Engineering Insights Blog

Manufacturers use a combination of physical and chemical processes to turn a fragile metal film into a precision heating element encased in silicone rubber.

All employees within the Smiths Group family of companies are guided by a set of principles outlined in Smiths’ Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) policy statement.

At TUTCO-Farnam, the majority of our custom-designed heaters use mica board machined to meet the customer’s specifications.

Cool Touch™ heaters is ideal for rapidly heating inline air, and the internal open coils provide efficient heat transfer through direct resistance coil contact with the airflow.

In the design of a custom open coil heating element, several factors need to be considered when selecting the optimum coil(s) for an application.

For a typical convection air heating application, the air temperature and the volumetric air flow entering the heating element, and the power produced by the element are known or can be specified.

In the world of heaters, surface heaters aren’t really very sexy – they often consist of little more than a few pieces of mica and some wire.