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Heat Trace has extended their guarantee period from 12 months to "24 months from date of despatch, or 18 months from date of installation, which ever is sooner" This will be applicable for all products supplied after January 2012.
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| Bredbury Re-occupation Gains Pace: |  |
| Heat Trace Ltd has added a second manufacturing facility to supplement the Helsby headquarters. The second location is at Bredbury, Stockport, some 50km from the Helsby plant. The Bredbury factory had previously been our main manufacturing facility from 1987 to 2005, when we moved to Helsby, but ownership had been retained to accommodate future growth. The re-occupation of Bredbury now provides a second manufacturing base offering bespoke and unique process capabilities, a greatly enhanced Research & Development test lab facility, as well as much needed additional office space:- | |
| Manufacturing: | |
| 1) Metal Extrusion: | |
| The major new capital item is the continuous metal extrusion line, a multi-million dollar investment. The line can be operated in numerous ways:- - To make profiles such as metallic foils or wires in infinite lengths. These may typically produce ‘Longline’ heating conductors, or power conductors - To over jacket cables with a continuous waterproof metal sheath. This provides an alternative to the metal braid in cases where, for example, a high mechanical strength is desirable. - To blend different metals to produce alloys having specific properties. We are able to metal jacket virtually our entire range of cables in infinite lengths. This is ideal for applications such as embedded snow melting cables or ‘Downhole’ oil well applications where additional ruggedness is needed. | |
| 2) Constant Power Heaters: | |
| After years of slow growth, sales of Constant Power heating cables are again on the increase! This is primarily due to the high temperature withstand (425ºC) and power capability of AHT cut-to-length cables. This patented product remains unique and without competition, and is being recognised as a very convenient option to MI cable, which is difficult to design, terminate, and install. Manufacturing processes include glass and mica tape wrapping, contact metal spraying and metal over jacketing. Prior to the new continuous extrusion line, cable lengths were limited to 60-70m. Now lengths may be infinite (although circuit lengths are not!). | |
| 3) Silicone Rubber Extrusion: | |
| Heat Trace Ltd has, for more than 30 years had silicone rubber extrusion facilities, to manufacture products such as series ‘Longline’ and constant power parallel cables. Following years of somewhat spasmodic sales, demand has increased for these types of products, as evidenced by recent new applications such as sub-sea heating. Heat Trace is therefore investing in a new ‘state of the art’ elastomer extrusion line at Bredbury. | |
| Research & Development Facility: | |
| In the past R & D have had to utilise production extrusion lines whenever trials were needed. This could sometimes be at great expense to production! Now, whilst customer services will remain at Helsby, R & D is moving into Bredbury, where it will be provided with its own twin screw compounding line, elastomer and fluoropolymer sheathing lines and a film extrusion facility. DSC / TGA test equipment, hot press facilities and numerous pipe test rigs, including a skin effect test rig are being installed. | |
| 1) Personnel: | |
| Heat Trace Ltd Bredbury will by the end of 2011 house approximately 20+ staff involved in assembly operations, metal extrusion, constant power cable processes, and extrusion. The R & D team will work alongside a Sales team and Management. It should be recognised that Heat Trace Ltd Bredbury will provide products and services unique worldwide in the heat tracing market. | |
| This is a further step in the differentiation of Heat Trace Ltd from its competitors. | |
HEAT TRACE WORLD CONFERENCE 2011 - 'Becoming the Best!'
Heat Trace Ltd hosted its biennial World Conference in the delightful Portmeirion Village, Wales, during April 2011.
It was deemed a great success and there were speakers from both Heat Trace Ltd as well as the Affiliate Companies.
The topics covered included the Evolution of Trace Heating, the latest Technical and Product developments as well as Sales and Marketing Strategies.
Please find below a selection of photos that were taken during the conference:
Over the past 5 years Temar has significantly increased sales and human resources: today they are recognized . . . . . .
Heat Trace Argentina S.A. have changed some of their contact details. Their new contact information is:
| Heat Trace Asia Ltd. (HTAL) have moved to a new office located on a special High Tech Business Park in Shanghai. The new office details are: Heat Trace Asia Ltd. B-410, I&E Park, Caohejing Hi-Tech Park, 189 Xinjunjuan Rd, Minhang, Shanghai, China 201114 Tel：86-21-3463-7260 Fax：86-21-3463-7263 The new offices are much larger to accommodate the new engineering facility being established there. John Fern, Heat Trace’s Contracts Manager for 30 years, has re-located to Shanghai to assist in the training for design and installation. He has introduced Heat Trace’s Evolution 6 design software to the engineers. Heat Trace Asia Ltd., run by Myung Soo Seo, a Korean of 25 years experience with Heat Trace, has now almost completed the China Nuclear Daya Bay Phase 2 trace heating project. The success of this multi-million dollar contract has led to the winning of a further 6 nuclear installations to be carried out by HTAL over the next two years. |  | |
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| This follows on from success in providing over 200km of our self-regulating heating cables into the oilfields and refineries in Xinjiang province over the last 3 years. Heat Trace Asia is a continuing success story …… moving onwards and upwards! | ||
