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Three Solutions to Make a Building Winter Safe

As another winter season approaches, it’s important to analyze your home or business for prevention and protection against the changing weather. According to Disaster Safety, it only takes…

Robust and Reliable Heat Tracing in Extreme Environments

Raychem winter safety and performance solutions are helping enable one of the largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) projects in the world.

Sensing Techniques to Consider Before Selecting a Heat Tracing System

When selecting and designing a trace heating system, different aspects such as cost, reliability or efficiency are often some of the first criteria to come to mind. But one…

Avoid Clogged Disposal Drain Lines in Professional Kitchens

A high-performance kitchen means many things, but for the building’s Plumbing Engineer, one of the most important aspects to ensure optimal operations is to plan for an effective…

Protecting Buildings from Snow and Ice

How do you protect your building? The best protection is prevention. Heavy snow and the pattern of repeated freezing and thawing can create ice dams that destroy roofs,…

Winter Safe Solutions Protecting New York Area Mass Transit

Recent snowstorms have impacted transportation for millions along the east coast of North America. Among the areas affected by the inclement weather is one of the largest metropolitan…

Fault Finding on Self-Regulating Heat Tracing Cables

Earlier on the blog, we discussed how you could prepare your plant for winter with tips on winter safety in industrial applications. Today, we’re discussing how to do…

Why You Still Need Controllers With Self-Regulating Heating Cables

Self-regulating heating cables are the preferred choice for many complex pipe-tracing projects due to their ingenious technology and ability to be used in hazardous and dangerous environments. Self-regulating…

Heat Trace Systems that Guarantee Temperature Maintenance on Critical Phenol Transfer Lines

As humans, we all know how to prevent our body from overheating or undercooling due to variable weather conditions. When it’s winter and the temperature drops, we know…

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Calculating the Length of Heating Cable You Need

Determining the total length of heating cable needed for a project can be a challenge. With many factors such as size and space available to consider, the task…