On the floor, oven downtime doesn’t just eat minutes—it eats money. Every minute the oven sits idle, you’re bleeding thousands. And when preform heating drifts, you don’t just get weak bottles—you get scrap. Hit a lamp failure and the whole line stops dead until the replacement shows up. So we built an infrared lamp with a gold reflector plate to deal with exactly these headaches. What matters under the hood The emitter is a short-wave quartz tube, matched to the thermal behavior of PET preforms. The gold reflector gives you tight spectral control, focusing energy onto the preform wall and wasting less heat. Output stays stable across the heating tunnel, so temperature distribution is repeatable from the first cavity to the last. It uses an R7s connector for a straight drop-in fit, and the assembly is built to take the heat and vibration inside Sidel, Krones, SIPA, Husky, SACMI, and Nissei ASB blow molders. Why it behaves on the line Recovery is fast, so you can push higher line speeds without scorching the preform surface. Power draw drops because the reflector keeps the beam tight and the quartz tube heats only when it needs to. Reliability holds up because the materials handle rapid on/off cycling, and the reflector keeps its reflectance over time. Fewer lamp changes, fewer stops, and more consistent bottle wall thickness and weight. The practical details Installation is straightforward, but alignment is the make-or-break. The reflector has to be set parallel to the preform path; otherwise, you’ll see uneven heating and inconsistent blowing. The gold surface is sensitive to contamination—clean it with a non-abrasive wipe and never touch it with bare fingers. If your machine runs extended cycles beyond typical duty, tell us. We can tweak the wattage and tube geometry to match the duty cycle and keep the heating profile inside spec.