Heavy Steel Shell Furnaces

Due to our superior design and technological expertise, Inductotherm® Heavy Steel Shell Furnaces are the most durable furnaces on the market today. Heavy Steel Shell furnaces are designed to be stronger than frame-based designs and are also significantly quieter, thanks to our solid steel shell’s sound-deadening characteristics. For installations requiring even quieter performance, sound-absorbent insulation can be added inside the shell. Large access panels on every Heavy Steel Shell Furnace are constructed from heavy steel to protect the coil during furnace operation.
Heavy Steel Shell Furnaces can be used with our back-slagging feature, push-out lining systems, weigh frames, pit guards and more. They can be retrofitted with a variety of fume collectors and hoods. This includes our latest Vortex™ extraction hood that can help you comply with the strictest air pollution requirements, such as MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) standards. Inductotherm® Heavy Steel Shell Furnaces are ideal for melting all metals and silicon. Heavy Steel Shell Furnaces are also available with an optional wide-bodied design which have a significantly larger bath diameter and furnace opening and can be ideal depending on your application. They offer additional benefits such as lower installation costs, lower scrap costs and better access to slag.

Product Details

Features

STANDARD FEATURES	OPTIONAL FEATURES	ADDITIONAL WIDE-BODIED DESIGN FEATURES
Large Access Panels	Load Cells	Larger Bath Diameter
Steel Shell Protection	Back-Tilting, Nose-Tilting and Pre-Tilting Systems	Enhanced Zinc Evaporation
Insulated Covers	Integrated Fume Ring	Lower Stance
Ground Leak Detection	Fume Collectors and Hoods	Shallow Pit Depth
Magnetic Shunts	Safety Pit Guards
EMF Containment	Weigh Frames
	Push-Out Lining System
	Mini-Heel™ Furnace Coil

Tech Specs

CAPACITIES	FACTORY TESTED
350 Kilograms to 100 Metric Tons [770 Pounds to 110 Short Tons]	Critical Components

Safety Options

Safety Options and Retrofits are critical for guarding your equipment against possible failures. To improve each unit’s overall efficiency and safety, Inductotherm provides options that can be retrofitted as needed to provide you with the most advanced equipment without replacing entire units, which include:

Close capture furnace fume covers assist our customers with MACT compliance. We offer a full range of covers that can be retrofitted to almost all large and small Inductotherm coreless induction furnaces, new and existing. These covers are designed to effectively collect smoke, dust and airborne pollutants during all phases of furnace operation. The Vortex™ extraction hood is a high velocity hood that offers many benefits including less escaped fumes and better access.
Lining Push-Out Systems for furnaces greatly reduce the time and labor for refractory lining changes by using a large movable plug to push out the entire lining in just minutes for easy disposal. It reduces exposure of foundry personnel to refractory dust which improves working conditions along with profitability and productivity.
Back slagging permits the furnace to tilt at a 33-degree angle toward the rear. Tilting the furnace provides sufficient space above the deck for a portable hopper, which will make it easy for the slag to be pulled through the rear spout into the hopper when an operator is manually slagging.
Back tilting is offered where approximately 12 degree back tilt angle is achieved for slag removal, utilizing a lower cost tilt frame with extended cylinder construction. Nose tilting shifts the furnace rotation point forward, increasing pouring accuracy where small pours or a controlled pour stream is required.