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Heat-Flo, Inc. P.O. Box 105 Franklin, MA 02038 508.422.9880 www.heat-flo.com


Company History: Heat-Flo, Inc. was started in 1998 as a design, manufacturing, and marketing organization that focused on providing easy-to-install, high quality products that offered the installing contractor and the end user superior features and benefits. The first product introduced in 1999 was the indirect water heater. This platform product has expanded into dual coil indirect water heaters that are used in solar thermal systems, hot water storage tanks that provide high amounts of hot water to satisfy


Hydronic buffer tank


Mestek www.mestek.com


“dump loads,” and hydronic buffer tanks that improve the operating efficiency of heat pumps, low mass boilers and chillers. New Products: This year Heat-Flo is offering hydronic


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buffer tanks with optional internal heat exchanger coils. Water-to-water heat pumps can use the buffer tanks to reduce compressor short cycling and hydraulically decouple the heat source from the distribution system. The buffer tanks can use the lower heat exchanger coil to add heat from solar collectors and reduce heat pump on time when solar heat is available. The top coil in the buffer tank can be used to preheat domestic hot water reducing water heater on time. All of the new products that are in the development stages


come directly from the close working relationship with the customer base. This clear picture of a need in the market place allows Heat-Flo to get new product to market faster. Our focus for the future is to leverage our product and process expertise and apply it to new products in the heating and hydronic fields, and in the growing alternate energy fields.


Company History: Hydrotherm is a division of Mestek, Inc., a group of over 36 specialty manufacturers providing diverse residential and commercial HVAC and metal forming products is headquartered in Westfield, Massachusetts with manufacturing facilities across the United States, Canada and China. Family owned since the mid 1940s by the Reed family Mestek continues to provide industry leading technologies to all HVAC market categories. Hydrotherm Boilers is a leading manufacturer of high efficiency cast-iron boilers in both the residential and commercial markets with units to fit any application from 70,000 to 3,000,000 Btus in single boiler applications. Hydrotherm was the originator of the modular boiler concept where multiple single input boiler units were linked together providing maximum efficiency and application flexibility. As a continuation of Hydrotherm’s commitment to innovative and state-of-the-art products, the KN-Series boiler, the industry’s first condensing cast-iron boiler, was introduced more than seven years ago. Company News: RBI’s Futera Fusion's innovative design is


Hydrotherm's KN-30 condensing cast iron boiler is available in sizes ranging from 200 MBH to 3000 MBH, and offers ultra high efficiencies of up to 99% in a compact footprint.


PVC vent approved, the RBI Fusion’s condensing secondary heat exchanger is solid stainless steel and designed to operate at the boiler's full flow rate.


Slant/Fin Corp. 100 Forest Drive Greenvale, NY 11548 516.484.2600 www.slantfin.com


Trends: Slant/Fin was founded by Mel Dubin in 1949. It was started in the back of a bakery in Coney Island, N.Y. Slant/Fin has grown and is now America’s largest manufacturer of baseboard heating equipment. Slant/Fin is also one of the top three makers of gas boilers and oil boilers. Since 1949, heating contractors, engineers and builders have depended on Slant/Fin for products of the highest quality. Company News: 2011 is an exciting year for Slant/Fin. The


The Lynx combi boiler provides heat and domestic hot water built into one neat and compact cabinet. The amount of hot water produced is largely dependent on the BTUH output of the boiler, the desired flow rate, the temperature of the hot water desired and the temperature of the incoming cold water.


company just released the new Lynx combi boiler, which is available in two sizes — and it expects to be releasing its first stainless steel condensing gas boiler in early summer. With a lot of other plans, Slant/Fin is excited about 2011 and looking for a great heating season, come the fall and winter months. There are plenty of jobs on the horizon and Slant/Fin is looking forward to continued growth in the market with the bounce back of the economy.


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the ideal choice for applications with low operating, return, or make-up water temperatures. Unlike most condensing products available today, which publish the highest efficiencies at the lowest inputs, the Fusion is capable of attaining efficiencies as high as 99% at full input. Fusion’s full modulation firing system continuously varies the energy input to precisely match heating load without over-firing and wasting fuel providing extremely high part-load efficiencies. Boiler Market Forecast: The innovative product offerings


Mestek has to offer has enabled it to maintain its strong economic performance through 2009 and 2010 due largely to the solid retrofit market, which can be attributed to both stimulus fund availability and private funding being allocated for energy efficient equipment.


Navien America www.navienamerica.us


Navien’s


Company News:The next step in the tankless market is the integration of combination systems that include hydronic heating and potable water heating. Navien’s new Combi Gas boiler/water heater is able to supply space heating and converts to domestic water heating on demand. Through the use Navien’s Advance Hydronic Software, the Combi system is able to instantaneously switch between space heating capabilities to supplying domestic hot water, then back to space heating.


Condensing Combi Gas Boiler/Water Heaters are the ideal solution for customers who need


both domestic hot water and a space heating application.


phc may 2011 www.phcnews.com


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