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The G.C. Broach Company has been engineering and manufacturing custom fired heaters, waste heat recovery units, waste heat boilers, heat recovery steam generators and other process heat equipment since 1960. Family owned and operated, The G.C. Broach Company prides itself on a long history of innovative design and construction of the finest process heating equipment available. The G.C. Broach Company is a unique, independently owned and financially strong organization of experienced professionals dedicated to the design and construction of the finest process heating equipment available to the power and process industries. With its own fabrication shop, G.C. Broach insists on putting integrity at the center of all their business decisions. The company is innovative, versatile and reliable, serving the process heat equipment industry worldwide. Established by Mr. George Clayton Broach in 1960, the company has operated on the premise that the commitment to the finest design and construction standards will produce a superior product that will perform well for years to come. The "Single Source Design" and manufacturing capabilities have produced a flawless history of over 1,283 Process Heaters, 210 Waste Heat Recovery Units, 145 Steam Generating Systems, numerous Air Preheat Systems, Revamps and Retrofits, and hundreds of control systems and fuel trains.

Established in 1912, Volcanic Heater, Inc. has been manufacturing industrial thermal fluid heater systems for over a century. Volcanic boasts three dedicated manufacturing facilities and a 24/7 service center to provide manufacturing, engineering, and service support for our customers.

Kentube was founded in the early 1960's by Ken Anderson. At that time, Kentube did finning for the refinery market using MIG type welding. Because of the high temperatures and rigorous service in the typical refinery, Mr. Anderson developed a method of attaching fins using high frequency, resistance welding. This is the same process as used in manufacturing welded boiler tubing (SA178A, for example.) Using this method of attachment with its inherent strong fin-to-tube bond resulted in a better, longer lasting product. In fact, the finned tubes we manufactured were known as "Kentubes", a term still heard today. In the mid-60's, Kentube branched off into fabricating heat exchangers, particularly in the refinery business. Also, using our code stamp (#4,072), we ventured into the utility business fabricating huge economizer sections through such companies as Riley Stoker, Combustion Engineering and the like. When the first oil crisis came in the mid-70's and fuel oil prices quadrupled, Kentube began designing and building packaged economizers for both the retrofit market and for the boiler manufacturers. Previously, the boiler OEM's designed and built their own. At the same time, Kentube was purchased by Tranter, then out of Michigan, who later was bought by Dover. At the end of 1985, Tranter sold its interest in Kentube and we were purchased by a holding company that eventually was known as Fintube Limited Partnership. In 1989, Kentube, then a single entity, reorganized into two separate divisions: Kentube Finned Products and Kentube Fabricated Products (later changed to Kentube Engineered Products). In January 2000, Fintube Limited Partnership was bought by Lone Star Technologies. Lone Star Technologies is also the parent company of Lone Star Steel, Bellville Tube and Fintube Technologies. Since our acquisition, we have accelerated our research and development in the heat transfer arena and nearly tripled in size our fabrication facilities. Today Kentube Engineered Products is still the industry leader in the ...