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Nexthermal Nexthermal, headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan is a heating elements manufacturer focused on providing custom heating solutions for your application.

Join us for the final day at Pack Expo International in Chicago! We're at South Hall, booth S-1415.Having seal or heat-r...
10/21/2026

Join us for the final day at Pack Expo International in Chicago! We're at South Hall, booth S-1415.

Having seal or heat-related issues with your packaging applications? Come see us!

Silicone Rubber vs. Polyimide Heaters: Choosing the Right Fit⚙️ COMMON APPLICATIONS & SELECTION GUIDANCE🔹 Life Science T...
10/20/2026

Silicone Rubber vs. Polyimide Heaters: Choosing the Right Fit

⚙️ COMMON APPLICATIONS & SELECTION GUIDANCE
🔹 Life Science Test Equipment
Maintain precise temperatures in incubators, analyzers, and sample preparation systems, often with limited space and complex shapes.
Best choice: Polyimide for its low profile, fast response, and precise control.
🔹 Electric Motor Stators
Prevent condensation during cold starts and shutdowns while withstanding vibration and long-term duty.
Best choice: Silicone rubber for durability and excellent moisture and chemical resistance.
🔹 Power Transmission — SF₆ Tanks
Maintain proper tank temperatures to prevent condensation and preserve insulating properties across large surfaces in outdoor environments.
Best choice: Silicone rubber for rugged, weather-resistant, long-life performance.
🔹 Electrical Enclosures
Prevent moisture buildup in low ambient temperatures. Limited space and fast-response requirements may influence selection.
Best choice: Polyimide for low-profile, fast-response designs; silicone rubber for rugged, long-life use.

💲 COST CONSIDERATIONS
Silicone rubber heaters:
• Generally lower cost for standard designs
• More material and thicker construction
• Cost-effective for larger sizes and rugged applications
Polyimide heaters:
• Typically higher cost due to specialized materials and thinner, more complex manufacturing
• High-temperature adhesives, custom shapes, and tight tolerances can increase cost
• Performance advantages can justify the premium in high-temperature or space-constrained applications

🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS
Choose silicone rubber heaters when durability, moisture and chemical resistance, and cost-effectiveness are priorities.
Choose polyimide heaters for high-temperature, low-profile, fast-response applications where space and weight are critical.
Consider the operating environment, required temperature, available space, response time, and total cost of ownership when making your selection.

We’re headed to Pack Expo Chicago this Sunday! 🎉Visit Nexthermal at Booth S-1415 to see our custom heating and temperatu...
10/15/2026

We’re headed to Pack Expo Chicago this Sunday! 🎉

Visit Nexthermal at Booth S-1415 to see our custom heating and temperature sensing solutions for packaging: cartridge heaters for sealing jaws, ceramic infrared heaters for shrink tunnels, and coil heaters embedded in stainless steel plates for custom top sealing.
Got a tough sealing, shrinking, or thermoforming application? Bring it by. Our engineers are ready to talk shop.

📍 McCormick Place, Chicago | Booth S-1415
📅 October 18–21, 2026

A $40 cartridge heater fails. The real bill? $10,000 or more.Unplanned downtime. Scrapped parts. A mold, platen, or seal...
10/15/2026

A $40 cartridge heater fails. The real bill? $10,000 or more.
Unplanned downtime. Scrapped parts. A mold, platen, or sealing jaw out of commission. A maintenance crew fighting a heater seized in its bore.
Across plastics, packaging, life sciences, and industrial equipment, the same culprits show up again and again:
- Loose bore fit: air gaps trap heat and burn out the element
- Watt density mismatched to the application
- Hot and cold spots that hurt part quality and seal integrity
- Heaters that seize and damage tooling during removal
- Lead and termination failures from heat, flexing, and contamination

Most of these failures are decided long before the heater is installed. They start when the heater is chosen from a catalog instead of engineered for the application.
The fix starts upfront: define the real challenges first. Operating temperature, cycle rate, bore fit, vibration, contamination, and how the heater will come out at end of life. Then work with a partner who has seen enough applications to know what goes wrong, and design it out before it costs you a production run.

That's where decades of application experience matter. Nexthermal's engineers diagnose application challenges of every variety and build the solution into the heater:
- Precision sheath tolerance (±.002") for a tight fit and better heat transfer
- Swaged, highly compacted construction for longer heater life
- Industry-specific winding profiles to even out the thermal profile
- Anti-seize coating for easier extraction
- eheat heaters: faster response, energy efficient, drop-in replacements
- Optional built-in Type J or K thermocouples for tighter control
- Numerous permutations of termination styles to best suit the application environment
- Commitment to a design that yields optimal performance

The cheapest heater is rarely the least expensive one. The right one is engineered correctly the first time.

What's the most expensive heater failure you've dealt with? Share it in the comments.

The industrial heating market is changing. Supplier priorities and behaviors are changing. Your customers’ expectations ...
10/13/2026

The industrial heating market is changing. Supplier priorities and behaviors are changing. Your customers’ expectations are not. They still expect you to respond quickly, solve difficult applications, support custom requirements and deliver a dependable solution.

When your traditional suppliers become less responsive, less flexible or less interested in engineered opportunities, you still have a customer depending on you.

Nexthermal is moving in the other direction. For 40 years, our business has been built around solving demanding industrial heating applications and supporting the customers and distributors who bring them to us.

We want the challenging applications. Custom designs. Prototypes. Distributor orders. Small and mid-sized OEMs. Your opportunity doesn’t have to be enormous to matter to Nexthermal.

We now have CSA approval on cartridge heaters! Contact us for your next Canadian project.Delivering trusted smart heat m...
10/12/2026

We now have CSA approval on cartridge heaters! Contact us for your next Canadian project.

Delivering trusted smart heat management® solutions for the world’s toughest industrial thermal challenges.
Engineered with passion.
Delivered with decades of experience.

Keep your coil heater and the heat 🔒 LOCKED 🔒with the Constrictor GripLock. Not only will this help with temperature con...
09/29/2026

Keep your coil heater and the heat 🔒 LOCKED 🔒with the Constrictor GripLock. Not only will this help with temperature control, transfer, and retention, but it has the added benefit of extending your heater's life. Ask about our Constrictor GripLock technology the next time you need a coil heater!

Skip sending in a drawing to get the right tubular heater and form it by hand! Check out Nexthermal's NEXTFLEX hand-form...
09/28/2026

Skip sending in a drawing to get the right tubular heater and form it by hand! Check out Nexthermal's NEXTFLEX hand-formable Tubular Heater as a quick, ready-to-deliver solution.

Coming soon...Experience Nexthermal in a brand new way.
07/29/2026

Coming soon...

Experience Nexthermal in a brand new way.

Check out our brand new Nextflex Calculator / Selector tool. The calculator allows you to enter in the straight and bent...
07/13/2026

Check out our brand new Nextflex Calculator / Selector tool. The calculator allows you to enter in the straight and bent lengths of your manifold groove and will automatically calculate and round to the correct Nextflex selection. The tool is also capable of analyzing a manifold or a drawing with dimensions to select the proper Nextflex for you.

Try it out at https://hubs.la/Q04p2ywL0

Address

1045 Harts Lake Road
Battle Creek, MI
49037

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 5pm
Tuesday 7am - 5pm
Wednesday 7am - 5pm
Thursday 7am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 12am

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+12699640271

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