Short-Wave Infrared
Infrared radiation travels through the air without warming it up and turns into heat once in contact with a substance (object or body).
- Uniform heating of fragile products, painting on steel and plastic, drying after coating, heating of thermoset materials
- Heating of conveyed products or local heating
- Treatment area from a few square inches to several square meters
- Drying of paper, polymerization and drying after coating, heating of thermoplastic composites…
- Indoor or outdoor heating ; heating of stock material, polymerization of thermoset materials
Technical data:
- Tungsten filament in a tube filled with a neutral gas (halogen)
- Filament temperature: > 2000°C
- Inertia: 1 second
- Power density: 5 to 500 kW/m²
- Electric technology only
Medium-Wave Infrared
Dryer with individual settings for each zone, long life
Implantation in ovens and tunnels, or to boost existing equipment
- Vaporization of liquids
- Coating of plastic, textile, paper…
- Processing of plastic materials, thermoforming
- Thermal treatment for the food industry
- Activation of adhesive materials, lamination…
- Pre-drying and heating
- Drying of printing ink on sheetfed offset machine
- Gelling of plastic materials
- Plastic welding
Technical data:
- Surface temperature: 700°C < T < 1200°C
- Inertia: 10 seconds to 2 minutes
- Power density: 5 to 70 kW/m²
- Electric or gas technology
Long-Wave Infrared
Heating of plastic materials on thermoforming lines
Technical data:
- Surface temperature: 300°C < T < 700°C
- Inertia: 5 to 10 minutes
- Power density: 5 à 40 kW/m²
- Radiation yield 60%
- Electric or gas technology
