PHCo Receives Top 30 Editor’s Choice Award for Second Consecutive Year
Process Heating Company's Lo-Density® Rigid Tubular Drywell Tank Heater for asphalt and emulsion distributor trucks was recently selected by Asphalt Contractor magazine as a 2016 Top 30 Editor's Choice Award recipient. In making its selection of award recipients, the publication's editorial staff looked at a set of criteria that included the characteristics of durability, increased productivity, innovation and ease of use. The chosen products all are designed to help contractors get the job done faster, better, easier, safer and more profitably. PHCo's electric distributor truck heater was chosen as one of the industry's preferred products based on the publication's criteria, as well as feedback from asphalt construction equipment owners and end users.
Electric heaters provide a more efficient and safe form of heat for asphalt and emulsion distributor truck tanks than fossil-fuel-fired systems. With an electric heater bringing the asphalt to the correct temperature, operators can:
- Raise productivity – plug it in to keep emulsions and asphalt at the optimal temperature overnight. Crews arrive in the morning, and off they go.
- Increase safety – no concerns with the lighting of diesel or LPG burners.
- Improve asphalt/emulsion quality – low-watt density heaters dissipate controlled heat on the sheath to deliver even distribution with no coking or damage – or ever having to drain and clean the tank and flue.
- Reduce operating costs – electric heat requires significantly less energy to maintain asphalt/emulsion temperatures, versus LPG or diesel burners that must continually raise the material to the correct temperature.
- Enhance sustainability – no flues, no stacks, no emissions.
This is the third year Asphalt Contractor's editorial staff has chosen its Top 30 products. Additional information on 2016 award recipients can be found in the May 2016 issue of Asphalt Contractor and online at ForConstructionPros.com.