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| 1974 | Heat Trace is founded by Neil Malone |
| Heat Trace celebrated its 35th Anniversary in May 2009 and remains under the same ownership as from day one, retaining the same philosophy ……… inspiring safety, efficiency, performance and life. | |
| 1978 | Heat Trace produce the world’s first cut-to-length parallel tracer |
| Heat Trace’s patented Heat Tracer cable was introduced into the market as the first cut-to-length tracer in 1978. The Heat Tracer remains to this day the most thermally efficient parallel resistance heating cable. | |
| 1982 | Heat Trace introduce ‘Longline’, a series tracer for long pipelines |
| ‘Longline’ is launched for buried pipelines in New Zealand. Almost 3 decades later, after millions of metres, Heat Trace has never experienced a product failure. ‘Longline’, now re-invented, is the lowest cost solution for long pipeline tracing. | |
| 1986 | Heat Trace develops self-regulating controllers |
| Heat Trace patented PowerMatch in 1986, to convert constant power heaters into self-regulating. The PowerMatch’s air sensing principle remains as the heart of PowewMatch Micro+, launched in 2009, 25 years on, suitable for all generic heater types. | |
| 1996 | Heat Trace Limited launched the world’s highest temperature parallel resistance cut-to-length constant power heating cable |
| Heat Trace’s patented AHT mineral insulated metal-sheathed heater that can withstand 425°C continuously and has power outputs to 200W/m. Over a decade later it still remains the world’s highest temperature parallel resistance constant power heat tracer. | |
| 2000 | Heat Trace become the first UK manufacturer of Self-regulating heating cables |
| After partnering for a number of years with LG Cable, Korea, Heat Trace switches the manufacture of semi-conductive self-regulating heating cables to the United Kingdom. | |
| 2003 | Heat Trace Limited introduces the world’s highest temperature self-regulating heat tracer |
| Heat Trace’s FSU Freezstop Ultimo has a continuous withstand temperature of 250°C un-energised, may be continuously energised at 200°C and has outputs up to 90W/m – and this remains to this day a higher capability than any other competitor worldwide. | |
| 2004 | Heat Trace can resurrect failed self-regulating tracers (usually those of competitors!) |
| Heat Trace patents a method of resurrecting failed self-regulating cables in-situ, with access only required at the cable ends. | |
| 2005 | Heat Trace makes series resistance self-regulating heat tracers |
| Heat Trace patents series resistance self-regulating heating cables for various applications. Watch this space for future new products, such as LadderMat | |
| 2007 | Self-Regulating heaters without high in-rush currents |
| Heat Trace patent Soft-Start DiscTM, a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) device, which reduces in-rush current of self-regulating heaters on start-up to levels by up to 60%, thereby improving safety by enabling type B circuit breakers to be used. Soft-Start DiscTM increases product life by up to 300%, improving energy efficiency, and reducing power cable and switchgear sizes. | |
| 2009 | Worlds first 300 degrees C self-regulating tracer |
| Heat Trace launch AFS FailSafe, breaking the temperature withstand record held by Heat Trace’s own Freezstop Ultimo. AFS FailSafe withstands 250 / 300°C energised / unenergised. The patented continuously extruded aluminium jacket and mineral insulation permits temperatures beyond the limits of polymeric materials. Heat Trace's whole range of self-regulating heating cables are inherently temperature-safe. | |
| 2009 | Heat Trace continues to spend 10-15% of its revenue in Research & Development |
| Heat Trace Limited has a higher R & D spend than its competitors. It currently has over 20 Patent applications under review. | |
| Heat Trace continues …………….. | |
SETTING THE STANDARDS – LEADING THE WAY |
