Therser UK Blog

Tuesday 19th March 2019 was a special day for us. Apart from being officially the last day of winter, it was also the day we celebrated 10 years in business. A lot changes in 10 years and it’s good to take stock and think about how far we’ve come and what our team have achieved in this time.

We are delighted to welcome Andrew Wildblood to our team as our latest Commissioning Engineer. Andrew is a highly skilled professional with 40 years’ experience in the industry and is well known in the sector for his skill and expertise! It’s a pleasure to have him on board and we look forward to working with him to further strengthen our commissioning team.

Following a busy year of growth, Therser are now the UK’s largest specialist manufacturer of industrial kilns and furnaces! Changes in the industry and investment in new manufacturing facilities have enabled us to diversify and increase the range of projects we can take on.

Any industrial equipment that uses high levels of energy must be a contributor to carbon dioxide emissions and is, therefore, part of the problem when it comes to climate change – or so conventional wisdom would dictate.

The hellish conditions of an industrial kiln may at first seem the least likely environment for manufacturing something as intricate and delicate as a smartphone. However, the average smartphone contains around 200 individual ceramic parts, all of which require firing in an industrial furnace. Transition-metal oxide based ceramics fulfil an important role in smartphones and can be found in a number of components. It’s true to say that contemporary smartphones would be radically different without ceramic parts!

Refractories are a very significant cost element on the construction of furnaces and do require occasional maintenance and even downtime for repair, which is never a welcome prospect for any operation manager or business owner. We at Therser fully understand how critical a component your refractory linings are to the operation of your business us and how urgently it must be brought back into service with as short an outage duration as possible.

Due to the continued growth of our business we are currently looking to increase our growing organization by additions to our existing skilled work force.

After carrying out extensive R&D and investing in a range of specialised manufacturing equipment, we are glad to announce that we can now produce our own ceramic fibre linings in house. For our customers this saves time and money, as we no longer have to deal with third parties when equipping our kilns and furnaces with ceramic fibre linings. Furthermore, our advanced ceramic linings are now some of the best on the market, enhancing the performance of our kilns and delivering even better value for money.

As a thermal services and engineering business, we are often asked about the various standards and codes there are in the field of welding. Given that we provide furnaces and kilns for sensitive sectors like the aerospace industry, sanitaryware manufacturers and solar energy businesses – among others – welding quality is a question that crops up again and again. This is why we are proud to have been certified under the demanding BS.EN.ISO 9606-1 standards for welding quality.

We are delighted to announce that our new in-house test rig is operational for training and testing purposes. The test rig was developed to serve a number of purposes, which are briefly explained in this article. First and foremost, the rig allows us to test new advances in burner technology and control systems before offering them to our customers – speeding up product development and making it easier for us to innovate.