Overview of Products & Services

The heart of Tetronics’ business is its unparalleled range of DC plasma arc systems. These include cathodic (negative polarity) and anodic (positive polarity) transferred arc torches, non-transferred torches (often used for gas heating), graphite electrodes and also the TwinTorch™ system, which uses a pair of transferred arc devices of opposing polarities connected in series. These systems form the basis of the other products and services offered by Tetronics.

Extensive research work over many years has led to the development of a large number of products aimed at specific applications. Some of the most important of these include the heating of steel in the tundish of a continuous casting process and the treatment of a wide variety of waste materials for remediation and material recovery.

Environmental technologies are becoming of ever greater importance. Tetronics has several major commercial reference plants and a strong history of research in this area, including the treatment of hazardous organic, inorganic and mixed wastes, the recovery of platinum group metals from catalysts, the treatment of metallurgical wastes and the stabilisation of radioactive wastes. With the inherently clean nature of plasma arc technology, Tetronics is ideally placed to contribute to improving the quality of life and the environment. Clean heating also makes plasma an ideal choice for the melting of high quality glass and silica for optical applications and for the melting of titanium, silicon and other reactive materials, where the avoidance of contamination is of paramount importance.

Nanopowders are another exciting growth area in manufacturing technology and Tetronics has technologies for the production and processing of powders in general and for nanopowder production in particular.