Heat Cables vs. Heat Tape: What is Best for My Project?
When it comes to ensuring your building is protected against winter weather, there are lots of options. Many will turn to heat tape or heat cables. But which…
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The Case for Heat Tracing for Freeze Protection
The chaos caused by extreme cold, huge snowstorms and subfreezing temperatures in February 2021 offered strong empirical evidence that heat tracing for freeze protection, deicing, and process temperature maintenance is…
2021 Winter Weather and HWAT Systems
One of the small annoyances of winter weather, coming out of the cold and not having hot water flowing immediately from your tap. Waiting for hot water to arrive at your sink wastes…
Simplifying Panel Design to Help Reduce Project Lead Times
While everyone wants to reduce project lead time, designing a heat tracing system can be overwhelming. Adding control panels on top of that can complicate matters and potentially delay…
Heat Tracing Solutions for MRO Services During Winter
If you are looking to reduce operation downtime at your facility, then a yearly MRO (maintenance, repair, optimization) review should be top of mind. Let’s explore what a…
Water Pipe Freeze Protection for Hand Washing Stations
As construction sites around the nation slowly get back to work, new precautions have been put in place to help keep workers safe. Many states have expanded requirements in workplaces and jobsites to…
What is Pipe Freeze Protection?
In many cold and freezing environments, insulation is not enough to protect pipe systems from freezing. However, facilities that aren’t regularly in subzero environments are at risk for freezing weather at some point in…
Deploying Wireless Solutions to Reduce EHT Project Costs
For your industrial facility, installing the infrastructure necessary to create a network for your controllers can be time consuming and expensive – installing tray, pulling wire, terminations –…
I Hate the Snow Shovel! Should I Get a Heated Driveway?
Winter is here, which means so is heavy snowfall in many parts of North America and with that snow comes the terrible task of clearing it away. For those with large paths and…
Safety & Liability Implications of Winter
Winter weather is, in a word, unpredictable – which can be tough for business owners. It’s important to plan ahead and try to minimize risk by implementing freeze and snow…