Heat Treatment Services

Induction Heating is a faster, safer and more efficient way of heating conductive materials compared to Resistance and Propane which are the traditional methods.

Heat Treatment Services

One of the key factors in welding materials together is Pre Heating of the material. Pre Heating is applied to raise the temperature of the parent material prior to welding. The Pre Heating assists in slowing the cooling rate during welding. Once the welding process has been completed, another key factor is the Post Weld Heat Treatment of the weld. This is used to maintain the integrity of the parent material and the weld.

What is Induction Heating?

Induction heating is a non contact method of electronically heating conductive materials. Utilising high frequency, alternating currents in coils creates a rapidly alternating magnetic field. This magnetic field crosses the work-piece creating a current flow (eddy currents) within the part; heat is then generated due to the resistance to eddy current flow within the material (I2R losses).

Induction Heating - A Change For The Better?

Induction Heating is a faster, safer and more efficient way of heating conductive materials compared to Resistance and Propane which are the traditional methods. Our heating elements remain cool to the touch while the material heats from within.

Thermal imaging clearly shows heat focused and spread evenly spread across work area, resulting in a better quality of weld.

Advantages over Resistance Heating

  • Time to temperature is up to 20 times faster
  • Welders are not exposed to hot connectors and ceramic pads
  • Welding can work more efficiently as up to 75% less heat is reflected back
  • Less risk of fire hazard from rock wool or connectors burning our or catching fire
  • Re-useable insulation leading to reduction in disposal costs
  • Less power consumption
  • Quicker stress cycle setup and no failures due to burned out connectors

Heat Treatment Services

Some of our more common applications are:

  • Pre and Post Weld Heat Treatment
  • Hydrogen Bake Out
  • Stress Relieving
  • Structural Steel
  • Flat Plates
  • Vessels
  • Fabrication
  • Coatings
  • Unfreezing Pipelines
  • Trace Heating

Flexibility

Due to the flexibility of our systems we can adapt our equipment to almost any heat treatment requirements.

Our induction heating coils are easily wrapped around various shapes and sizes of components.

Heat Treatment Areas

Our equipment has proven its technology in various projects in the following industries:

  • Oil Pipelines
  • Gas Pipelines
  • Offshore Oil & Gas Pipelines
  • New Pipelines
  • Power Plants
  • Petrochemical
  • Subsea
  • Shipbuilding
  • Paper making
  • General Engineering and Fabrication

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Our Customers

A selection of our customers, providing dedicated worldwide Induction Heating sales and service.

Shell - Proheat 35 Customer
Total - Proheat 35 Customer
Serimax - Proheat 35 Customer
Petrofac - Proheat 35 Customer

World Class Service

World leaders in induction heating systems, with world class sales and support experts.