What is a Tubular Heating Element?

Tubular heating elements are electrical heating elements used to heat liquids, gases, air, and other test materials. Tubular heaters consist of nickel chrome resistance wire centered in a metal sheath and insulated with compacted magnesium oxide. Once annealed tubular heating elements can be formed into various shapes and sizes. Since it’s so versatile, the tubular heater is a widely used source of electric heat for industrial and commercial applications.

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Custom Tubular Heaters

Immersion and radiant tube heaters are at the core of what we do. We manufacture double-ended tubular heaters that serve in a wide range of heating solutions for liquids, gases, air, and other test materials. Tubular heater elements are extremely flexible and, thus, can be formed into a variety of shapes and sizes. The versatility of immersion and radiant tube heaters makes them an ideal solution for numerous applications in cylinders, dies, drums, holding tanks, injection machines, plastic extruders, and much more. Explore the features and capabilities of our custom tube heaters.

Tubular Heater Features

Tubular Heaters to fit your requirements,
including different sizes, materials, and wattage.

Quality Assured

We manufacture each tube heater in-house, so we can guarantee the quality of what lies underneath the metal sheath.

Flexible

We can manufacture tubular heater elements to long lengths and almost any shape.

Multipurpose

As one of the leading tubular heater manufacturers in the country, our team possesses the capability to create a custom immersion or radiant tube heater for your project. Whether you require direct immersion heating of liquids and solids or radiant heating of air and gases, our tubular heaters can accommodate the demands of your specific application.

Customizable Specifications for Tubular Heaters

Heatmax’s tube heaters are designed to fit your requirements, including various sizes, materials, and wattages.

Voltage

Our custom immersion and radiant tube heaters can be supplied with voltages up to 600V.

Wattage and watt densities

Watt density can be customized to work with the space you have and the heat-up time you need – within engineering constraints.

Dimensions

Tubular heaters can be made to your length and or custom-formed shape requirements.

Element sheath material

Tubular heater elements are available in standard materials including Copper, Incoloy, Stainless Steel, and Titanium alloys. We can also manufacture tubular heater element sheaths with special materials such as Hastelloy, Incoloy 600, Monel, Alloy 20.

Sheath diameter

Tube heater sheaths are available in 0.315 and 0.430/0.440-inch diameters.

Terminals

Plain pin, flag, spade, and screw terminals, as well as bulkhead fittings and wire lead ends, are available for each immersion and radiant tube heater that we customize to your specific needs.

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Get Expert Assistance on a Custom Tube Heater

Ask a Heatmax sales engineer about your tubular heater project. With nearly 70 years of experience, we are among the best tubular heater manufacturers in the country, and our in-house experts can customize a quality tube heater according to your unique specifications.

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Almost 70 Years

Heatmax History

When it comes to business management theory we’ve proudly gone against the grain, we’ve kept ourselves nimble and self-reliant in an industry full of race-to-the-bottom consolidation and outsourcing.

We take pride in the craftmanship that goes into our products and are committed to living up to the quality mark “made in the USA”. We treat our staff as well as we treat our customers. Proudly employ hard-working people of all backgrounds and support our local community. It’s just right.

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