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Immersion heaters and heating blankets play an essential role in providing precise and uniform heating for various chemical baths and processes. They are used in a variety of sectors for specific applications such as preparation, finishing, treatment, cleaning, heating, temperature maintenance, and frost prevention. A range of complementary products is offered to meet the needs for process control and monitoring.
Surface treatment
Thermal precision
Immersion heaters optimize surface treatment processes while ensuring the quality of results and extending equipment lifespan.
Immersion heaters play an essential role in this industrial sector, which requires precise and controlled temperatures for various chemical and mechanical processes such as degreasing, pickling, electroplating, anodizing, dipping baths, light alloy treatment, and passivation.
Electroplating
Guaranteed coating quality
Immersion heaters play a crucial role in heating and maintaining electrolytic baths at specific temperatures.
Electroplating, which involves depositing a metallic layer onto a surface by electrolysis, requires precise temperature to ensure homogeneous results and optimal metal adhesion. Types of heated baths: nickel plating, chrome plating, copper plating, zinc plating.
Printed circuit boards
Reliability of finished products
In the manufacturing of printed circuit boards (PCBs), immersion heaters play a crucial role in chemical treatment and finishing processes.
They are used to heat various baths necessary for chemical etching, cleaning, degreasing, stripping, electroplating, or the application of protective layers, thus ensuring precise and homogeneous results. Types of heated baths: ferric chloride or ammonium persulfate, alkaline or solvent baths, electrolytic baths (for depositing tin, gold, or silver onto PCB contacts to protect them against corrosion and improve their conductivity).
Semiconductors
Control and precision
Immersion heaters are essential equipment in the semiconductor industry, where precise and controlled processes are necessary for manufacturing advanced electronic components. Their role is to uniformly and precisely heat acidic or alkaline chemical baths used at different stages of semiconductor manufacturing.
The main applications in this sector include wafer cleaning and preparation, chemical etching, electroplating, thermal oxidation, and residue cleaning and removal. Types of heated baths: sulfuric acid, hydrofluoric acid, solvent mixtures, phosphoric acid, electrolytic baths (for depositing copper, gold, nickel, or palladium).
Aerospace
Performance
Immersion heaters find essential applications in the aerospace sector, where they contribute to various industrial processes related to manufacturing, material treatment, and component maintenance. Immersion heaters ensure optimal performance by maintaining precise temperatures for various chemical and thermal processes.
In the manufacturing of aircraft parts, such as an aluminum panel, immersion heaters are used to heat an anodizing bath. This process improves the metal’s corrosion resistance, which is essential for years of flight in varied weather conditions. Similarly, for embedded electronic components, immersion heaters are used to heat baths for applying gold layers to connectors to ensure optimal conductivity. Types of heated baths: treatment of specific alloys (aluminum, titanium, stainless steel), anodizing for the treatment of aluminum and alloys, pickling, alkaline cleaning, electrolytic baths for depositing protective or functional layers on critical parts (gold for conductivity, nickel for wear resistance, cadmium for corrosion protection).
Automotive
Parts quality and durability
Immersion heaters are widely used in the automotive industry for various manufacturing, surface treatment, cleaning, and maintenance processes. Their role is essential for precisely and efficiently heating chemical baths or solutions in industrial workshops. Their use ensures the quality, durability, and performance of automotive parts and components.
Immersion heaters are essential in the finishing and surface protection processes of automotive parts to improve their mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. Types of heated baths: electrolytic baths for depositing metallic coatings (chrome, nickel, zinc), alkaline degreasing for part cleaning.
Jewelry, watches and luxury
Precision processing
Immersion heaters are indispensable in this broad sector for ensuring precise chemical treatments, achieving quality finishes, and maintaining product durability and aesthetics. Their ability to heat uniformly and controllably makes them a key tool in this sector where equipment must withstand corrosive chemical solutions.
Immersion heaters are particularly used in processes related to metal treatment and finishing: heating chemical baths necessary for the preparation, cleaning, finishing, and decoration of jewelry. Types of heated baths: acid baths to remove oxides, impurities, or undesirable surface layers on precious metals (gold, silver, platinum), alkaline cleaning, electroplating (electrolytic baths for depositing decorative or protective metallic layers, such as gold, silver, rhodium, or platinum), electropolishing, dipping and alloy manufacturing, chemical solutions for patina effects, finishing baths against oxidation.
Medical devices
Safety and temperature constancy
Immersion heaters play an essential role in the medical device industry by heating cleaning, sterilization, decontamination, and material treatment solutions.
Their ability to maintain precise and constant temperatures ensures the safety, sterility, and quality of medical devices, thereby contributing to patient safety and compliance with strict industry standards. Types of heated baths: sterilization solutions (hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, alcohol-based sterilization solutions), electroplating or surface finishing of implants, resin baths or others used in medical device molding processes, alkaline or solvent-based cleaning baths.
Aquaculture
Optimal thermal conditions
Immersion heaters are widely used in aquaculture to heat pond water and maintain optimal conditions for the growth, reproduction, and health of aquatic organisms.
They are used to regulate pond temperature, for incubation and reproduction, for rearing during cold periods, disease treatment, and the cultivation of algae and microorganisms. Their use improves the efficiency and productivity of farming systems, while helping to prevent losses due to temperature variations. Types of heated baths: saltwater, specific basins for thermal and chemical treatments.