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Pacific Kilns Standard FlashFire Dewax System Revolutionized the Investment Casting Industry, delivering Crack free molds that are dewaxed, burned out and preheated in a single cycle.
Pacific Kiln: 40 Years of Innovation
As an accomplished ceramist and potter he had been instrumental in developing a new concept of pottery kilns using ceramic fiber insulation just introduced to him by Johns Manville Co. which had just been granted commercial license to market the material after success in the space shuttle program. In February 1978, Pacific Kiln &
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Insulations Co. was born. Based on the innovative technology of this new wonder insulation, Pacific Kiln soon became known as a leader in fuel efficient pottery kiln systems. However, as their fiber insulation supplier looked for new markets for their product, Pacific Kiln was asked to help their customers with applying this efficient new product to their kiln and furnace requirements. From metal melting, to forging, to heat treating, to burnout and preheat in the investment casting industry, everyone wanted to know how this new technology could make them more cost effective. It was in (1980), however, that Pacific Kiln and J.F. McCaughin Co. began a
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n 1977, Glenn Foster began developing the concept and plan to begin Pacific Kiln & Insulations Co.
relationship that would shape Pacific Kiln for the future. J.F. McCaughin Co. was a major supplier of materials and equipment to the investment casting industry in the western United States. Soon, the first exclusively designed furnace for burnout and preheat was developed for the investment casting foundry. Suddenly, a simple pottery kiln was armed with air operated doors, power flame safe burners, automatic temperature control and, above all, the first integrated afterburner. So was born the “Standard” Burnout Furnace that we still produce today. The afterburner made Pacific Kiln’s
burnout furnace the first of its kind to eliminate the smoke and smell of the burnout process. When Pacific Kiln guaranteed its customers that this system complied with the tough Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) it quickly became the standard in burnout furnaces in the Western investment casting industry. Soon, with the promotion of J.F. McCaughin Co. behind it, and air quality a major issue in Southern California, as well as, the entire West, the Pacific Kiln “Standard” Burnout Furnace took off at a
tremendous pace. Starting in a modest industrial space
in 1978, Pacific Kiln moved to larger quarters three times in the next (ten) years. In the late 1980’s Pacific Kiln was asked for a higher temperature furnace for increasingly higher temperature specification brought on by the high alloy and finer sections of aerospace, as well as, the golf industry. And so was born Pacific Kilns “New Generation”
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PACIFIC KILN & INSULATIONS CO.
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Manufacturers of Flashfire Dewax Systems®
, burnout and preheat furnaces;
batch, pusher and cartypes and elevator. Afterburner systems and air quality engineering and consultation. Furnace parts and accessories. Shellroom equipment: slurry mixers, barrel rain fall sanders, fluidizing beds and shell knockout equipment. Thermo-Flo™ floor and pusher tiles. Custom refractory materials.
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