Insulation and environmental protection are the two major concerns of industrial engineers and consultants. The high numbers of accidents, breakdowns, and the rising cost of maintenance are the common guiding forces that keep the electrical, electronic, sanitization, chemical, and processing engineers busy in finding the effective solution to keep the wires, cables, accessories, and pipes safe and protected against moisture, environmental impact, mechanical impacts and usage footprints. The ever-
expanding range of heat shrink accessories provides cost-effective industrial solutions to lower the maintenance cost and to reduce the faults, breakdowns, life loss etc.
Challenges for Electrical Products in Industrial Environment:
Electrical engineering has almost no scope for error in the industrial setting. Technology is making advances at a breakneck pace to maintain uninterrupted supply all across the processing units. The ever-expanding range of heat shrink products to strengthen the protection cover of wires, joints, connection pillars, poles, pipes, and other areas is the outcome of a holistic approach to maintaining a fault-free power supply. To manage workplace hazards, exposure to electric shock, electrocution burn, fire
breakouts, and explosions like challenges in an industrial environment is a marathon task but easy availability of heat shrink tubes, corrosion protection tube, power cable accessories, bus-bar sleeves etc simplifies the task. The ready-to-use corrosion protective heat shrink insulation covers make the electrical installation safe and long-lasting. Although the use of heat shrink tubes and other accessories is increasing in industrial settings; still, the numbers of SMEs are suffering with high losses because of not adapting heat shrink technology. Embrace heat shrink products to compete with increased
profitability.
Heat Shrink Products – Custom Solutions for Industrial Installation:
Heat shrink products can be categorized for objective-oriented solutions. For example,
- Insulation Enhancement Products
- Screened Separable Connectors
- Heat Shrinkable Joints
- Heat Shrinkable Moulded Shapes
- Heat Shrink Tubes or Heat Shrink Sleeves
- Switchgear Insulation Products
- Cable Repair Products
- Corrosion Protection Products
- Pole Protection Products ……
When you explore the heat shrink product line of a leading brand like Gala Thermo, you will find the ready to use and easy to adopt the solution for strengthening the protection cover at very nominal price. Heat shrink products are made of cross linked polyolefin material that has the unique property of shrinking up to 3:1 on being heated. The selection of heat shrink product is made on the base of size obtained after heating. For example, heat shrink tube size after shrinkage should be smaller than the cable size. These products are highly effective for sealing moisture and dirt which are the major source of corrosion. Because of being made of polyolefin, these products have excellent properties as per IEC
60684-3-247 standard and IP 68. The resistance to UV rays, weathering, chemicals, and solvents make heat shrink products must to use to make the piping and electrical cabling installations long-lasting, environment protected, and human-friendly.
I say To Conclude:
Turning to embrace any new technology depends upon the suitability to a particular objective, effectiveness, required training, additional cost, availability, support etc. The heat shrink product market, primarily based on increasing global acceptance of ‘shape memory effect’ technology, is expected to reach up to USD 2.3 billion by 2024. Almost any industrial electrical installation and piping need heat shrink products. Just audit the security and safety gaps in your existing electrical and piping installation to eliminate the identified possibility of a fire breakout, explosion, short-circuit accidents,
property loss, and frequent maintenance etc.