LEWCO, Inc. Custom Designs and Manufactures Unique Composite Curing Oven.

(August 18, 2008, Sandusky, Ohio) - LEWCO, Inc. has designed and manufactured a gas-fired walk-in style batch oven to cure miscellaneous composite parts for a large provider of components for the aerospace, defense, oil, marine, commercial and recreational industries. This Walk-In Oven has a work chamber dimension of 48” wide x 168” deep x 108” high, with a maximum operating temperature of 500 degrees F.

The Composite Cure Oven is specially designed with composite curing features to provide precision temperature and pressure controls. Four ½” NPT through wall penetrations, and 6 jack type “J” thermocouple panels are included inside the oven and wired back to the Yokogawa strip chart recorder. The Honeywell process temperature controller can store up to four different profiles with up to 16 ramp/soak segments in each. A high-temperature limit controller with manual reset is also included. This Customized Oven is designed with a pair of “V” tracks in the floor for cart wheels and a pair of “T” tracks on the ceiling spaced at 36” centers with a capacity of 100 lbs/ft.

The composite curing oven is constructed of welded 16 gauge aluminized steel interiors and 18 gauge aluminized exteriors with 4” mineral wool insulation. This industrial oven features dual airflow with hot air being supplied from full length top return plenums, guaranteeing a temperature uniformity of +/- 10 degrees F. Temperature fluctuation, as measured by the 9-point test thermocouples, is guaranteed to be no more than 20 degrees F, measured after the oven reaches thermal equilibrium.

LEWCO, Inc. designs and manufactures composite cure ovens in our 165,000 square foot facility with state of the art metal manufacturing equipment and a complete engineering and skilled trade staff. In addition to the HEAT-PRO Industrial Oven and 55-gallon drum heating equipment, LEWCO also manufactures a complete line of pre-engineered conveyor equipment.

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