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Finishing Ovens

Custom Industrial Finishing Ovens for
Coating, Curing & Drying

Blasdel Enterprises designs and manufactures custom industrial finishing ovens for paint, powder coating, curing, drying, flash-off, and preheating applications. Every oven is engineered around your specific process, including coating requirements, part size and geometry, production rate, cure temperature, conveyor speed, and available floor space.

Our finishing ovens are available with electric infrared, gas catalytic infrared, or high-velocity recirculated air heating. Systems can be designed as batch, indexing, or continuous conveyor ovens and can include integrated controls, conveyors, loading equipment, cooling tunnels, vestibules, and automated material handling.

Oven configurations are customized based on your process, including vertical, horizontal, circular and casegoods-style arrangements with heaters positioned on top and sides.

Blasdel builds Class A ovens with control panels rated to meet UL 508A specifications.

Whether you need a standalone finishing oven or a complete coating system, Blasdel develops the equipment around your production requirements.

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Custom Finishing Oven Applications

Blasdel finishing ovens can be engineered for a wide range of coating and drying processes, including:

  • Liquid paint curing
  • Powder coating cure
  • Primer curing
  • Varnish and protective coating cure
  • Paint and coating drying
  • Solvent flash-off
  • Moisture dry-off before coating
  • Preheating parts before painting or powder coating

Our systems can process a variety of substrates, including steel, aluminum, plastic, wood, glass, rubber, and other materials.

Finishing Oven Heating Technologies

Electric Infrared Finishing Ovens

Electric infrared technology transfers heat directly to the product and coating, providing rapid and controlled heating rather than without relying solely on heated air.

Benefits include:

  • Rapid heat-up and curing
  • Independently controlled heating zones
  • Precise temperature control
  • Compact oven designs
  • Clean operation
  • Efficient energy transfer
  • Adjustable heat intensity for different products and coatings

Blasdel offers a variety of infrared heating technologies, including ceramic panel heaters, quartz panel heaters, Coil-O-Rod Incoloy emitters, and ceramic generators operating in the medium-wave infrared spectrum. Gas catalytic emitters are also available for long-wave infrared applications.

Gas Catalytic Infrared Finishing Ovens

Gas catalytic ovens use flameless infrared energy and convection air for selected finishing and paint-curing applications.

Features include:

  • Rapid temperature response
  • Reduced processing and cure times
  • Independently controlled heating zones
  • Effective heating of complex part geometries
  • Long-wave infrared energy combined with convection

High-Velocity Air Finishing Ovens

High-velocity, high-volume air ovens recirculate heated air throughout the oven to provide controlled and uniform heating. Blasdel ovens use PID temperature control, including systems integrated with PLC controls.

High-Velocity air systems are particularly well suited for:

  • Liquid paint curing
  • Solvent flash-off
  • Moisture dry-off
  • Lower-temperature finishing processes
  • Complex shaped parts
  • Applications requiring heated air to reach recessed surfaces

Conveyorized Finishing Ovens

Conveyorized ovens are designed for continuous or indexed production lines. Each oven is engineered to provide the required processing time and temperature based on the coating process, product configuration, and production rate.
Material handling options include:

  • Overhead conveyors
  • Belt conveyors
  • Chain conveyors
  • Powered roller conveyors
  • Indexing systems
  • Automated part loaders
  • Pick-and-place equipment
  • Custom product carriers
  • Integrated loading equipment

Blasdel has designed and manufactured integrated infrared conveyor ovens for both powder and liquid coating processes. Recipe controls can also be incorporated into Blasdel oven systems, including PLC-based controls with stored production recipes.

Process Testing Before Final Design

When process testing is required, Blasdel can test customer parts and coatings before finalizing the oven design. Testing helps establish the process parameters required to achieve the desired results.
Testing may evaluate:

  • Heating technology
  • Cure temperature
  • Time at temperature
  • Heat-zone configuration
  • Infrared emitter selection
  • Conveyor speed
  • Product spacing and orientation
  • Airflow requirements
  • Expected production rate

Completed ovens are also tested before shipment. Zone testing may be performed when facility power availability requires the equipment to be tested in stages.

Finishing Oven Design Considerations

Blasdel evaluates the complete production process when designing a finishing oven. Typical considerations include:

  • Part dimensions and weight
  • Part material
  • Coating type and manufacturer
  • Required cure schedule
  • Production volume and rate
  • Conveyor requirements
  • Available utilities
  • Available floor space
  • Loading and unloading requirements
  • Exhaust and ventilation requirements
  • Control and automation requirements

This process allows Blasdel to develop an oven that is matched to the application rather than relying on a standard, off-the-shelf configuration.

Why Choose Blasdel for Your Finishing Oven?

  • More than 40 years of industrial oven and controls experience
  • Electric infrared, gas catalytic and high-volume-air heating technologies
  • Integrated conveyors and material handling systems
  • Control panels rated to meet UL 508A specifications
  • Class A oven designs
  • Installation, startup and training options
  • Equipment manufactured in the United States

Frequently Asked Questions About Finishing Ovens

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What is a finishing oven?

A finishing oven is an industrial oven used to cure, dry or heat liquid coatings such as liquid paints, lacquers, varnishes, stains, primers, inks and other liquid finishes. Finishing ovens use infrared heat or convection heat to achieve the required cure profile while maintaining consistent product quality.

What types of finishing ovens do Blasdel manufacture?

Blasdel designs custom finishing ovens for coating and finishing applications, including:

  • Liquid paint curing - solvent-based and water-based
  • Flash-off ovens
  • Primer curing
  • Lacquers
  • Stains
  • Varnishes
  • Inks

Every oven is engineered specifically for the customer's process rather than built from standard configurations.

Does Blasdel build custom finishing ovens?

Yes. Every Blasdel finishing oven is custom engineered around the product, coating process, production rate, required time and temperature, available floor space, utilities and material-handling requirements. Each system is designed to optimize heating performance, production efficiency and long-term reliability.

What heating methods are available?

Blasdel offers several heating technologies:

  • Combination infrared and high-velocity recirculated-air systems
  • Electric infrared
  • Gas catalytic infrared
  • High-velocity recirculated air

The appropriate technology depends on the product, coating chemistry, production rate, required cure schedule and available utilities.

What products can be processed in a finishing oven?

Blasdel finishing ovens can process a wide range of products, including:

  • Automotive components
  • Wheels
  • Aluminum extrusions
  • Appliance components
  • Architectural products
  • Aerospace parts
  • Construction equipment
  • Consumer goods
  • Custom-manufactured components
  • Industrial equipment
  • Steel fabrications

What is the difference between infrared and convection finishing ovens?

Infrared ovens transfer heat directly into the product and coating, allowing faster heat-up and shorter curing times. Electric infrared is high in energy efficiency. It heats the part four times faster than convection.

Convection ovens transfer heat to the air and the air heats the part. This is less heat transfer and less energy efficient compared to infrared technology.

Can a finishing oven be integrated into an existing production line?

Yes. Blasdel frequently designs ovens that integrate with existing production lines including integrating conveyors, robotics and material handling equipment. Custom layouts allow new equipment to fit within existing manufacturing facilities while minimizing disruption.

What industries use Blasdel finishing ovens?

Blasdel finishing ovens serve many industries, including:

  • Automotive
  • Aerospace
  • Industrial manufacturing
  • Agriculture
  • Heavy equipment
  • Appliance manufacturing
  • Building products
  • Metal fabrication
  • Powder coating job shops
  • General industrial finishing

Why choose Blasdel for a finishing oven?

Blasdel has more than 40 years of experience designing custom industrial ovens. Every system is engineered around the customer’s manufacturing process rather than adapted from a standard design.

Customers choose Blasdel for:

  • Custom-engineered solutions
  • Multiple heating technologies
  • In-house process testing
  • Integrated controls and automation
  • Complete finishing systems
  • U.S. manufacturing
  • Long equipment service life
  • Ongoing technical support

Can Blasdel design a complete finishing system?

Yes. Blasdel can provide complete finishing systems that include:

  • Material handling
  • Conveyors
  • Loading stations
  • Dry-off ovens
  • Flash-off tunnels
  • Finishing ovens
  • Cooling tunnels
  • PLC controls
  • Integrated automation

Does Blasdel perform product testing?

Yes. Blasdel has an in-house testing facility where customer parts and coatings can be evaluated before equipment is manufactured. Testing helps determine:

  • Proper heating technology
  • Infrared emitter selection
  • Required cure time
  • Temperature profile
  • Conveyor speed
  • Production capacity

This testing reduces risk and helps ensure the finished system meets production requirements.

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Whether you need a standalone curing oven, replacement for an existing finishing oven, or a complete conveyorized coating system, Blasdel Enterprises can develop a solution around your process and production goals.


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