Manufacturing & industrial
Plate heat exchangers for manufacturing and industrial process
Process heating and cooling engineered for continuous, heavy-duty operation — with maintenance planned around production.
Overview
Keeping production temperatures steady
Manufacturing plants use plate heat exchangers to heat and cool process fluids, cool machinery and recover heat that would otherwise be wasted. Because they sit in the middle of production, an unplanned failure can stop a line.
The duties vary widely — from clean water to oils, chemicals and fouling process streams — so each unit needs the right plate and gasket materials, and a service interval that matches its fouling rate.
Applications
Common heat-transfer applications
01
Process heating and cooling
Holding process fluids at the right temperature.
02
Machine and hydraulic cooling
Protecting presses, moulding machines and hydraulic systems.
03
Heat recovery
Reusing heat from one process stream in another.
04
Compressed air and utilities
Compressor and utility cooling circuits.
05
Chemical process duties
Where materials suit the process media.
Challenges
Operating challenges we plan for
- Continuous operation and limited shutdown windows
- Varied media, including oils and chemicals
- Fouling from process streams
- Units of different makes across one site
Services
Relevant services
- Maintenance programs — one program covering every unit on site
- Workshop servicing — full service and rebuild
- Cleaning & regasketing — fouling removal and regasketing
- On-site servicing — inspection and leak detection
Products & parts
Suitable equipment and parts
Maintenance
Maintenance considerations
- List every unit on site with its nameplate details and duty
- Match service intervals to each unit’s fouling rate
- Hold gasket sets for critical units
- Review units when production rates or products change
Get in touch
Tell us about your application
Share the duty, the media and the operating environment, and we’ll recommend a practical option.