The country’s heavy reliance on New Zealand’s food processing industries requires an exceptionally good temperature verses time gradient to ensure products reach both local and overseas markets in premium condition. This is just one industry sector that Steelfort’s Heat Exchange Division produces products for.
The division manufactures Castle, a range of standard unit coolers and a wide variety of finned tube items to meet the specific and technical demands of this market.
In conjunction with the country’s experienced refrigeration engineers, the Steelfort in-house team use a mix of heating and cooling design programs. These programs are interpreted to predict the thermal primary and secondary surface area requirements that are the key parameters for the finned tube radiator block.
The Autodesk Inventor CAD package optimises the sheet metal fabrication portion, to provide complete and professional design packages.
A wealth of knowledge, depth skill and industry experience gained over more than 60 years from direct involvement, has positioned the company to operate equally well in local and export markets.
One product in particular, Air Handler Units (AHUs), combines CAD and Computer Numeric Controlled machinery to produce profiled and contoured panel.
Staff mould these around the stainless steel plate fins on expanded stainless steel tubes and mount the coil block with its stainless steel circuited bends and headers, into stainless steel tube sheets.
The results are a robust and totally hygienic, easily sanitised product that form a key element with the overall process.
The firm design and manufacture solutions to solve client’s problems. This often required the use of a variety of international safety & design codes. The welders are regularly being tested by third party organisations to ensure they have current welding certification
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