THERMOCOAX designs high-performance Heater Elements for high-pressure, vacuum and corrosive environments, as standard components or for custom assemblies.
One of the earliest applications of electricity was to use the resistant properties of some materials, typically wire, to create a heating effect. Today this is used in thousands of devices, from domestic items through to industrial furnaces.
THERMOCOAX provides custom designed heaters for inclusion in heating systems, from very simple to highly sophisticated applications.
Heating elements for every environment
The fundamentals of electric heating are broadly the same, but requirements and solutions differ widely across industry sectors. Similar principles operate between a large furnace constructed as an individual unit and a mass-produced domestic heater. But there are also many cases where no ready-made solution is available.
This is particularly true where heating elements must conform to particular shapes, sometimes incorporating tight bends. Heating elements can also be used in extreme conditions of high pressure, vacuum, or corrosive environments.
Solutions for every application
The THERMOCOAX Group provides heaters designed to be shaped and incorporated into heating systems, manufactured in our factories in Europe and the USA. At every stage of a project, we provide full engineering and technical assistance. In addition, our assembly workshops offer semi-finished products, as well as full assemblies.
THERMOCOAX Heaters are suitable for applications ranging from cryogenic temperatures, up to 1,000°C, with the capability of either very low heat dissipation, or very high power (from a few watts to tens of kilowatts). Heat can be generated exactly where it is required, therefore power losses are reduced, and power consumption is lowered.
Highly integrable
The advanced technology of our Mineral Insulated heating cable provides heating solutions that are highly integrable.
The diameter of the heating cable is typically from 1mm to 2mm, with two identical and independent heating coils allowing for redundancy. Heating elements consist of one or two straight current-carrying cores in a flexible metal sheath, electrically insulated from one another and from the sheath by means of a highly compacted refractory powder.
Easy to use and fit
Why use THERMOCOAX Heating Elements? Because the technology offers many possibilities for shaping: for example in thermoplastic forming, such as PEEK plastic parts. Based on our extensive automotive experience, we use heating tools to join and weld PEEK parts together without direct contact.
THERMOCOAX heaters can be attached directly to metal parts and are easy to fit. The tight bending radii possible, only three times the outer diameter, allows for detailed and small scale working.
THERMOCOAX provides heaters designed to be shaped and incorporated into heating systems, from very simple to more sophisticated applications, all custom designed and engineered to operate in challenging environments.
The range is extensive: as standard components, and for custom assemblies. To help us define your heater or your solution, don’t hesitate to describe us your project and our team of experts will contact you.