Epcon Industrial Systems

An air pollution control system designed and installed for a major tape coating line exemplifies how the best economic solution can also be the best environmental solution. As manufacturers in the adhesives sector increasingly champion their roles as environmental stewards, their focus extends beyond the monetary benefits of immediate operations such as a reduced downtime, fuel cost, and waste disposal fees. Instead, the currency of environmental , social, and governance (ESG) factors comes to the forefront, and the lasting environmental impacts that manufacturers’ decisions will have for generations become of equal or even greater importance. As more manufacturers across the adhesives and sealants industry embrace sustainable manufacturing processes, they are finding their decisions are also improving their financial bottom line. There does not need to be a trade-off, and green manufacturing is proving to be a win-win.  Tape Manufacturing Challenge A large manufacturer of ...

Heat treating is a critical thermal process for not only aluminum parts and products but also for the coating of aluminum sheets. Aluminum manufactured products of various sizes have been steadily replacing steel in industrial designs such as automobiles, airplanes, appliances and many more applications due to the light weight and flexibility of aluminum. Today, we are also seeing an increasing demand for affordable, lightweight, stamped metal parts, which is driving the development of specialty laminated products in coil-coating aluminum-sheet lines. Multiple Batch Aging Ovens with Guillotine Doors This article highlights two different heat-treating (annealing) systems designed for the aluminum industry. The first project features a batch-type aging oven designed for the manufacture of automotive parts. The second featured system is a curing oven with an integrated air-pollution-control system designed for coil coating laminated aluminum rolls. These systems illustrate the ch...

Whether installing new equipment or retrofitting an existing facility, make sure the industrial systems use the latest in controls technology and with the capacity to meet a range of variable operational demands while limiting operator oversight. A comprehensive control system, whether designing a new controls package or updating your existing system to a new controls scheme, is the most effective way to enhance any complex industrial manufacturing process — especially in more sensitive applications, such as coil coating or composite curing, where uniformity and precision are critical and when errors in operating controls are detrimental and extremely costly. The importance of controls is compounded when you have an integrated system where the process heating equipment is connected to an air pollution control system. These complex and expansive projects require sophisticated controls that regulate process speeds, temperature ranges, airflows, pressure, and VOC concentration levels, c...