NUTEC BICKLEY

We manufacture custom industrial furnaces and kilns

For the World's Most Demanding Thermal Processes

NUTEC  Bickley

Specialists in Industrial Furnace Design, for over 50 years

Part of NUTEC Group, NUTEC Bickley has spent more than 50 years designing, building, and installing combustion systems, thermal insulation, and complete industrial furnaces and kilns for the ceramics and metals industries. We start where others don't: your specific firing or thermal process, engineered from your production requirements rather than a standard catalog.

Industrial Furnaces for Metals

Industrial Furnaces for Metals

For the metals industry, NUTEC Bickley engineers custom furnace systems — drop bottom, car type, box, bell, and walking beam furnaces — for heat treating, annealing, aging, stress relief, quenching, and solution heat treatment. Our furnaces serve aluminum and steel heat treating, forging, ferrous casting, and tube, rod, and wire producers, meeting the tight uniformity and compliance requirements of the automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, and oil & gas industries. As with our kiln systems, every furnace is built on our Jointless® fiber lining for low-maintenance, long-term thermal performance.

Kilns for Ceramics and Advanced Materials

Kilns for Ceramics and Advanced Materials

NUTEC Bickley designs and manufactures high-performance ceramic kilns — including tunnel, shuttle (intermittent kilns), roller, elevator, and rotary kilns, and the patented Carbell® Kiln, of which we've delivered more than 500 worldwide — engineered around each customer's firing cycle, temperature uniformity, and material behavior. We serve sanitaryware, technical ceramics, refractories, porcelain insulators, vitrified clay pipe, tableware, abrasives, and advanced materials such as ceramic matrix composites and high-purity alumina for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Every kiln integrates premium fiber lining and ECOmbustion™ control technology to minimize fuel consumption.

Thermal Performance Engineering

Thermal Performance Engineering

NUTEC Bickley's engineers design and upgrade the combustion, control, and energy recovery systems that determine how efficiently a furnace or kiln actually runs — from pre-wired, fully tested control panels with integrated PLC and alarm logic, to gas, oxygen, and diesel fuel trains built to NFPA, NOM, IRI, and FM safety codes, backed by the spare parts and on-site technical service that keep those systems running long after startup. We apply the same process-first engineering to retrofits and combustion upgrades on equipment already in operation as we do to every new furnace and kiln we build — extending service life, cutting fuel consumption, and keeping thermal systems running at the specification they were built for.

Fabrication and Installation Services

Fabrication and Installation Services

Beyond equipment design, NUTEC Bickley's engineers provide fabrication, pre-assembly, and on-site installation services — including continuous galvanizing furnace lines, aluminum melting and holding furnaces, and roller hearth furnaces — supervised by our own mechanical and electrical technicians to reduce labor costs, delays, and integration issues with third-party equipment. Backed by ISO 9001:2015 accreditation, we support customers from the first engineering conversation through startup, and long after.