Drum Heaters & Barrel Insulated Heating Jackets

Thorne & Derrick International are the UK’s largest supplier and worldwide exporter of the most extensive range of Heating Jackets, Base Heaters & Custom Insulated Heating products – this includes both non-hazardous (“safe area”) and hazardous area certified heaters with ATEX and IECEx certification suitable for Zone 1 and Zone 2 potentially explosive atmospheres.

Drum heaters safely warm the contents of drums protecting against frost damage and deformation of contents – providing optimum and uniform heating to drums ensuring viscosity control, freeze protection, temperature maintenance and melting of solids.

• Insulated Heating Jackets
• Base Heaters
• Silicone Side Heater
• Hazardous Area Heaters (ATEX Certified) 

Thorne & Derrick International are a trusted UK stockist, supplier and distributor of insulated drum heater and drum heating products worldwide. Contact our heating and process experts for engineered solutions, technical advice, quotations, and fast delivery for both UK & export orders.

Thorne & Derrick DO NOT sell heating jackets via e-commerce. This is so we can ensure our technical sales team can provide fit for purpose heating solutions.

Drum Heating

Thorne & Derrick’s drum heaters provide even distribution and transfer of electric surface heat to without risk of hot or cold spots by thermostatically controlled insulated heating jackets up to 220° Celsius – heating drum contents to maintain flow and protect against frost.

➡ T&D can deliver from stock compatible IBC Heaters and Heating Jackets to suit all brands of IBC to ensure free flowing or viscous liquids, granular, powders or semi solids – including ATEX certified IBC’s heater for hazardous areas.

A complete range are available to provide consistent electric surface heating to the drum – the heaters maintain product flow and reduce product loss by thermostatically controlled application of heat. Even high viscosity substances can be heated to reduce residue waste during the dispensing process of drum media caused by low, cold or freezing temperatures.

Heating solutions are available to provide rapid or gradual heating for storage of fluids and liquids at consistent or critical temperatures – heating jackets provide thermal insulation to stored containers to prevent drums freezing in winter months and for cold temperature storage in warehouses.

Drum Heater Features & benefits

Drum heaters provide a controlled, safe source of electric surface heating to the drum to either maintain or raise the temperature of the contents – this includes heating 25L, 50L, 105L or 200L drums manufactured from steel or plastic and stored in non-hazardous or hazardous area locations.

Made In The UK – high performance drum heaters provide reliable heating to all type of standard and custom drum containers

205 Litre Drums

Heaters for new, recycled or reconditioned drums manufactured from steel or plastic with standard 205 litre capacity (45 gallons) – drums can be effectively heated containing petro-chemicals, resins, paints, dyes and building materials for the construction industry.

The pictured side heater is easy to fit using quick release buckles with an adjustable thermostat for maintaining constant process temperatures or frost protection of drum contents in storage or warehouse locations – available with power supply options of 110 volts or 230 volts.

Drum Heaters – 0-40°C or 0-90°C Thermostat Options

Customised Heating

Benefit from Thorne & Derrick’s vast project experience in providing customised drum heating jackets, quilts and blankets – suitable for both indoor and outdoor use to maintain temperatures during winter and provide frost protection. Heating jackets can be designed with internal heating elements/cables, mounting straps, thermostats and cable and plug connections for powering the heating jacket via local electrical supply.

Bespoke Heating Jacket Solutions

T&D can specify and supply Electric Heaters according to heat loss calculations, vessel size and power requirements – hazardous area certified drum heaters intended for use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Directive (ATEX Certified) can be supplied suitable for Zone 1 and Zone 2 locations and most temperature classes (T Rating).

Call T&D With Your Drum Heating Enquiry – largest UK stocks, expert technical support, competitive prices.

Industrial & Hazardous Area Containers

Mauser are the leading supplier of plastic drums in North America.

T&D stock drum heaters to provide surface heating to containers handling temperature sensitive and dangerous goods – this includes electrical heating jackets for plastic or steel drums containing liquids, powders or solids.

We supply drum heaters for liquid, solid or powdered substances for EU, USA or UN authorisation – ensuring the safe transport of hazardous liquids.

Standard and customised heaters are available so suit open top drums (70 to 220 litre capacity) to DIN EN ISO 20848-1 and DIN EN 12714.

Typical applications include heating drums containing paints, inks, dyes foodstuffs, beverages, cosmetics oils and industrial chemicals.

Disconnect the heater from the power source when the drum is empty, being filled, installed or removed.

Insulated Heating Jackets

Insulated Drum Heating Jacket

T&D insulated drum heating jackets are ideal for reducing the heat loss once a drum has been heated and for providing drum insulation to ensure frost protection. Drum heating jackets can be used in conjunction with drum base heaters to provide a complete heated and insulation solution.

Insulated jackets are wrapped around the outside of the drum and secured with the clips attached to the jacket. Easy to install and with custom jackets available made to order, insulated drum jackets are also waterproof and provide an extremely cost effective method of reducing thermal transfer.

The jackets also feature a flap for filler access meaning the drum can still be filled with the jacket on. Manufactured from high performance polyester, the blanket insulation contained within layers of flame retardant polyester gives the heating jacket a durable and industrial feel.

Jackets are manufactured with easy to fit Velcro fixing strips or easy release buckles depending on the drum size.

Base Heaters

The base heater uses a silicone rubber insulated mat situated underneath the base plate that sits underneath the drum to provide even surface heating to drums or containers up to 200 litres or 45 gallons.

Base drum heaters are ideal for melting or reducing the viscosity of soaps, fats, wax and oil based products. The base heater can be used alone or if quicker heating is required can be used in conjunction with silicone side heaters or insulated drum jackets.

In addition to providing a heat source, T&D’s base drum heaters can be used as a method of frost protection.

See how T&D’s Drum Base Heaters reduce thermal loss from underneath the drum.

Silicone Drum Side Heaters

Silicone Side Drum Heater

T&D silicone side drum heaters provide even heat distribution to drums in order to avoid hot spots for containers with foodstuffs such as sugar, vegetable oil, glucose and fats. Silicone side heater bands from T&D are attached to the outside of the drum and secured with a simple spring and hook fixing.

The band is manufactured from a double insulated rubber and has IP40 ingress protection. T&D silicone side drum heaters are effective and simple to use, offering exceptional performance and incorporates a capillary or electronic thermostat for precise temperature control.

The heating element delivers uniform heating from accurately positioned PTFE-coated, multi-stranded resistance wires and the drum heater is manufactured to conform to the EEC low voltage and EMC directives and are CE marked accordingly.

ATEX Hazardous Area Drum Heating

Zone 1 Zone 2 Certified

ATEX drum heater jackets provide gentle and controlled heating and heat retention of drums operated and stored in Zone 0, Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous areas. Many substances used and stored in hazardous working areas must be maintained at a process temperature and frost protected.

Contact us should your facility or plant require heat tracing for frost protection of pipework or process heating of hazardous area located pipes.

Hazardous locations and potentially explosive atmospheres occur in many industries and workspaces including oil and gas, petrochemical, offshore and pharmaceutical.

Thorne & Derrick provide a range of ATEX certified insulated heating jackets for both drums and IBCs – we can specify, design and manufacture bespoke options where required.

ATEX Drum Heater WEXHD

hEATING Open or Closed Top Drums?

Drums are either open head (removable lid) or tight/closed head (secured permanently). Open-head drums are where frequent addition or extraction of the contents occurs. making it easier to work with solids and thicker liquids (soils, absorbents, syrups, glues, oils). Tight-head drums are usually used with lower viscosity liquids.

See our range of electric heaters suitable for both steel or plastic containers containing chemicals, soaps, solvents, paints, waxes or oil based products which require heating to ensure smooth flow and transfer of fluids or liquids.

➡ For further information about our range of Drum Heaters please see the product sections below.