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Catalytic Industrial Ovens - conveyor IR / infrared ovens as drying ovens equipment; convection oven technology

	Catalytic infrared heating saves up to 80% of the energy & time needed by convection ovens or electric infrared ovens.

Flameless Catalytic Infrared Heaters / Ovens
Provide Optimum Curing for Liquid and Powder
Finishes on Metal, Plastic and Wood

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APPLICATIONS:
• Deere / Hitachi, Kernersville, NC
• Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corporation, Lincoln, NE
• Link-Belt Construction Equipment, Lexington, KY
• Streator Unlimited, Streator, IL
• Ameristar Fence Products, Tulsa, OK
• Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I)

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Case Study #1:
Catalytic Infrared Heaters Reduce Cure Cycle,
Minimize Conveyor Length

Catalytic Infrared Heaters are the choice of Deere / Hitachi

Catalytic infrared heaters were key to improvements in painting process
efficiency, reducing drying time from 6-8 hours to about 15 minutes for the
plant's 20-ton and 23-ton hydraulic excavators, according to Pete Zimmerman,
Senior Manufacturing Engineer.

The Catalytic infrared heaters not only accelerated paint drying, but
reduced oven size by half. This significantly lowered building addition
and conveyor system costs for Deere/Hitachi.

The length of the Catalytic oven is 100’ compared to the more than 200’
that would have been needed for a conventional convection forced air oven.
A conventional oven that size would also have been cost-prohibitive,
according to a plant study.

The Catalytic infrared heaters eliminated the need for "parking space"
for air drying assembled units, and shortened required conveyor length.
The cost of the conveyor, which transports parts weighing up to 12,000
pounds, is $800 per linear foot.

Four basic weldments make up the excavators that the plant produces –
undercarriages, frames, booms and arms. The booms and arms are the
digging components of the machines.

Primer, black, yellow and orange paints are applied as two-component urethanes.
The excavating machine weldments, which weigh 10,000 to 12,000 lbs, are
painted using an electrostatic air spray system.

The Catalytic infrared heaters dry the paint sufficiently in 15 minutes, allowing
workers to walk on the weldments, demask them and apply decals.

In addition to the 20-ton and 23-ton excavators, the Kernersville plant paints
booms and arm weldments for Deere/Hitachi 27, 33, and 45-ton excavators.

Catalytic Industrial Systems has designed, manufactured, tested and installed
gas-fired catalytic infrared heaters for industrial processes since 1963.

The long-wave infrared radiation produced by Catalytic infrared heaters is more
readily absorbed by most materials than the shorter wave energy of conventional
IR systems. As a result, Catalytic infrared heaters often produce major savings in
total energy use.

In Catalytic Industrial installations, the catalyst and electric preheating
elements are housed in modular emitter panels, which interlock in a range of
sizes and configurations to direct the heat in a way that is most beneficial.
System maintenance is minimal, because there are no moving parts to wear
and no bulbs or tubes to replace.

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Catalytic Industrial Systems
713 N. 20th Street • PO Box 827 • Independence, KS 67301
E-mail: sales@catalyticirovens.com
(800) 835-0557

Catalytic Infrared Heaters are approved by Factory Mutual

Catalytic Convection Ovens