Kanthal Super is the standard heating element in melting pot furnaces. Kanthal Super, Superthal flat panels or silicon carbide heats feeder forehearths, and Kanthal Super/Superthal is used for extra downdraw heating.

Kanthal is the worlds leading supplier of silicon carbide elements to the float glass industry.
Continuous furnaces for glass bending, toughening etc. are heated by metallic wire elements or flexible Fibrothal heating modules
 
Kanthal Super Heating Elements

High power and long life electric heating elements for use up to very high temperatures. Manufactured as ready-made elements, straight or bent in a broad range of standard and special dimensions and shapes. Used mainly in laboratory furnaces and production furnaces in the glass-, electronics-, steel-, ceramics and heat treatment industry.

Six grades with specific features for use in new demanding applications and atmospheres. Kanthal Super can now be used directly in nitrogen, hydrogen, vacuum and mixtures of endogas and reducing atmospheres.