Solar Manufacturing designs and manufactures new and replacement vacuum heat treating furnace hot zones with a focus on energy efficiency and durability. As a team of specialists with many collective years of experience in vacuum furnace and hot zone design, we are committed to our objectives of providing vacuum furnaces with the lowest cost of ownership achieved through state-of-the-art materials, high performance operation and robust design.
Solar Manufacturing also offers replacement hot zones for a variety of OEM furnaces.
Hot zones are available in either graphite or metallic construction.
Graphite Hot Zone Features:
All-Metal Shielded Hot Zone Features:
*Other shielding materials are available depending on the application and temperature requirements
Key to our furnaces is the critical hot zone design and the various materials selected to accomplish the specs you need. Our prime objectives are to provide our customers with a hot zone that fully meets all furnace specifications, is highly energy efficient with low watt density factors and yet will provide extended life. Solar Manufacturing hot zones operating under these difficult conditions have performed well for many years and beyond before requiring replacement or major repair.
Solar also relies heavily on the expertise of our affiliate, Solar Atmospheres, a commercial heat treater with five locations operating over 70 vacuum furnaces, to provide feedback on the design and manufacture of our products. This allows us to refine and test new ideas regularly.