to treat products like steel coils, automotive parts, tubing, electronics, building materials, fuel cells, carpeting and textiles. In addition, laboratories use them to learn more about and refine industrial heat transference (laboratory oven). Such research leads to the reduction and elimination of heat transfer inefficiencies and the introduction of new heat treat applications.

Specifically, they’re used to carry out processes including: sintering, curing and powder coating. Note: Sintering is the process by which large particles are created out a pile of small, fine particles via the application of heat below the melting point. The goal of curing is to solidify a material by heating and drying it at a constant temperature. By placing a product in a powder coating oven for two to 10 minutes, which may be either convection or infrared, the powder coating on a product melts and flows. After this, while it is still in the oven, the product is briefly exposed to ultraviolet light, which cures and hardens the finish.