Manufacturing & Industrial Plants consist of buildings and machinery, forming a complex where workers produce goods or operate machines to transform one product into another.
As the demand for cleaner energy grows and carbon emissions regulations tighten, many industrial facilities are turning to electric heaters. Unlike gas heaters, electric heaters don’t produce direct emissions, making them easier to align with government policies. Additionally, electric heaters offer precise temperature control, which is essential when maintaining specific temperatures is critical.
That said, industrial facilities face unique heating challenges that vary from one space to another, requiring tailored heating solutions for each specific application.
Read on to learn more about these application-specific heating solutions.
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Lower StartUp Costs
Electric heaters are less expensive and simple to install. They do not require ductwork or plumbed gas lines, so they can be installed without any disruption to your facility.
Cleaner, Safer Heating
Clean, Dry Heat with Zero Local Emissions. No burning materials, combustible gases, or noxious fumes means electric heat is the safest heating solution for your facility.
Better Efficiency
According to the EPA, electric heat is 100% efficient. Plain and Simple. And since each room is controlled independently, you only heat the spaces you are using.
Reduced Emissions
Because electric heaters do not rely on burning anything, no carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. When it comes to the process of converting a fuel source to heat energy, it doesn’t get any cleaner than electricity.
Health Benefits
Zero emissions mean cleaner air and health benefits for everyone. Decreasing the use of fossil fuels also improves the general health of ecosystems and the planet.
Lower Repair & Maintenance Costs
Electric heaters are virtually maintenance-free and rarely break down.
Always discuss with your HVAC specialist or installer to calculate a specific area’s heat loss requirements and to recommend the appropriate sized heater for your space.
Below is a list of common areas in manufacturing and industrial plants that can benefit from electric heaters, customized to address specific needs:
Assembly & Production Departments
Areas responsible for the efficient assembly, fabrication, and quality control of products, ensuring they meet specifications and are produced on time.
Even Heat Distribution:
Efficiently distributes heat across a wide area, ensuring that the entire assembly or production floor stays at a consistent temperature.
Improved Air Circulation:
These heaters often come with built-in fans that help circulate warm air, reducing cold spots and enhancing overall airflow, which is essential in larger spaces.
Energy Efficiency for Large Spaces:
Lowers operational costs compared to using multiple smaller heaters, as it can provide the necessary heat output to warm a large space without wasting energy.
Enhanced Air Circulation:
Helps keep air moving throughout large spaces, which can prevent heat buildup, improve ventilation, and create a more comfortable environment for workers.
Temperature Regulation:
Distributes heat more evenly in the space ensuring that the temperature remains consistent throughout the area.
Dust and Fume Control:
In production environments where dust, fumes, or other airborne particles are common, can help to move these contaminants away from work areas, improving air quality.
Space-Saving Design:
Can be mounted on walls or placed in corners, making them ideal for environments where floor space is limited or where equipment and workstations need to be kept clear.
Targeted Heating:
Provide focused, directional heat, allowing for precise temperature control in specific areas of the assembly or production floor, maintaining ideal conditions in localized zones.
Durability and Reliability:
Built to withstand the demands of industrial environments, offering long-lasting performance and reliability.
Engineering & Test Rooms
Areas that are dedicated spaces where design prototypes, product innovations, and production processes are tested, refined, and validated to ensure they meet performance and safety standards.
Safety in Hazardous Environments:
Designed to prevent sparks from igniting flammable gases, vapors, or dust in hazardous environments, ensuring safety of both workers &equipment in sensitive testing areas.
Compliance with Regulations:
Meets strict safety standards and regulations, making them a necessary choice for environments where combustible materials are present.
Reliable Performance in Critical Areas:
Offer reliable, safe heating while maintaining precise setpoints, without compromising the integrity of the testing process or risking contamination of sensitive equipment.
Space Efficiency:
Mounted overhead, freeing up valuable floor space in engineering or test rooms where room layout is often tight, allowing for better utilization of the floor for equipment and personnel.
Uniform Heat Distribution:
Provide even heat distribution across the room, which is useful in areas where maintaining a consistent temperature is essential for accurate testing.
Minimized Disruption:
Mounted high on the ceiling, these heaters avoid interfering with workflow or equipment. They provide heat without obstructing work areas or getting in the way of testing processes.
Space-Saving:
Kickspace heaters are designed to fit beneath counters or workbenches—making them ideal for engineering or test rooms where floor space is limited.
Quiet Operation:
They operate quietly, providing a comfortable environment for testing and engineering work, where noise can be a distraction or interfere with sensitive equipment.
Localized Heating:
Provide targeted, low-level heating in specific areas of the room, helping maintain a comfortable temperature around workstations or sensitive equipment.
Administration & Offices
Areas responsible for overseeing management, coordination, human resources, finance, and other administrative tasks that ensure efficient and organized plant operations.
Consistent Comfort:
Ensures a constant and reliable source of warmth in specific areas, providing consistent comfort for employees throughout the day.
Quick Heating:
Provide fast, efficient heat, making them perfect for quickly warming up smaller office spaces or individual work areas, ensuring a comfortable environment for employees.
Quiet Operation:
Designed for quiet operation, which is important in office settings where minimizing noise disruptions is essential for maintaining a productive and focused work environment.
Discreet and Aesthetic Design:
Installed high up on the wall near the ceiling, making them discreet and blending seamlessly with the office’s interior design.
Even Heat Distribution:
Provide gentle, consistent warmth by radiating heat downward, ensuring uniform temperature throughout the room without creating drafts or hot spots.
Space Efficiency:
They free up valuable floor space, making them perfect for smaller office areas or administrative spaces where maximizing usable space is important.
Sleek, Modern Appearance:
Designed to blend into the interior design of an office or administration area, offering a clean, stylish look that complements contemporary office aesthetics.
Space-Saving:
Installed directly on the wall, these heaters save valuable floor space, allowing for more room for desks, seating, and other office furnishings.
Quiet and Efficient Heating:
Architectural wall heaters operate quietly and efficiently, providing consistent warmth without the noise or bulk of larger unit heaters.
Shipping & Receiving
Areas involved the management of inbound materials and outbound finished products, ensuring efficient and accurate handling, inventory control, and timely delivery.
Targeted Heat:
Focus heat directly on specific areas, providing warmth where it’s most needed without wasting energy heating the entire space.
Quick and Efficient Heating:
Deliver instant heat by warming objects and people directly, which is especially useful in shipping and receiving areas where workers may frequently be moving in and out of cold outdoor conditions.
Minimal Air Disruption:
Don’t rely on air circulation, so they won’t stir up dust or debris.
Prevent Heat Loss:
Help create a thermal barrier, preventing cold air from entering the space and warm air from escaping.
Improved Worker Comfort:
By blocking drafts and maintaining a more stable temperature, these heaters enhance worker comfort.
Energy Efficiency:
Maintain more consistent temperature in the building, reducing the need for additional heating systems to compensate for the heat loss.
Rapid Heat Distribution:
Capable of quickly warming up large, open areas, ensuring a comfortable temperature for workers even in spaces with frequent door openings or high traffic.
Versatile Installation:
Mounted on the wall or ceiling, saving valuable floor space in busy shipping and receiving areas while still providing effective and uniform heat across the entire space.
Energy Efficiency:
Designed to heat large spaces efficiently, helping to maintain comfortable working conditions while minimizing operating costs in areas where heating demands fluctuate.
Material Storage & Warehouse Space
Areas designated for safely storing raw materials, components, and finished products, ensuring efficient inventory management and easy access for production needs.
Efficient Heating for Large Spaces:
Ideal for heating large, open warehouse areas by quickly distributing warm air throughout the space, even with high ceilings and large volumes of space.
Durability in Industrial Environments:
Built to withstand the demanding conditions, offering reliable performance in warehouse environments, while enduring dust, debris, and fluctuating temperatures.
Flexible and Adjustable:
They can be easily adjusted to heat specific zones or areas of the warehouse, providing tailored heating based on varying operational needs.
Space-Saving Design:
Compact and can be mounted on the wall or placed in corners, helping to save valuable floor space in busy warehouse environments.
Targeted Heating:
Offer precise, localized heating, making them ideal for warming specific zones within a warehouse or material storage areas.
Durable and Reliable:
Built to endure the tough conditions in warehouses, providing consistent and reliable heat in environments with heavy traffic.
Flexibility and Mobility:
Easily moved to different areas, allowing you to address specific heating needs in various zones, such as spots with sensitive materials.
Quick Setup and Use:
Quickly set up and put into operation, making them perfect for temporary or spot heating needs in large warehouse environments.
Powerful Heat Output:
Provide high heat output, which is essential for maintaining comfortable temperatures in expansive or poorly insulated warehouse spaces.
Mechanical Rooms
Areas that house essential equipment such as pumps, compressors, and HVAC systems that support operations by maintaining power, ventilation, and other critical functions.
Durability and Corrosion Resistance:
Highly resistant to rust and corrosion, making it ideal for mechanical rooms where exposure to moisture, chemicals, or harsh conditions is common.
Easy Maintenance and Cleaning:
Easy to clean and maintain, which is important in mechanical rooms that may accumulate dust, grease, or other residues.
Heat Resistance and Efficiency:
Operates safely and efficiently even in environments with fluctuating temperatures, ensuring consistent heating performance where equipment or machinery requires stable conditions.
Freeze Protection:
Provide consistent, gentle heat, which is ideal for preventing freezing of pipes, valves, or sensitive equipment in mechanical rooms during cold weather.
Efficient Heating in Concealed Spaces:
They’re designed for providing heat in concealed or hard-to-reach spaces, where other types of heaters might not be suitable or where space is limited.
Even and Discreet Heat Distribution:
Distribute heat evenly through the room via existing ventilation systems, ensuring a consistent temperature throughout the building.
Freeze Protection:
Crucial for preventing freezing in water pipes, pumps, and other critical components. They maintain a minimum temperature, ensuring that water systems are worry-free.
Reliable and Consistent Heat:
Provide a steady, low-level heat, keeping temperatures stable and preventing cold spots that could affect sensitive machinery or systems that require consistent operating conditions.
Energy Efficiency:
Designed to operate efficiently, providing the necessary warmth to prevent freezing without excessive energy consumption.
General Facility Spaces
Areas that include common areas such as the exterior building envelope, break rooms, restrooms, and maintenance spaces that support the daily operations and well-being of employees.
Maintain Indoor Air Quality:
Provide fresh, filtered air to replace the air that is exhausted by ventilation systems, helping maintain proper air quality in the facility.
Temperature and Humidity Control:
Regulates temperature and humidity levels by introducing conditioned outdoor air, which is critical for both safety and productivity.
Energy Efficiency:
Pre-conditions the incoming air before it enters the facility which reduces the workload on the heating or cooling systems.
Moisture Removal for Equipment Protection:
Used to eliminate excess moisture from equipment, machinery, or structural components, helping prevent rust, corrosion, and other moisture-related damage.
Drying Wet Surfaces or Materials:
In industrial plants, wet materials or surfaces (such as after cleaning or during construction) need to be dried quickly to maintain workflow and ensure product quality.
Preventing Mold and Mildew Growth:
Excess moisture in industrial plants and factories can lead to the growth of mold and mildew, which can be harmful to both workers and equipment.
Prevent Ice Dams and Snow Buildup:
Prevents the formation of ice dams and snow buildup on roofs and gutters, which can be a significant safety hazard.
Protect Infrastructure and Equipment:
Keeps gutters and downspouts free from ice, ensuring that water flows properly and prevents blockages that could cause costly repairs or system failures.
Improve Safety and Reduce Maintenance:
Reduces the need for manual snow removal, which can be dangerous and labor-intensive.