Annealing Oven in Michigan

First things first. At Perceptive Industries, we offer a lot of different systems, from annealing ovens to a variety of heat recovery systems, to different thermal oxidizers. For those in the industry, you may not need information about what these things mean. But for the general public, this blog is intended to educate you a bit about one of these products we offer, so that you may be able to suggest them to those you know, or even find an application in your own business or home. This blog will focus on the annealing oven.

                Annealing itself is a process that is done by an oven. It applies in “metallurgy” and materials science. A given material is altered in the annealing process, where its properties such as surface, hardness, and ductility change. This can be useful for large industrial endeavors because it saves materials by turning them into something useful, when otherwise they may have simply gone to waste. The annealing oven will bring the material up over a “critical” heat, where the temperature will be maintained for a while, and then it will be gradually cooled in its now changed state.

                These ovens are large, typically, and they have a space in them big enough to accommodate for air circulation around the material in the appropriate or necessary way. Sometimes the parts are left inside the oven even as they are cooling (with the heat turned off or lowered, of course) so that the oven can also provide a controlled way for cooling to happen.

                This is really the basics of Annealing Ovens. You can find them, and ask any questions you may have, at Perceptive Industries.