ETTER Engineering is excited to announce the launch of SPECTRUM, a series of engineering and audit services designed to empower business owners in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace.

In many cases, both the cost of the services provided by ETTER Engineering as well as any suggested equipment upgrades or other expenses incurred can be offset by utility rebate programs and government tax credits.

SPECTRUM provides seven different services:

• Energy Efficiency Audits
• Productivity Audits
• Safety Audits
• Environmental Audits
• Data Acquisition Studies
• Quality Audits
• Profitability Audits

Although each case is different, many of ETTER’s clients stand to see significant ROI within a short period of time after going through a SPECTRUM audit. For example, a plant with an annual fuel bill of $300,000 could see upwards of a 5% decrease in fuel costs after going through an Energy Efficiency Audit – that’s an annual savings of over $15,000! In much the same manner, an operation that regularly deals with unplanned downtime due to equipment failure stands to gain significantly by upgrading to newer, more reliable process equipment.

To learn more about how SPECTRUM can help your business, call ETTER Engineering today at 800-444-1962!

After many months of searching, and several more months of construction and planning, the big day is finally upon us! ETTER Engineering is officially moving its headquarters from our current location in Cheshire, Connecticut, to our new corporate headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. Although we’re only moving about 10 minutes up the road, we’re moving forward in a big way. Our new facility is nearly three times as large as our current space, and will feature state-of-the-art work cells for our manufacturing division, advanced R&D and testing capabilities, and, of course, that “new” building look and feel!

Friends and customers looking to contact us can continue to reach us at our Toll Free #: 800-444-1962, or via our new local telephone #: 860-584-8842. Our new fax # is 860-584-8612. Our new mailing/shipping address is: 210 Century Drive, Bristol, CT 06010.

If you’re in the area, feel free to stop by for a tour of our new digs!

To produce a Toyota Prius requires anywhere from 24-35 pounds of neodymium, dysprosium, and lanthanum – all rare-earth metals – and that number will only increase as greater fuel efficiencies are sought in the coming years. Those same REs are also used to produce LCD screens, computer hard drives, fiber optic cables, digital cameras, and medical imaging devices, which is another reason why demand for REs is soon expected to drastically exceed supply unless new production sources are found.

Proponents of increased CAFE standards (and the hybrid and electric vehicles that go along with those higher standards) frequently reference the need to end U.S. dependence on “foreign oil,” but I’m not sure they realize that in doing so, we may be simply trading one dependency for another. Perhaps the biggest irony is that the U.S. was once the largest producer of REs before strict environmental regulations led to the death of the industry in the U.S. As the author points out, “what is now being required by the green movement and our government was run out of this country by the same folks just over a decade ago.”

The second installment of ETTER Engineering’s Inside the Job series details our work with Podojil Builders of Brecksville, Ohio.

Podojil Builders was contracted to build a new International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a city with notoriously low gas pressure. Upon discovering the restaurant equipment would require a pressure of nearly 3″ W.C. greater than local utility Philadelphia Gas Works could provide, Podojil Builders Vice President Paul Podojil contacted ETTER Engineering in the hopes of finding a natural gas booster that met several specific criteria: It had to be of the highest quality, it had to be efficient, and it had to be delivered on-time…and fast. Fortunately for pancake lovers across the City of Brotherly Love, ETTER was able to deliver on all accounts.

After discussions with Podojil Builders, ETTER’s ENGB Team went to work, specifying an ENGBP gasPOD^TM packaged gas booster utilizing an ETTER ENGB1 gas booster designed to produce up to 3″ W.C. Boost at 2,300 SCFH. For a project on a tight deadline, the ENGBP packaged system was perfect, as Podojil Builders didn’t have to worry about a complicated on-site installation. The booster showed up skid-mounted, piped, and wired, meaning it was able to be installed and running within minutes if the need arose.

Between the work ETTER has done at the Boston Fish Pier and now at the International House of Pancakes, it looks like we’re going to need to start seeking out combustion related work at the local gym…anyone know of a gym in need of a gas booster?

For more information on the IHOP project described above, check out our latest installment of “Inside the Job”

As the Bryan Donkin USA Regional Master Distributor for New England, New York, and New Jersey, ETTER Engineering is excited to announce that Bryan Donkin USA has received CSA 6.22 Approval for the company’s 240, 260 and 274 regulator lines. The company also said they have obtained the indoor vent-less approval for line pressure regulators (Section Z21.80) by applying the SD-OPCO (safety diaphragm in conjunction with the Over Pressure Cut-Out Device) to each of these models; additionally, the OPCO’s have been individually approved by CSA 6.22.

As a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory, CSA has developed a reputation as a trusted authority and certification association for electrical, mechanical, plumbing, gas and other products. CSA International is accredited by national agencies including OSHA, ANSI, NVLAP, NES, and SCC. OSHA accredited laboratories are certified to conduct tests to applicable U.S. standards, including ANSI, UL, CSA, NSF and others.

For more information about Bryan Donkin USA, call 1-866-469-7347 or visit online at www.bryandonkinusa.com

For a driver that puts 12,000 miles per year on their vehicle, a $3,500 to $4,500 rebate on the purchase of a new vehicle getting between four and ten miles per gallon better than the consumer’s trade-in, with gas in the U.S. at an average of $2.75 per gallon means it will be five to six years before the government sees a return on their investment. An investment, remember, that was made with taxpayer dollars (that’s you and I!). With the life of an average car at just over six years, this really isn’t that great an investment.

The math on a new burner upgrade looks like this: replacing a typical 5 MM Btu/hr burner that runs 16 hours a day with a new unit that is five to seven percent more efficient yields savings of over $16,000 per year (annual operating costs, at $10 per Deca-therm, goes from $230,400 per year to $207,360 per year). A burner upgrade will only cost about $8,000, which means the investment will pay itself off within five to six months, not years! The average life of a burner is well over 10 years, so the savings over the lifetime of the unit are not only tangible but significant as well.

Further costs savings, on the order of another six to ten percent, can be realized by upgrading old fashioned controls with new linkageless controls. Adding active exhaust control or LEL monitoring, reducing system fuel requirements by over 20% by minimizing latent heat losses going out of your stack.

No matter how you look at it, you’re better off keeping the clunker in your driveway and upgrading your burner(s) this fall!

To learn more about how ETTER can save you money on a burner upgrade, call us today at 1-800-444-1962 or send an email to info@etterengineering.com today!

As our Outside Marketing Associate, she will be taking on the role of “road warrior”, if you will. That being said, you might expect to see her around your place of business in the near future! She will be acting as the friendly face of ETTER Engineering, keeping all of our clients up to date on the products and services we have to offer. Don’t worry….she won’t be there to pester you to buy anything. In fact, most of your process heating & combustion lingo will probably go right over her head for now while she learns the ins and outs of the industry…believe it or not, her Marketing courses didn’t include Engineering 101!

However, she is extremely friendly and always willing to help. So if you see her around, feel free to ask her anything, whether it be a question about a product we sell or a new system you need to be quoted on. Whatever she doesn’t know off-hand, she can certainly find out for you!

Several years in the making, it’s safe to say the ENGB has turned into our baby here at ETTER. Launching a new product in a down economy was certainly a nerve-racking endeavor, but it’s one that we’re proud to say has been successful!

For more information on the ENGB line of natural gas boosters, visit the ETTER Engineering ENGB Natural Gas Booster website at www.etterengineering.com/engb