Types of Industrial Furnaces And Their Top Manufacturers In The World

Types of Industrial Furnaces

Industrial furnaces are used for a wide range of activities within an industrial unit. The manufacturers came up with diverse types of products in this category to meet, the demands of the marketing world. Given below are a list of some of the types of industrial furnaces, along with their application, which has seen a steep rise in demand, over the last year:

1. Ashing Furnaces

This furnace determines the quantity of ash which is formed after a sample is burnt. Apart from this, the Ashing furnace also determines the contaminants in the sample, which is sometimes only present when ash is produced. Ashing can be defined as the preconcentration method to determine or trace any substances before chemical analysis. Ashing furnace finds its application in petroleum, oil and coal industries.

2. Calcination Furnaces

Calcination furnaces help in preparing raw materials for raw processing or to recover the base material following other processes.

Calcination is a heat treatment processes where samples including minerals or ceramic powders are heated below the melting point to induce a phase transition, thermal decomposition or to remove a volatile fraction.

3. Tempering Furnaces

Tempering furnaces finds its application in iron-based industries. It is used in iron industries after iron-based alloys have been subjected to hardening or quenching, which can cause excess hardness, stress and brittleness.

The process of heating steel to a specific temperature and then immediately cooling it down at the room temperature is called tempering.

4. Annealing Furnaces

Annealing is a heat process treatment, which is used to soften a sample to improve a cold working, to enhance its mechanical configuration and electrical properties.

Annealing furnaces heat up the material and maintain the temperature before cooling it at a suitable rate.

5. Sintering Furnaces

Sintering furnaces are utilized to lessen the porosity of a material and to upgrade a particular property including quality, translucency, warm conductivity, or electrical conductivity.

The sintering procedure works by shaping and compacting a strong mass of material utilizing weight or warmth without liquefying the example to the point of liquefaction.

6. Tensile Testing Furnaces

Tensile testing furnaces are utilized to quantify a definitive elasticity, yield quality, strain-solidifying, and a scope of different properties of a material.

These furnaces work by exposing the example to controlled pressure until complete disappointment, and this is a prominent test strategy for quality control.

7. Rotary Tube Furnaces

Rotational cylinder furnaces are circular shaped furnaces, that rotate during heat treatment and are frequently utilized for constant materials preparing as they can apply heat in numerous warm control zones.

These furnaces are flexible and can be utilized to produce a range of materials including bond clinker and alumina, or utilized for oxidation.

Industrial Fact - "The global market for Industrial furnaces is projected to reach USD$ 15 billion by 2024, driven and sustained by opportunities offered by the metal and steel processing industries."

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Top manufacturers of Industrial furnaces

There are as many as 300 listed industrial furnace manufacturers operating from 34 countries across the globe.  

Some of the leading brands' industrial furnace manufacturers in the market based on their sales revenue, price, gross margin, main products:

Name of the Company	Country Located in
Andritz	Austria
Tenova	Italy
Despatch	Pakistan
Primetals Technologies	United Kingdom
Aichelin Group	Austria
ALD	India
Inductotherm Corporation	USA
SECO/WARWICK	Poland
Ipsen	France
Nachi-Fujikoshi	India