Our CapabilitIes

Tempco’s design and manufacturing capabilities allow us to produce the highest quality Electric Heating Elements, Temperature Sensors and Temperature Control Products.

Manufacturing: Process and Machinery

Plant Tour – Inside Look Video

In this video get a rare sneak peek inside Tempco. Take a look at some of our manufacturing capabilities and processes that produce the quality products that our customers have come to expect. From our humble beginnings 50 years ago in a 1,500 sq.ft facility to our current headquarters today with two manufacturing plants totaling over 170,000 sq.ft., we are very proud of how far we have come.

Cast-In Band Heater Video

Tempco manufactures many Cast-In heaters and thermal components with liquid cooling including band heaters, thermal platens, motor housings, feed pipes, ring heaters, barrel heaters, circulation heaters, platen die heaters and complex geometric thermal components. Our Cast-In thermal components are manufactured with Tempco’s tubular heating elements and aluminum, brass or bronze cast materials.

Air Cooled Shroud Systems Video

We have multiple laser cutters, press brakes, rolling mills and CNC Turret Presses used in the custom manufacturing of our shrouds systems as seen in this video. Used most commonly in the plastics industry, our air-cooled Cool-to-the-Touch and Multiversal shroud systems are ideal for optimized barrel heating and cooling.

Custom Fittings CNC Robotic Automation Video

Tempco can custom manufacture virtually any fitting with our Turning Centers with Auto Bar Feeders, CNC Milling Machines and fully automated CNC Turning Center with Robotic Arm loader/unloader. Materials include Aluminum, Brass, Alloy Steel, Stainless Steel and more.

Custom Fittings CNC & Bar Loader Video

Tempco can custom manufacture virtually any fitting with our 13 Turning Centers with Auto Bar Feeders, 12 vertical CNC Milling Machines and more. Shown here is a CNC Turning Center – 12-Station Twin Turret, Twin Spindle with Live Tooling Capabilities and Y-axis Turning. This machine is combined with an automatic bar feeder.

Tubular Heaters Video

We custom manufacture our Tubular Heating Elements in-house. They are sold as stand-alone heaters or used in a large variety of other custom-manufactured products including Screw Plug Heaters, Immersion Heaters, Duct Heaters, Cast-in Heaters and more.

Manufacturing: Process and Machinery

CNC Lathes with Automatic Bar Feeders

Need a custom fitting for your application? No problem! Tempco streamlines the design and manufacturing process by making our own fittings with our 12 CNC Lathes.

CNC Machine Shop

When a tolerance or geometric shape cannot be achieved as cast, we utilize our full service state-of-the-art machine shop. Our CNC machine tools include our lathes, 12 CNC Mills and Boring Mills that can perform all of the precision machining a design may require with repeatable accuracy. We also utilize our machine shop to build and maintain permanent mold tooling for our Casting processes.

Roll Reducing Mill and Exo-Gas Annealing Furnace

Elements are fed into the roll reducing mill to compact the MgO insulating powder. After rolling, the elements are annealed in a conveyor belt furnace.

Waterjet Cutting Machine

This machine is used across many of our product lines to cut sheet metal for custom panel designs, band heaters, plates for non-pressure flange heaters and other custom heater designs.

Sheet Metal Fabrication

Along with the waterjet, additional Sheet Metal Fabrication machines Tempco utilizes in our manufacturing processes are the Fiber Laser, CNC Turret Presses, and CNC Press Brakes.

Filling Machines

Our carefully researched manufacturing methods include tubular heating element filling machines that allow us to methodically fill the heating elements with the MgO insulating powder.

Pattern Shop

Our In-House Pattern Shop builds and maintains the wood or plastic patterns required to produce castings with no bake sand molds.

Foundry Melting Capabilities

Our electric reverb and induction furnaces minimize gas inclusion into the molten metal, thereby producing a denser, higher-quality casting. Explore our Guide to Alloys.

No-Bake Sand Molds

This process for low-volume Aluminum, Bronze and Brass Cast-Ins is ideal for large, irregular shapes and thermal platens.

Tilt-Pour Gravity Feed

When medium to high volume Aluminum cast-ins are produced, the Tilt-Pour Gravity Feed is used. It will accommodate simple shape castings and moderately complex shaped castings, producing good dimensional accuracy and surface finish.

In-House Welding Professionals

We use Manual Welding, Silver Brazing, TIG Welding and Automated TIG Welding in our manufacturing processes.

cULus Certified Panel Shop

We offer general purpose or custom engineered power control panels built in our certified shop, backed by over 45 years of experience in the process heating industry. We can meet all of your requirements from the simplest single zone panel to the most complex thermal loop system. Our Certifications include the following cULus Listings:

General-use Industrial Applications

Safe Area: ANSI/UL 508A File # E307875 (NITW, NITW7)

Intrinsically Safe Circuit Extensions

ANSI/UL 698A File # E364504 (NRBX, NRBX7)

Hazardous Locations

Purged and Pressurized, Explosion Proof UL 1203 File # E364503 (NNNY, NNY7) NFPA 496

Additional Manufacturing Capabilities:

Ceramic Molding
CNC Bending
Coil Winding
Induction Brazing
Kilns
Plasma Cutters
Swaging Machines
Vulcanizing

ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES

Hydrostatic Pressure Testing

To ensure the quality of our Process heaters, we can perform integrity testing of welds on our flange and screw plug heaters.

Heater Life Cycle and Materials Testing Lab

Let our engineering team assist you in determining what will best suit your application by utilizing our life cycle and materials testing lab.

Engineering Capabilities

Our engineers utilize the latest 2D and 3D software to design Tempco products including:

Solidworks
AutoCAD
MasterCAM
Casting Filling and Solidification Simulation
3D Scanning
3D Printing

Agency
Approvals

Many Tempco products offer Agency Approvals. On our website, look for the icons indicating the approvals we offer below. If you don’t see the Agency Approval that meets your requirements, please Contact Tempco.

Instrument Calibration

Every April Tempco’s instruments are calibrated using standards traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST) to maintain our ISO9001:2015 certification. We use multiple Independent 3rd Parties with accreditations by A2LA or ANAB, and ISO/IEC 17015:2017-compliance. Over 500 instruments in the following categories that are used in our manufacturing process are calibrated including, but not limited to:

Balance scales
Block Gages
Depth Micrometers

Optical Comparator
Outside Digital Micrometers

Tempco Customer Services

Pronto Service

Need a Non-Stock and/or Custom Manufactured Product…YESTERDAY?

Prontos Service is your answer to a crisis or emergency situation. This service drastically reduces normal delivery times to meet the customer’s needs on non-stock and custom manufactured products.

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Terminator Program

Custom Terminated Cartridge Heater from Stock?

YES! Tempco’s Terminator Program offers 1 to 3 day delivery on custom terminated Hi-Density Cartridge heaters.