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Industrial Ovens Overview

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The use of industrial ovens is far more widespread than most people imagine. The Wisconsin Oven Corporation’s website lists twenty industries served by their industrial oven business, including: metal treating aluminum, laboratory educational, pharmaceutical, environmental, plastics, rubber, electronics, printing lithograph, composite curing, heat treating, industrial, finishing powder coating, textile, automotive, foundry, packaging, assembly, wood finishing, aerospace and metal finishing. In these different industries, industrial ovens may be used in the following applications: adhesive curing, aging, aluminum billet preheating, annealing, baking, bonding, composite curing, drying, epoxy curing, finishing, heat forming, heat treating, homogenizing, incubating, life-testing, normalizing, powder curing, quenching, shrink fitting, solution treating, tempering, varnish curing, and wrinkle-free garment processing.

Types of industrial ovens include batch ovens, convection ovens, curing ovens, safety ovens, conveyor ovens, vacuum ovens, infrared ovens, and print plate ovens. Batch ovens are the most common as they process one type of product in single groupings. Conveyor ovens are also called continuous ovens as they move large amounts of products through the ovens on conveyor belts. Heat sources can be gas, electricity, steam or thermal fluid heat. Conduction, convection and infrared heating are all means of heating the products for the desired results. Conduction occurs by forcing heat directly on the objects. Convection involves heating the air molecules around the object which causes a top-down heating effect on the product. Infrared heating uses radiant heat to heat the object itself and not the air around it. Scores of companies can be found that specialize in the different types of industrial ovens.

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