About this industry
Past the furnaces, the finishing line and the plant-services bays carry their own load — plating, rinse, and cleaning tanks held at temperature, overhead cranes running a heavy repeating duty, hook loads that have to be watched, and metal-powder areas where the heat has to be rated for combustible dust. Prater Technical Partners supplies that layer end to end: Heatrex and Indeeco over-the-side immersion heaters on the finishing tanks, Reuland motors on the bridge, gantry, and jib cranes, WIKA-ST load pins watching the crane hook, and Accutherm explosion-proof heaters in the Class II metal-powder areas. Prater Technical works with you to spec each one from the tank, the duty cycle, and the area classification.
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