Birk Manufacturing, Inc. products

Birk Manufacturing produces flexible heating elements which are thin, reliable, and easily conformable to any shape. Owing to their flexible properties, these heaters can be used to heat applications with complex geometries and applications that require heaters with lightweight construction, low thermal mass, and minimal thickness. We can provide etched foil flexible heaters as well as wire-wound flexible heating elements. Of these, the etched foil flexible heating elements can be made extremely thin, which makes them suited for tight spaces. Their thinness and flexibility allow them to be wrapped around complex shapes and fit into tight corners. Wire-wound heaters can be easily placed in long patterns for applications that require large heaters.

Birk Manufacturing is a leading thermal partner throughout the heat processing industry. Birk’s cartridge heaters are known for their extremely high surface loading that allows large power to be delivered where space is extremely limited. A cartridge heater is a tube-shaped heating element that can be inserted into drilled holes. Cartridge heaters provide localized and precise heating. These cartridge heaters are manufactured with a resistance coil wound around a ceramic core. This core is then surrounded by dielectric and encased in a metal sheath. Powered heat transfer through the coil to the sheath causes the sheath to heat up. This heat transfer then heats the inside metal part that requires an elevated temperature.