Product Announcements: Flexible Heaters

The Challenge

A global designer of custom-engineered heating and deicing systems and controls for the rail and mass transit industry sought an improved solution to provide comfort heat in the cabins of subway and passenger train cars, replacing traditional strip and baseboard heaters. The new heating panel concept included two silicone laminate heaters bonded to a metal pan... (read more)

Silicone Rubber is the most versatile rubber based dielectric used to produce flexible surface heaters.

Fiberglass reinforced Silicone Rubber Heaters are thin and flexible, durable and have a long shelf life.

Etched foil designs afford more heater size, shape opportunities and enhance the longevity potential. (read more)

For applications where a stock heater will not suffice, Benchmark Thermal specializes in the design of custom heating elements in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. We can accommodate contours, holes, and notches.

Special fasteners, adhesive backing, built-in thermostats, and thermocouples
are available.

UL Component Recognition for the U.S. and Cana... (read more)

Flexible heaters can supply heat to a wide variety of applications. They can be custom designed to accommodate contours, holes, and geometric shapes, and will deliver uniform temperature. These heaters are ideal for large and small contact areas requiring controlled and even heating. (read more)

Self-Regulating Heating Cable

Application: Snow and Ice Melting
KSR self-regulating heating cables are an integral part of Thermon's SnoTrace™ snow and ice melting systems. Designed and approved specifically for direct burial, KSR cable withstands the abuse encountered during concrete placement. (read more)

The RT FlexiPanel is a self-contained, high performance flexible heating panel designed specifically for use on metallic tanks or vessels. Designed to provide heat outputs at 2 watts per square inch (3,100 watts per square meter) or less, the RT FlexiPanel distributes heat evenly over the entire panel surface.1 (read more)

Thermon provides heat tracing solutions for the industrial and commercial markets. Heat Tracing is the external application of heat to pipes, tanks and instrumentation. (read more)

Thermal Circuits Inc. has engineered and produced in volume etched foil element heaters and heater assemblies to improve automobile performance, safety and passenger comfort. (read more)

Chromalox Introduces New Line of Polyimide (Kapton®) Flexible Heaters: Thin profile design offers superior heat transfer; ideal for medical, analytical, transportation, semiconductor, electronics and aerospace equipment applications. (read more)

A perfect solution to fit your specific heating needs! An etched foil design element is the circuitry for Kapton®/Polyimide heaters. Heaters made with this DuPont® thin film are transparent, lightweight, flexible, electrically strong, and bondable to a variety metal surfaces. (read more)