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[October 2002]
Kanthal Launches New Range of Customised Heating Elements
In a further development of its concept of producing customised furnace heating systems for specific and demanding applications, Kanthal AB has launched five new grades of Kanthal Super heating elements.Designed for use at very high temperatures, the key feature of the new elements is that they work directly in the furnace atmosphere without muffles to protect them. Kanthal says that no other heating element currently available has the same capability.
Suitable for nitrogen, hydrogen, vacuum and mixtures of endogas and reducing furnace atmospheres, Kanthal Super elements are ready-made for use in production and laboratory furnaces in the glass, steel, electronics, ceramics and heat treatment industries.
One of these new elements, Kanthal Super ER, offers the benefit of working in a range of different furnace atmospheres. It is now possible, therefore, in one furnace to operate firing cycles where the atmosphere condition can be altered - during the cycle, between oxidising, inert, endogas and reducing atmosphere.
Suitable for temperatures up to 1600°C, Kanthal Super ER elements are said to be equally suitable for oxidising processes. Another benefit is that they can be replaced, if necessary, whilst the furnace is hot, thereby minimising downtime. The main applications are seen as most types of sintering furnaces working in reduced atmospheres such as dry hydrogen, nitrogen and endogas.
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