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LEWCO recently unleashed its engineering prowess, manufacturing a revolutionary custom vertical conveyor oven system for a Tier One automotive supplier. Picture this: an engineering masterpiece at play in a fully automatic system that cures adhesive on large composite panels at 300°C (575°F). Each composite panel rides in a 6’x8′ tray which LEWCO and the customer …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a continuous process composite curing oven to a government contractor. The application is rotational curing of large composite mandrels in a continuous process. A critical design parameter was having the conveyor start and stop for indexing, while still maintaining rotation. While inside the oven, the mandrels will travel through two independently …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently designed and manufactured a custom fuel-fired conveyor oven for a company in the automotive industry. The oven is used for curing an adhesive to bond dissimilar materials at 500°F. The oven features a single, direct fired, natural gas heater box with a capacity of 1,000,000 BTU’s/HR. The large conveyor oven is equipped …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently manufactured a large conveyor oven for an industrial coating company. The oven is rated for a maximum 500°F and is used to dry coatings on various sizes of glass bottles. The bottles are used throughout several different industries. The oven features a top mounted heater-box with 108 kW heat input. Integral plenums …
At LEWCO, delivering high-quality products along with providing excellent customer service are top priorities. Customers often take notice of this and continue coming back to LEWCO for their process heating needs. One specific customer, a spring manufacturer specializing in overhead door supply, recently received a shipment of their seventh and eighth industrial conveyor ovens from …
LEWCO, Inc. was recently chosen to design and develop a conveyor oven for a manufacturer of iron cookware. The oven, which is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 500°F, is used to cure a special coating at 475°F. The oven features a single, direct-fired, natural gas heater-box with a capacity of 700,000 BTU’s/HR. The …
LEWCO, Inc. is equipped to handle a wide range of rebuild, retrofit, or modification work for all industrial ovens manufactured by LEWCO, Inc. Our oven team can perform the work on site, or at LEWCO’s plant in Sandusky, OH, if equipment is shipped back to us. Whether you need oven replacement parts or a reconditioning …
LEWCO, Inc. recently manufactured two custom fuel-fired conveyor ovens for an equipment integrator. The ovens are used for drying various parts and have a maximum operating temperature of 250°F. With the numerous lanes throughout the workspace, this is one of the more unique conveyor ovens LEWCO has completed. The ovens feature a single, direct-fired, natural …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a large conveyor oven for a manufacturer of foundry supplies. The oven, which is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 500°F, is used to dry ceramic fiber products. The finished products are used for a variety of applications. The oven features two direct-fired, natural gas heater-boxes with a capacity of …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a conveyor oven to a well-known manufacturer of plumbing systems. The oven is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 500°F. and will be used to dry cast iron cores at 400°F. The oven features a single, direct-fired, natural gas heater box with a capacity of 700,000 BTU’s/Hr. The oven employs …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently manufactured a fuel-fired conveyor oven for an industrial filter manufacturer. The oven, which is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 500°F, is used to cure resin applied to the filters. The finished product is used for a variety of applications. The oven features a single, direct-fired, natural gas heater-box with a …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a custom curing cell to a custom part manufacturer. The cell includes two dual strand chain conveyor ovens as well as material handling equipment that includes chain driven line rollers (CDLR) and pop up transfers. A single lane oven with accumulation pre-heats the parts and keeps them warm until the operator …
Did you know LEWCO is the only U.S. based Industrial Oven manufacturer that also manufactures a standard line of conveyor products? With both standard product lines, LEWCO has a technical advantage on process heating applications that require integrated material handling. Our Industrial oven and conveyor engineers work closely together to select the oven and conveyor …
LEWCO, Inc. takes great pride in consistently delivering high-quality products. Customers often take notice of this and continue coming back to LEWCO for their process heating needs. Evidence of this is the amount of repeat business LEWCO receives. One specific customer, a tier-one automotive supplier, recently received a shipment of their tenth custom annealing oven …
Many of our customers understand the importance of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and compliance with their various codes. Some customers even know the difference between the four oven classifications as defined by NFPA 86 Standards for Ovens and Furnaces. However, very few understand that compliance with NFPA 86 does not end with the …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently manufactured a large conveyor oven for an industrial roofing manufacturer. The oven, which is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 350°F, is used to dry the water off a coated scrim at 200°F. The finished product is used for various commercial roofing applications. The oven features a single, direct-fired, natural gas …
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When it comes to integrating material handling with process heating applications, LEWCO is second to none. Recently, LEWCO used its expertise to design and manufacture two continuous process heating cells equipped with ovens, conveyors, and cooling zones. The 800°F ovens are used to cure polyethylene foam contained in aluminum molds. LEWCO engineers developed each oven …
LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a custom continuous process oven to a manufacturer of welded wire mesh fabrics. The oven is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 1000°F. and will be used to cure PVC coated, welded wire mesh between 900°F – 950°F. PVC coated wire mesh can be used for a variety of things …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered its ninth continuous process annealing oven to a tier-one automotive supplier. The oven is used to anneal plastic automotive lenses at a maximum temperature of 220°F. The process relieves stresses created during welding to avoid cracking or clouding of the lens during assembly. While inside the oven the parts will travel through …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered two continuous conveyor ovens to a manufacturer of specialty hose clamps. The ovens, model CVB03ED, will be used to heat treat various hose clamps up to 350°F. Both ovens were designed to meet the requirements of NFPA 86, Class A ovens due to residual oil and other lubricants being present on …
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When a leading Tier 2 Automotive Manufacturer was in need of a large oven to cure polyurethane foam, they turned to the experts at LEWCO. The result was a custom, high-efficiency, field assembled, continuous process oven. The customer’s process consists of filling aluminum molds with polyurethane foam. The molds are fixed on steel carriers which …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered (2) custom conveyor ovens to a large multi-national manufacturer of electrical insulators. The ovens will be used to cure a proprietary coating on various parts up to 248°F. A solvent in the coating required both ovens be designed to meet the requirements of NFPA 86, Class A ovens. Curing part coatings …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently completed two 800°F. electrically heated conveyor ovens, which will be used to cure various component parts of laboratory equipment. The parts come in many different shapes and sizes, so it was critical to ensure they remained stationary as they passed through the oven. To solve this, LEWCO engineers used a balanced weave …
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Shortly after delivering a compact conveyor oven to a company in the electric motor industry, LEWCO was contacted by a Tier 1 Automotive Supplier in need of a similar sized conveyor oven. After speaking with the customer and understanding their needs, LEWCO engineers designed a custom conveyor oven, model CVB05ED. The oven will be used …
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The Engineers at LEWCO, Inc. were recently challenged to design and develop a custom oven for a leading global materials company. The result was a 650°F. electric conveyor oven with a custom threading device that will be used to dry a special type of impregnated fibers. The threading device was included to pull the fibers …
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LEWCO, Inc. was recently challenged to design two conveyor ovens that could not only handle a high production rate of a soil testing laboratory, but also accommodate their limited floor space. The result: two custom electrically heated, vertical conveyor ovens. The ovens will be used to dry moisture from the soil samples prior to testing. …
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LEWCO, Inc. recently was awarded a contract to design, fabricate and install a custom field assembled conveyor oven for drying a proprietary preservation coating. Due to the overall size of the oven along with the requirement to install on an existing elevated platform this project will be a field assembly design. This oven is required …
LEWCO, Inc. recently manufactured a custom conveyor oven for a repeat customer in the electric motor manufacturing industry. The customer had very tight space constraints and challenged LEWCO engineers to come up with an oven small enough to fit that requirement, while also achieving the required time and temperature for the parts. The result was …
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LEWCO recently delivered a 350°F electric conveyor oven for drying various alloy steel parts after a washing process. Completely drying the parts before they went to the next step in the manufacturing process was critical. This created a challenge for the customer in the past because the parts are inconsistent in shape and wet on …
SANDUSKY, OH – LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a 350⁰F electric conveyor oven for baking an undisclosed solvent-based product on slave trays. Due to the solvency of the product, the Oven had to be NFPA 86, Class A rated. Slave trays will be fed through the 33’ long oven via flat wire mesh belt conveyor. At …
SANDUSKY, OH – LEWCO, Inc. recently delivered a custom conveyor oven used to cure a proprietary coating on jet turbine blades. The 350°F electric oven features a flat wire mesh belt conveyor, a control system that communicates temperature and conveyor speed data to a remote central control PLC, and a unique LEL (lower explosive limit) monitoring …
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LEWCO recently delivered two electrically heated conveyor ovens to an automation systems integrator. The first conveyor oven (not pictured) will be used to pre-heat plastic molds between 92°F – 140°F. The molds are conveyed on a pallet by two lanes of dual strand chain conveyor. Accumulating chain was provided to stage the pallets prior to …
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SANDUSKY, OH. – LEWCO recently delivered a fuel-fired conveyor oven to a leading spring manufacturer in the overhead door industry. The 650°F conveyor oven will be used to stress relieve torsion springs. After speaking with the customer and understanding their needs, LEWCO Application Engineers developed a solution that was capable of being fully integrated into …
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SANDUSKY, OH – LEWCO, Inc. recently shipped a custom conveyor oven to a domestic equipment integrator. The oven will be used to cure coated electrodes as part of a large processing line. Insulated vestibules with adjustable silhouette openings are used on each end of the heated zone to meet the temperature uniformity requirement of +/-10°F. …
SANDUSKY, OH – LEWCO, Inc. recently completed construction of a custom industrial conveyor oven for a manufacturer of marine engine heat exchangers. The oven will be used to cure liquid seals on the end of the tube bundles. The curing cycle is a 2-step process requiring (2) separate dwell times in the oven, but both …
LEWCO designed and manufactured a direct fired natural gas continuous process conveyor oven for a leading manufacturer of mattress foam. The oven operates close to 500°F and is used to cure a continuous web of foam coming off an adjacent mill. The foam can vary in width and thickness at a maximum of 90” wide …
LEWCO, Inc. manufactured six custom annealing ovens for a large tier-one automotive supplier located in northern Ohio. The ovens are used for annealing plastic taillight assemblies after a welding process. The process relieves stresses created during welding to facilitate easier assembly in the vehicle without cracking or clouding of the lens. The annealing process requires …
LEWCO, Inc., a leading industrial oven manufacturer, recently delivered a fuel-fired, conveyor oven to a nationally known drum reconditioning facility. The continuous process, industrial oven is used to dry water based paint on standard 55 gallon drums at a rate of 4 drums per minute. The conveyor oven is designed to NFPA 86, Class A …
When a magnesium fire destroyed a furnace at a Midwest primary metal producer, LEWCO, Inc., Sandusky, OH responded to deliver a large 1000˚F roller hearth furnace in (7) months. The turnkey project included design, manufacture, installation and commissioning. Designed primarily for preheating coils, the five-zone conveyor oven has a capacity of 180,000 lbs. when fully …
The application for this equipment is curing polyurethane parts contained in steel molds at approximately 260°F for 45-50 minutes. Parts are placed on 24.5″ x 12.5″ steel trays as they go through each oven. Each tray can hold up to (8) molds and yield a total weight of 200 lbs. per tray. This is an …
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This composites customer required a custom application for heating 55-gallon drums. LEWCO engineers worked vigorously to develop a system that best met the customer’s needs. The result was an integrated heating / conveyor system comprised of a steam heated tunnel featuring two lanes of dual strand free flow chain conveyor. Drums are individually placed on …
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