Also known as a pusher furnace or roller heart furnace is a continuous industrial furnace widely used in processes such as heat treatment, sintering, and annealing. Its design allows the workpiece to move along the slide or roller track in the furnace, achieving continuous or intermittent batch production. What are its advantages compared to ordinary tube furnaces?

Commonly used slide rail furnaces (click on the image to view product details)

1. Efficient continuous production capacity
High degree of automation: Sliding rail furnaces are usually equipped with automated feeding and discharging systems, which can achieve continuous entry and exit of workpieces and are suitable for large-scale production.
High production efficiency: Due to the movement of workpieces in the furnace, multiple workpieces can undergo heat treatment simultaneously, improving production efficiency.

2. Excellent temperature uniformity
Accurate temperature control: The slide rail furnace is equipped with multiple heating zones, and the temperature of each zone can be individually controlled to ensure temperature uniformity throughout the entire heat treatment process.
Uniform heat distribution: The workpiece moves in the furnace and is uniformly heated through various heating zones, reducing temperature gradients and stresses.

3. Energy conservation and environmental protection
Low energy consumption: The design of the sliding rail furnace optimizes the utilization of heat energy and reduces energy consumption. Modern slide rail furnaces typically use efficient insulation materials and heat recovery systems to further save energy.
Emission control: Many slide rail furnaces are equipped with exhaust gas treatment devices, reducing the emission of harmful gases and meeting environmental requirements.

4. Flexibility and versatility
Widely applicable: The slide rail furnace is suitable for heat treatment of various materials and processes, such as steel, aluminum alloys, ceramics, glass, etc.
Convenient process adjustment: By adjusting the temperature of the heating zone and the speed of the slide rail, the heat treatment process parameters can be flexibly adjusted to meet different production needs.

5. Low maintenance costs
Simple structure: The structure of the slide rail furnace is relatively simple and easy to maintain. There are fewer moving parts inside the furnace, which reduces mechanical wear and failure rates.
Easy to clean: The slide or roller design makes the furnace easy to clean, reducing production downtime.

6. Highly automated
Intelligent control system: Modern slide rail furnaces are equipped with advanced control systems, which can automatically adjust and monitor parameters such as temperature, time, atmosphere, etc., and are easy to operate.
Data recording and traceability: The control system can record and store the heat treatment data of each batch of workpieces, facilitating quality control and traceability.

7. Improving the working environment
Closed design: Sliding rail furnaces are usually designed in a closed manner, reducing the impact of heat and exhaust gas on the working environment, and improving the safety and comfort of the workshop.

8. Production flexibility
Multi stage control: Multiple temperature control zones can be set according to the requirements of different products to achieve processing of different processes.
Quick Line Change: Suitable for production lines that require frequent product replacement or process adjustment, reducing line change time and improving production flexibility.

Slide tube furnace (click on image to view product details)

Therefore, with its advantages of high efficiency, energy saving, flexibility, and low maintenance cost, slide rail furnaces have become commonly used heat treatment equipment in many industrial fields.Click to learn more tube furnace! Or click on online customer service to learn more about product information!