Industrial Clean Room Ovens

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jpwdesign

Clean room ovens create a sterile environment for hygienic and sterile process applications in manufacturing. The pharmaceutical and medical industries take the lead in the need and request for these types of ovens. Clean room ovens, also known as dry-heat sterilizing ovens, are used to cure, dry, sterilize and depryrogenate.

Recently, JPW customized a clean room oven for a pharmaceutical pill manufacturer. They requested a dry-heat sterilizer for their specific project.

“Clean room ovens have different classifications,” states Mike Jameson with JPW Industrial Ovens and Furnaces. “The type we typically produce are Class 100 clean room environment ovens for processes where eliminating particle contamination is required. We also see more requests for these types of ovens than we have in the past.”

Clean Room Oven Standard Features

JPW offers various size, cycle, and temperature option requirements to meet your clean room industrial oven needs. Our clean room ovens are available in multiple configurations, including lab, bench, walk-in, cabinet, and continuous process. JPW’s clean room ovens can be customized for your specific needs and will meet or exceed Class 100 air standards. Standard features of our clean room ovens include:

Construction: corrosion-resistant stainless-steel interior and exterior, fully sealed interior and exterior, adjustable shelves
Filtration: two heat-resistant HEPA filters
Temperature: up to 500°F with uniform heating
Door: fully-sealed adjustable door hinge with lever-actuated door latch and silicone gasket
Controls: user-friendly, control panel with large LED display or PLC
Air Flow Patterns: vertical or horizontal

Customized Clean Room Ovens vs. Standard Clean Room Ovens

While JPW can customize your clean room oven, we also offer a standard line of stock ovens that may meet your industrial needs.

“The turnaround time for a standard oven we have in stock with modified customization is about 4-6 months, while a completely custom-built clean room oven can take six months or more,” adds Jameson. “Prices for a small clean room oven range from $125-150,000.”

If you need a clean room industrial oven, don’t hesitate to contact JPW. Let us help you determine what solution is right for you. Whether you need a model from our stock line or a customized oven, JPW can meet your needs.

What Are Continuous Process (Conveyor) Ovens?

Posted on April 7, 2022 by jpwdesign

Continuous Process Ovens (or Conveyor Ovens) are batch ovens that repetitively operate with a specific product traveling through them. It can easily be compared to an automated assembly line. The conveyor belt moving through the oven has a job to do and keeps on doing that job until the product is complete. This type of oven can produce a high volume, uniform product due to a consistent, regulated temperature as it passes through each chamber or zone.

Mike Jameson with JPW Industrial Ovens & Furnaces indicates that almost every continuous process oven that goes out our door needs some customization and is project-based driven.

Since customization tends to be the standard, when one is needed, JPW recommends planning ahead.

“In the conveyor oven world, these ovens are project, product and process-specific,” Jameson adds. “These ovens are used to do one particular job whether it is curing or drying, for example, and that is it. A typical life cycle of a product used in a continuous process oven is about five years, some ten. So when considering the purchase, I always ask what the desired outcome of the oven is, what material will be treated, and how will the oven fit in the project’s manufacturing process.”

After these initial questions are answered, Jameson says the oven design, temperature requirements, and type of belt material can be easily identified.

Types of Applications and Ovens

These types of ovens can be used for various applications, including tempering, annealing, curing, pre-heating, drying, heat-shrinking, and heat-forming. They are also used in the aerospace, defense, fiber optics, wood and metal finishing, plastics, rubber, industrial processing, pharmaceutical, electronics, printing, and automotive industries.

Types of continuous ovens include:

Flat conveyor belt
Chain conveyor
Ferris wheel
Carousel
Overhead trolley
Serpentine
Chain-on-edge
Spindle
Slat type
Strip cure
Print plate
Pusher ovens
Dog beams
Wash-draw furnaces
Multi-tier

With over 100 years of combined experience serving industrial markets with innovative oven products, design solutions, and competitive services, when planning the purchase of a continuous process or conveyor oven, let JPW help. We are skilled at finding solutions and crafting each oven to suit your unique needs while keeping you competitive in the marketplace.

Gerry Retires

Posted on August 16, 2021 by jpwdesign

Gerald “Gerry” Mitcheltree recently retired from JPW Industrial Ovens and Furnaces after working with the company for 14 years as a fabrication supervisor. On his last day, Friday, August 6^th, his fellow co-workers and supervisors organized a much-deserved send-off.

When asked what he will miss most about JPW, he joked, “I will miss arguing with Briana and Chelsea the most.” Gerry quickly added that JPW has a good atmosphere and great people.

A lifelong Williamsport resident, Gerry and his wife raised four children in the area and have been blessed with eleven grandchildren.

While he has no specific retirement plans at the moment and will take it day by day, Gerry is looking forward to spending time with his family and just simply enjoying his second act.

An Uptick in Industrial Oven Requests for Electric Vehicles

Posted on June 28, 2021 by jpwdesign

JPW has been designing and manufacturing ovens and furnaces for start-up companies in the electric vehicle industry for several years. Though lately, the requests have been more frequent and more specific. Mike Jameson with JPW Ovens Furnaces believes he knows the reason why this is the case.

Jameson says, “Mainstream automakers from around the globe are noticing that electric vehicles are the future. While the smaller start-ups have been researching, testing, and creating electric vehicles for years, the well-known automakers want to make sure their hats are tossed in the ring as they notice the demand from potential customers steadily increasing.”

The two types of ovens that are being requested most often are continuous process and batch. Jameson sees oven and furnace needs geared toward battery technology and research and electric motor processing testing. Requests vary from small-batch ovens to large continuous process ovens that expand to over 40 feet long.

Jameson adds, “Mainstream brands moving into the field are looking to have their ovens in a position to conveyorize so they can do more volume to supply products for assembly lines. They may begin using a batch oven but work their way up to a continuous process oven.”

When electric motor processing testing is needed, Jameson finds the ovens are being used to finish curing the product; when electric vehicle companies are looking requesting ovens for battery technology, ovens are typically used to test a battery’s stability in various temperatures without failing.

Jameson said he envisions the first true wave of electric vehicles coming to market soon. They will continue to improve as more people switch from the typical gas-operated vehicle to electric. He adds, “It is a fun time in history right now, and JPW is excited to be a part of it.”

Industrial Oven Manufacturers: One of the Unsung Heroes During the Pandemic

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jpwdesign

JPW Industrial Ovens and Furnaces has always been available for customers when they need us most. This is especially true during a global pandemic.

Since last March, we have received many customer letters, emails, and phone calls requesting ovens to be used to create, develop, and produce essential products; some of these essential products include PPE and for the conception and testing of vaccines.

Due to these urgent COVID-19 needs, there has been an increase in demand for several of our ovens including our cabinet drying, high-temperature walk-in (with insulated floor), and inert gas walk-in ovens.

“We have been working around the clock to get these much-needed ovens produced,” states Mike Jameson with JPW. “Due to the time-sensitive nature of these requests, we adjusted schedules to create and deliver a quality product promptly, on time, every time.”

Jameson feels honored and privileged to have been and continue to be contacted by companies who require JPW’s ovens and furnaces to work through this national crisis.

He adds, “With vaccines becoming more and more readily available, there is finally a light at the end of the long, dark tunnel we have been walking through since last spring. JPW is grateful to be a part of the solution in the small way we can getting our lives back to some normalcy.”

JPW Industrial Ovens and Furnaces, based near Williamsport, Pa., makes lab, bench, walk-in, cabinet, conveyor, and custom-made industrial ovens for various industries, including aerospace, automotive, composites, heat treating, finishing, general manufacturing, and research. With more than 100 years of combined experience, JPW is skilled at crafting solutions to suit customers’ unique industrial oven needs. Our commitment to quality is a given. It is our unmatched customer service that sets us apart.

For more information, visit jpwdesign.com.

Composite Curing Ovens

Posted on August 28, 2020 by jpwdesign

Composite curing ovens anneal, cure, dry and harden composite and synthetic materials. Primarily driven by the aerospace and aircraft markets, these ovens are commonly used to process and manufacture parts from landing gear to fuselage to wing sections. Most composite curing applications are unique.

With multiple design options available, composite curing ovens can be customized to meet your specific needs. These ovens are also available in various sizes, operating temperatures, and specifications.

Our highly experienced and knowledgeable team at JPW Ovens and Furnaces has manufactured and designed many composite curing ovens in various industries for nearly twenty years.

Contact JPW Ovens and Furnaces to discuss our industrial furnace options. Let us help guide you to make the best decision and find out if one of our modified standard units is right. Our commitment to quality is a given. It is our unmatched customer service that sets us apart.

Meet Briana (Brie) Conway

Posted on June 11, 2020 by jpwdesign

Where did you grow up? High School?

Born and raised in Antes Fort, Pennsylvania, a community located in Lycoming County, Briana Conway graduated from Jersey Shore Area High School.

Family? Pets?

Briana is currently in the process of buying her first home with her boyfriend, Curtis. She also has two puppies, Bonnie and Ruger.

Job at JPW

Her face is usually the first one you see when you walk into JPW Industrial Ovens &Furnaces and the first voice you hear when you call. Briana has been the Front Desk Administrative Assistant since August of 2016. Some of her duties include shipping, invoicing, payroll, processing parts orders, and ordering supplies.

What is one thing no one knows about you?

Briana is an avid runner and hiker. She completed her first 25K this year and has logged nearly 100 miles on her running shoes since January.

Modified Standard Ovens: Save Time and Money

Posted on March 24, 2020 by jpwdesign

Modified Standard Ovens: Save Time and Money

Who doesn’t want to save time and money (crickets chirping)?

Selecting the proper equipment for your heat processing needs can be overwhelming. While you may think a completely customized oven is what you want, it may not be what you need.

Whether you need to replace an existing oven, upgrade a current process, or set up a different process with a new oven, many questions can arise. By speaking directly with one of our sales engineers, they can guide you to the best oven for your business.

One of JPW’s modified standard units may be right for you.

Modified Standard Ovens (Quick Ship)

Some of our most popular ovens are available for quick customization and shipment. We are providing off-shelf offerings to meet our customers’ growing needs.

“I recently had a customer call, and they were convinced that a custom oven was what they were looking for,” states Mike Jameson with JPW Ovens and Furnaces. “After asking a few simple questions, it turns out the customer could save nearly $60,000 purchasing two of our standard/quick ship ovens with slight modifications. And as for time, they will get the ovens eight weeks sooner by taking this route.”

Some of the fundamental questions first asked to a customer revolve around the oven size, operating temperature, fuel source, product loading, process requirements, and lead time.

While Jameson indicates that some ovens do need to be completely customized, many times, he can take one of the standard/quick ship ovens and modify it to increase their business volume and reduce their cycle time.

He adds, “Some of the options for modifying our standard units include installing vertical lift doors or reinforced floors, setting up various control or recording options, port location positions, and airflow patterns. There are so many possibilities, and I can help find the most cost-effective solutions for your needs.”

In closing, if you are looking to find the best oven to meet your needs while also saving time and money, give us a call. Let us help guide you to make the best decision and find out if one of our modified standard units is right for you. Our commitment to quality is a given. It is our unmatched customer service that sets us apart.

COVID-19 Announcement

Posted on March 23, 2020 by jpwdesign

JPW Industrial Ovens & Furnaces cares about the health and safety of our clients, employees, and their families. In response to the announcement made by Governor Tom Wolf regarding COVID-19, JPW will be open for production but closed to the public. Any pickups or deliveries must call in before arrival or check-in at our main entrance for instructions.

You can contact us any time with questions at (570) 995-5025. Our hours of operation are Monday-Friday 7:30 am-4:00 pm.

We will continue to monitor developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic and will adapt as recommended by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

We wish all of our clients, colleagues, and their family members continued safety and health. Together, we will get through this.

Meet Philip Welker

Posted on February 18, 2020 by jpwdesign

A graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Technology with an associates degree in welding, Philip Welker has been with JPW Industrial Ovens and Furnaces for nearly five years. He is a welder at the Plant 2 location.

“While I weld every day,” he says, “I am learning new ways, better ways to do my job as time goes on.”

Philip has called the Williamsport area home most of his life and is still very close with his family.

He adds, “When not working at JPW, I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend (of seven years), my mom, dad, two sisters and younger brother.”

If Philip isn’t found welding at JPW or spending time with his family, you can catch him watching professional wrestling or playing video games.

Two things you may not know about Philip are that he fixes broken video game consoles and controllers and is an avid audiobook listener.

“I have never been a reader, but I thought I would give audiobooks a try,” he says. “I was immediately hooked and have listened to about thirty over the past year or so.”

If you are visiting the Plant 2 location, don’t forget to stop by and say hello to Philip.