About Infrared Heating Technologies
Infrared Heating Technologies, LLC (IHT) designs and builds industrial ovens, furnaces and radiant heaters for manufacturers that need heat applied quickly, evenly and repeatably. The company operates a manufacturing plant of about 30,000 square feet in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where it handles process consultation, CAD design, fabrication, control-panel building, PLC programming and factory run-off testing in-house.
What IHT makes
IHT does not push a single heater type. Its engineers choose among short-wave tungsten-halogen infrared, medium-wave quartz emitters, gas catalytic and direct-fired gas infrared, electric and gas convection, silicon carbide elements, rod-over-bed heaters and sheathed tubular elements, and they often pair infrared with recirculated convection for fast heat-up with better uniformity.
That range shows up in the equipment. IHT builds conveyor ovens and belt furnaces for curing and annealing, tunnel ovens and infrared booster stages for coating lines, batch ovens and flattening furnaces, stacked hot-stamping furnaces for press hardening, and rapid-infrared billet furnaces for aluminum forging. Composite and thermoforming ovens, portable die pre-heaters and custom vacuum infrared furnaces for research round out the portfolio. The company also supplies T3 quartz lamps and other replacement heating elements.
IHT’s rapid-infrared work has a research pedigree. It built the furnaces for an aluminum forging heating process developed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a project recognized with a 2004 R&D 100 Award.
Why engineers specify IHT
- Process first. Because IHT works across more than ten heating methods, the recommendation follows the material, part geometry and line speed rather than a preferred product.
- Proof before purchase. Customers can send sample parts for trial heating to confirm the heat source before a system is designed.
- Single-source build. Mechanical and electrical design, fabrication, controls and run-off testing happen under one roof, which shortens the loop between engineering and the shop floor.
- Safety-minded design. IHT states that its tunnel ovens are built to NFPA 86 and OSHA standards, and its controls include over-temperature limits, SCR power control and multi-zone temperature control.
Local support from Vaughn Associates
Vaughn Associates represents Infrared Heating Technologies, and projects anywhere in our region start with our Huntsville headquarters. IHT’s East Tennessee plant is close to many Southeast manufacturers, including automotive suppliers, aerospace composite fabricators, metal formers and coating lines.
A good oven quote depends on good process data. We help you pull together part materials and dimensions, target temperatures and cycle times, throughput, conveyor or batch preferences and available utilities, then coordinate trials and quotes with IHT’s engineers and follow the project through delivery. Systems are typically purchased directly from IHT.
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