INDUSTRIAL ELECTRIC HEATING ELEMENTS
In May 2004, SIM S.r.l. acquired and incorporated a company specialized in the production of finished electrical heating elements and in the marketing of wires and metal straps for electrical heating elements.
We established a specialized workshop for the production of different electrical heating elements, with or without t-weld of the terminal element (cold part), according to specific customer’s requirements, and we equipped a lab for the quality control of the incoming wire and the outcoming finished product. The main controls we make are:
- ohm/meter, through a specific measurement bridge equipped with a digital micro-ohmmeter;
- diameter and ovality, through thousandth-micrometer with comparator;
- visual control of surface-appearance and of the winding;
- possibility of comparison of the producer’s chemical analysis with our external certified lab.
MAIN ALLOYS WE DEALT
The main alloys we dealt with are:
NICRO = Nichel / Chromium
NICRO 80 = Ni.80% – Cr.20% alloy. It is the best and most valuable alloy of its class, useful for heating elements working at high temperature (1200°C).
NICRO 70 = Ni.70% – Cr.30% alloy. (Max. T. 1250°C)
NICRO 60 = Ni.60% – Cr.15% alloy. Excellent for heating elements working at 1100°C temperature.
NICRO 40 = Ni.37% – Cr.20% – Si.2% alloy. Useful for the production of driers where the temperature of use does not exceed 1,050°C.
NICRO 30 = Ni.28% – Cr.20% – Si.2% alloy. Useful for the production of driers where the temperature of use does not exceed 950°C.
FECRAL = Iron / Chromium / Aluminium
splitted in
FECRAL 153 = ferromagnetic alloy for a working temperature of 1450°C. Enriched with Yttrium, Zirconium and Nickel.
FECRAL 145 = ferromagnetic alloy for a working temperature of 1350°C. Its best use is in heat-treating furnaces.
FECRAL 139 = alloy useful for heating elements in industrial furnaces needing high surface loading. Working T. 1300°C.
FECRAL 137 = projected as heating element for furnaces of ceramic, for the production of armored heating elements and heating elements put in quartz tubes. Working T. 1280°C.
FECRAL 127 = alloy for low-temperature heating elements (1050°C) working in air or inside quartz/alumina tubes.
Warehouse for heating elements alloys:
Electric heating elements production and mechanical working department:
Some heating elements of our production
Assembled on insulating fiber
Assembled on ceramic supports (tubes and supporting resistors plates)
Tubular heating elements
Exposed-wire-wound resistors
Semi-embedded resistors on iron-removed ceramic support
Armored and Finned Resistors