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Thermal News November 2013

EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION

Durex Industries has great employees and enjoys showing its appreciation. At the end of summer, we took a Friday afternoon off from work to say thank you. We spent the afternoon enjoying old and making new friendships. Hosted at Durex, food, beverages and games rounded out the fun. The Durex Industries family wants to say thank you to all our customers. Without you, the party would not have been possible.

RECORD SIZE CAST ALUMINUM THERMAL SOLUTION

Some applications are a lot of fun and create a sense of pride within the engineering and manufacturing team. The largest cast aluminum heater ever manufactured by Durex Industries is an example of successfully pushing the limits to provide our customer with a winning thermal solution.
The Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) recently had an application for a robust thermal solution used for the amalgamation of large industrial parts. The OEM’s past experience, using formed tubular heaters pressed into mill groove aluminum plates, did not meet their temperature uniformity or robustness objectives.

Durex Industries accepted the challenge. The application requirements were solved by designing and manufacturing a large cast-in aluminum heater thermal solution. A cast-in aluminum heater is a precision-formed cable or tubular heater that is cast into an aluminum form. Precision thermal uniformity results from thermal analysis of the heater layout, mechanical dimensions, thermal conductivity of aluminum and other boundary conditions.
Durex’ solution was truly unique. Weighing over 1,500 pounds, this 75,000-watt cast-in aluminum heater is capable of operating at a high temperature and meets temperature uniformity requirements. The Durex Industries Engineering and Manufacturing Team pictured above was obviously proud of their accomplishment, and the OEM is delighted with the solution.

SPECIALTY MACHINED PARTS

A foundation of Durex Industries’ is our capability to supply custom thermal assemblies using in-house machining capabilities. The key to our customers’ business success is their ability to design specialized industrial manufacturing equipment. Often our OEMs need a fast prototype and production delivery on thermal solutions with customized mechanical parts. As a thermal solution supplier, Durex Industries machines hundreds of unique parts. Proponents of outsourcing commonly ask: “Why does Durex machine these parts in-house? Aren’t there plenty of machine shops around, or you could go to China and get the parts cheaper?” Our answer is basic: By machining specialty parts in-house, lead times are reduced, quality is improved, and overall costs reduced. Customers receive thermal solutions that meet their technical and business requirements quicker and at a lower procurement cost.

THERMAL SOLUTION COMPETENCY

Durex Industries is a unique thermal design and manufacturing company that specializes in custom thermal solutions used in challenging industrial applications. What makes Durex unique is our in-house capability to design and manufacture thermal solutions without being overly dependent on a large supplier base. At our Cary, Illinois facilities, Durex designs and manufactures thousands of custom cable, cast, immersion, silicone rubber, tubular heaters and temperature sensors for industrial equipment applications. Supplying thermal solutions to customers across many industries and applications requires a wide range of thermal, electromechanical, metallurgical, and other associated design and manufacturing capabilities. Durex Industries’ design and manufacturing expertise have made us a preferred supplier of industrial thermal solutions.

Contact Durex Industries for all your thermal loop product and system requirements.