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Kilnman
Building the BEST kilns and dryers available anywhere


Guide to Products Designed and Built by The Kilnman

Our principal products are exceptionally fine kilns, furnaces and dryers, we also design and manufacture
a variety of auxiliary items for heat processing equipment (see Upgrades).
Finally, we provide engineering and consulting services as well.

Some of our products will be outlined on this page as a convenience to you to help see what we have to offer.


Quick List (Click on the word below to take you quickly to that section):
  1. Kilns
  2. Dryers
  3. Computer Controls
  4. Afterburners
  5. Rebuilds
  6. Relocation
  7. Engineering Assistance

KILNS
The Kilnman builds kilns using the following forms of energy
  • Natural Gas
  • LPG Gas
  • Diesel Oil
  • Electricity

The kilns are of many structures including:
  • Fixed Base (No Car) Periodic Kilns
  • Door Type Shuttle Kilns with swing, lift and sliding doors
  • Bell Type Periodic Kilns
  • Elevator Type Periodic Kilns
  • Special Designed Electric and Fuel Kilns for Special Applications (Call us about these kilns)
  • Car type tunnel Kilns
  • Belt Type Annealing and decorating Lehrs
  • Roller Hearth Continuous Kilns
  • Pusher Slab and Sled Type Continuous Kilns
  • and more ...

Examples of some of the products fired
Wall Tile
Floor Tile
Architectural Tile
Terra Cotta
Earthenware
High Alumina
Refractories
Bathroom Ware
Coffee Mugs
Hard Ferrites
Face Brick
Steatite
Cordierite
Dinnerware
Sanitary Ware
Porcelain Insulators
Porcelain Ware
Lamp Bases
Beer Steins
High Alumina Parts
Sculptures

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DRYERS
The Kilnman builds DRYERs using the following sources of heat

  • Indirect heat with burners using Natural Gas, LPG Gas, and Diesel Oil
  • Direct heat from Electricity
  • Waste heat from tunnel kilns and periodic kilns

We offer the following types of Dyers
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  • Periodic cart style dryers
  • Periodic Test Dryers
  • Continuous car type dryers
  • Continuous belt dryers
  • Other continuous dryers

Dryers can be made for mold release, leather hard drying, and bone dry finish drying.
They can be made for manual operation or fully automatic operation complete with automatic handling equipment.
Some of the Products that can be dried are:
  • hard ferrites
  • clay based ceramics
  • plaster molds
  • soft extrusion (high water content)
  • hard extrusions (low water content)
  • dry pressed materials (low water content)
  • fragile ceramics

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Upgrades
The Kilnman provides engineering and construction for additions and upgrades to your existing equipment
The following are some of the items we can provide:

  • afterburners
  • Upgraded control systems, computer based
  • Computer based control systems for top opening electric kilns
  • Redesign and reburnering of continuous or tunnel kilns
  • General upgrade of kin design
  • Upgrade of exiting dryers to a more modern, more efficient design
  • Design and implementation of kiln and dryer improvements

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SERVICES
The Kilnman can provide a number of services, Some of these services are specific for kilns or dryers, some are more general, Ceramic Engineering services.

only a few are listed here.

  1. Improvements in kiln or dryer cycle times
  2. Improvements in kiln or dryer uniformity
  3. Reduction of Drying or Firing losses
  4. How to grow from a small potter to a thriving business
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mailto:sales@kilnman.com
Ceramic Services, Inc.
Phone 215-245-4040 Fax 215-638-1812
1060 Park Ave. Bensalem, PA 19020
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