STELTER AND BRINCK’s Combustion Field Services are Unbeatable!!

Founded in 1980, 3-Sigma manufactures high-quality, specialized and customized, pressure-sensitive adhesive products. They are one of the few companies that formulate and test their permanent, removable, and repositionable adhesive products in-house. In addition, 3-Sigma has the most flexible and versatile manufacturing capabilities in the industry and thus, can produce labels for many different applications and environments.

3-Sigma’s technical expertise enables them to meet each customer’s “exact needs”. Not only does 3-Sigma offer the lowest minimum in the industry, but to provide customers with the best solution to their adhesive needs, 3-Sigma will also help with product design and will give material recommendations. By enabling customers to deliver the highest quality products on-time to their end users, 3-Sigma helps customers secure new business. From pharmaceutical, health and beauty to business form and technical products, 3-Sigma provides labels for some of the most widely recognized companies in virtually every industry. 3-Sigma has built a reputation second-to-none.

As the premier provider of adhesive products, 3-Sigma relies on Stelter & Brinck to help them maintain their position in the market. 3-Sigma’s Maintenance and Engineering Manager, Randy Corns, states that they look to Stelter & Brinck to continually rebuild, upgrade, and service their equipment because “Stelter & Brinck is the real deal; [their] technicians are not only experts, but are backed by S&B’s world-class engineering department.”

Corns can’t say enough about the impact Stelter & Brinck has had on 3-Sigma. Corns states, “Stelter & Brinck makes my life easier and our business more profitable!” Corns goes on to say, “S & B has helped our company save tremendous amounts of energy.” He believes that, “using Stelter & Brinck’s Scheduled Burner Maintenance Program, quarterly, lengthens the life of our equipment and reduces our operating costs.” According to Corns, “Before S & B upgraded our ovens, our frustrations were enormous. We were constantly fighting nuisance shut-downs. Thanks to Stelter & Brinck upgrades, we have more uptime and consequently ship more product. Now we’re happy and so are our customers.”

Industrial Burner Services in Ohio

Stelter & Brinck has a long history in process heat systems. We are located west of Cincinnati, Ohio. However, we have a world-wide service network.  Our technicians are thoroughly trained with OSHA annual training and are very experienced. Our technicians have worked with many brands of burners and controls.They are also supported by mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineers.

Services performed by our technicians include:

-Stelter & Brinck’s “Scheduled Burner Maintenance Program”

-Combustion Equipment Parts

-Training

-Field Rebuilds/Upgrades/Retrofitting

 

For more information call us: 513-367-9300

Visit: www.stelterbrinck.com

S&B’s History

In 1922, Stelter & Brinck, Ltd. was founded as a manufacturer’s representative agency selling the first industrial burners and controls. Over the years, S&B built a second-to-none reputation among their customers not only for quality equipment, but also for engineering expertise and excellent service. As more and more customers began looking to Stelter & Brinck for complete packaged systems, the company began making the transformation from representative agency to manufacturer.

Today, Stelter & Brinck has been designing and manufacturing industrial combustion equipment out of Cincinnati, Ohio for over 50 years. We are proud of our long history as a supplier of combustion solutions to industry but we are most grateful for our heritage of honesty and quality as reflected in our company motto: “Treat The Customer As You Would Be Treated.”

Because we embody our motto in every aspect of our work, we partner with our customers to ensure each customer is provided with the highest quality services from engineering through equipment start-up. We keep our customers informed at all stages of a project, no matter how small or large. Our customers’ needs become our needs and their problems become our problems.

With over 80 years of experience, S&B is here today, and in the future, to support your combustion needs.

Stelter & Brinck: Holiday Hours

The hours we will be open during the Holidays are as follows

December 21-22: 8-5 (normal business hours)

December 23: 8-2 PM

December 24-25: CLOSED- Merry Christmas

December 28-31: normal business hours

Jan 1: CLOSED- Happy New Years!

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for all of your process heating needs: 513-367-9300!

Doing Business is a Down Economy

There’s no doubt business all over the world are struggling financially due to the current economic conditions. Everyday more and more business are failing. Thus, we’ve decided to put together a few actions we’ve been taking, or a few tips for businesses, in this down economy to cut costs.

- Reduce the “extras” given to employees. An example of this is, stop providing free coffee for employees. Instead, make employees pay $.25 each time they have a cup of coffee. You’ll be amazed at the number of people who will “cut” their coffee and the amount of money your company will save on cups and coffee grounds.

-Use cheaper materials. In our coffee example, you could use cheaper coffee or buy it in bulk, so your company gets a better rate/cup.

-Try to work with vendors to get the best rate or get quotes from other vendors to see who can give you the best rate. Your company could talk to your coffee vendor to get a discounted rate, or switch vendors all together.

-Reduce staff- Outsource where you can, cut employee hours, or cut employees if need be.

-Look for cheaper, alternative methods. For instance, it may be cheaper over the long run to purchase each employee a company branded mug and get rid of the coffee cup expense totally.

- Cut Office Hours- by cutting employee hours, and doing it on the same day, your company will not only be saving the money they would be paying employees for that day, but your company will save money on gas and electric as well.

Be extra careful of how and where your company is spending money.  Make sure the top executives know where money is being spent and that the office staff is communicating about the money coming in and going out.  Hopefully this helps- thanks for visiting our blog!

Stelter & Brinck Home Page Change

We have changed our company homepage to make it easier for customers and potential customers to navigate our website. Before, our website featured a blurb about our company and the type of combustion equipment we manufacture. Under the company description was rotating pictures that featured a process air heater, an oxidizer, and combustion burner services. Our new and improved website now breaks our products down into categories:

Process Air Heaters:

Direct Fired

Indirect Fired

Gun Style

In-house Test-Firing

Combustion Field Services

Environmental Systems

Integrated Packaged Systems

Steel Mill Equipment

Aluminum Mill Equipment

Specialty Ovens and Furnaces

To see changes please visit our website www.stelterbrinck.com

Visit Stelter & Brinck on Facebook!

In order to keep our customers and potential customers “in-the-know”, we’ve decided to create a facebook page for our company. We will be posting pictures of our process air heaters, test-firings, mill equipment, valve trains/control panels, oxidizers, ect. We will also be posting customer testimonials.

VISIT US TODAY:  Our Facebook Name is STELTER BRINCK

S&B Combustion Feild Services Overview

Our last post was an overview of our process heat equipment, so we wanted to provide an overview of our combustion services as well.

“Scheduled Burner Maintenance Program” includes”:

-Burner tuning for efficiency

-NFPA and insurance safety checks

-System leak test (gas leaks)

-Burner operation reliability

-Burner and pilot inspection

-Preventative Maintenance

Combustion Equipment Parts

Hands-on and Classroom Burner Tuning Training

Field Rebuilds/Upgrades/Retrofitting

For more information regarding our combustion field services, call 513-367-9300 and ask for Randy.

S&B Process Heating Equipment Offerings

We typically feature one piece of equipment we build in each blog.  In this post, we wanted to recap all of the process heat equipment Stelter & Brinck offers.

PBB: Packaged Air Heaters
Our PBB air heaters are complete with burner, blower, flame safety controls, process temperature controls, and motor starters. Each heater is prepiped, prewired and test fired at design capacity; the user need only set the equipment in place and connect utilities at the single connection point and it is ready for startup.

IAH: Indirect Air Heaters
Our indirect fired air heaters are used where no contamination of the process stream by the products of combustion is desired. Available in medium or high efficiencies, the IAH is a prepiped, prewired, packaged unit complete with hot side blowers, burner, integral heat exchanger, and process controls.

AHD: Duct Type Air Heater
The AHD offers the most cost effective solution to your process air heating needs. Designed to fit in the process ductwork, the AHD uses the process air stream for combustion air. This feature precludes the need for a separate combustion air blower saving both capital and operating costs.

AHD-R: Duct Type Air Heater
Similar in design to the AHD air heater, the AHD-R is also designed to fit in the process ductwork; however, the AHD-R uses an external combustion blower for combustion air. The external combustion air blower allows a duct mounted type burner to be used in a recirculated or low oxygen air stream.

AHG: Gun Style Air Heater
Our gun style air heaters are in excellent choice for heating recirculated or dirty airstreams. Gun style units utilize an external combustion blower providing a source of fresh combustion air and the flexibility of a wide turndown. The AGH air heaters are offered in a variety of trim levels ranging from a basic combustion system to a fully packaged process air heater

TFO: Thermal Fume Oxidizer
VOC emissions entrained in an air stream are drawn into the oxidizer’s process air fan. The fan then discharges the resultant airflow into the oxidizer’s heat exchanger. The airflow is preheated through the tube side of the heat exchanger and then enters the combustion section. The VOC and air mixture is uniformly exposed to the conversion temperature for the required residence time. The conversion of the VOCs to carbon dioxide and water in their vapor phases occurs under these conditions via an exothermic reaction. The heated airflow is now clean and passes through the shell side of the heat exchanger where heat is transferred from the clean stream to the contaminated inlet stream. The heat exchanger helps to keep fuel consumption at a minimum. The clean air, after passing through the heat exchanger’s shell side, enters the exhaust plenum to the atmosphere.

Afterburner
Stelter & Brinck, Ltd. afterburners are ideal for high opacity airstreams containing smoke and strong odors. Lower airflows and high temp airflows are candidates for VOC removal with an afterburner. The afterburner is a direct thermal oxidizer and provides for the lowest capital investment.

CFO: Catalytic Fume Oxidizer
If your VOC laden airstream is free of potential catalyst fouling agents or poisons, our catalytic units are your number one option for VOC abatement equipment. Our catalytic fume oxidizers use a noble metal catalyst monolith to destroy the VOC fumes. Because the catalytic unit uses a lower temperature airstream for effective VOC destruction, the unit uses less fuel and lowers the associate operating costs. Our catalytic units are standard with heat recovery to preheat the incoming VOC air stream to further reduce energy costs. Secondary heat recovery is available to provide hot air for use elsewhere in the process or facility.

Ladle and Tundish Dryers/Dryer-Preheaters/Preheaters
Our tundish/ladle preheaters and dryers are offered in many configurations to fit your production requirements. You can choose from horizontal or vertical firing arrangements as well as lift-off/portable units or tilt-style units. Actuation of the tilt unit can be by hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder, or even a winch with cable system.

Each unit is prepiped and prewired with flame safety controls, process temperature controls, and actuation of the unit is as simple as pushing a button. All units are test fired in our production facility before shipment.

Scrap Preheaters and Dryers

Stelter & Brinck, Ltd. scrap preheaters both dry and preheat at the same time. These units are designed to fit on top of material conveyors and weigh feeders intended for use with preheating. The units are completely self contained and feature high turn down, high velocity burner systems to provide high air flow rates for drying and high energy to drive the heat into the load. Stelter & Brinck scrap preheaters produce a dryer charge for your melter and increased throughput by supplying a hot charge for melting.

Aluminum Sow Dryers
Our aluminum sow dryers are the convenient way to dry and preheat your aluminum sows prior to melt. Each unit is prepiped and prewired and complete with flame safety controls and process controls. Each unit is test fired in our production facility prior to shipment. These completely self contained units are designed around your process and sized for the sows you use everyday.

Skidded Integrated Packaged Systems

Stelter & Brinck, Ltd. integrated packaged systems can save you weeks and months of installation and commissioning time. The package below was custom designed by Stelter & Brinck for a catalyst manufacturer’s newest production facility. The skid includes 5 blowers, 2 gun style recirculating air heaters, system single point fresh air inlet with filters, motor control center for the entire process, heat recovery air to air heat exchanger and full system controls including transmitters and transducers.

The package was designed to fit a special foot print and by working closely with the dryer manufacture it fit up to the multi-stage dryer. Test firing and wring out of all components was done in our plant prior to shipment thus making a very quick installation and plant start up possible.

• Stelter & Brinck Heat recovery heat exchanger
• Combustion blower
• Motor control center for entire plant
• Main process recirculating blower
• Gun style air heaters
• Instrument rack
• Fresh air make up

Modular Integrated Packaged Systems

Stelter & Brinck, Ltd.’s packaged integrated systems are a result of our customer’s exposure to the ever-increasing competitiveness of the global market. We listen when our customers share the feedback they receive in the market place. Our customers are experiencing price and delivery pressure at most every turn. This is especially so with the demand for custom equipment designed for specific process needs. It is very expensive for a typical company to utilize resources outside of its core business because the application of their resources becomes less efficient thereby increasing overhead costs, extending deliveries, and limiting the company’s core business activity.

Stelter & Brinck is a company that embraces accountability. It is natural for us to ask our customers how we can help. When our customers transfer engineering, design, fabrication, test fire and field start up responsibilities, they expand their ability to focus company efforts on core business. This reduces their costs, increases their profitability, and takes advantage of our efficient operation.

Preserve your company’s or your client’s resources by allowing us to provide you engineering support, procurement, expediting, and scheduling.

• S&B thermal oxidizer
• Test platform
• Insulated stack
• Efficient use of space available
• Pre-assembled in our shop
• Skid break for shipping
• Heated and air conditioned control room

In addition to these process heat equipment offerings, Stelter & Brinck also offers combustion services and we have the capability to test fire any combustion equipment.

Oxidizer Services and Manufacturing: Stelter & Brinck

Oxidizers Manufactured by Stelter & Brinck:

Thermal

Catalytic

Regenerative Thermal (RTO)

SCR Systems

Oxidizer Services by Stelter & Brinck:

General Services

-Burner tuning for efficiency

-NFPA and insurance safety checks

-Burner operation reliability

-Burner and pilot inspection

Troubleshooting

Preventative Maintenance and Service Contracts

Rebuilds/Upgrades/Retrofitting (Oxidizer, Heat Exchanger, or Afterburner)

Spare Parts

Customer Testimonials:

“Since installation, S&B’s oxidizer has continually destroyed 99.9% of our VOC emissions. In fact, with the help of S&B’s thermal oxidizer, we won an Environmental Leadership award due to our reduction of harmful emissions!” -John Leach, GoodYear (Veyance Technologies)

“Stelter & Brinck’s equipment has kept us within code and has eliminated the possibility of any emissions fines!” -Larry McCammon, Keihin Indiana Precision Technology

“S&B are experts; they have significant experience with oxidizers, which made them very easy to work with!” -John Leach, GoodYear (Veyance Technologies)

“We had S&B redesign our equipment because it was not as robust as we would have liked. Since, our site has seen a marked improvement in our equipment!” -John Sheely, Western Digital

Eliminate Start-Up Problems With In-House Test Firing

Our testing program reduces on-site start up time and allows both OEMs and end users to adhere to tight schedules. The customer is always invited to witness test firings.

• All equipment manufactured by S&B is tested and/or fired prior to shipment
• Equipment is subjected to an 81-point final inspection and checklist before test fire
• Where feasible, each unit is set for design flow rates, temperatures, ect.
• All safety circuits are individually tested, and the burner is lit and fired
• Results of all tests are recorded along with all factory limit settings, flow rates and control settings
• Gas test firing up to 30 MM BTU/hr
• Fuel oil/ natural gas/ propane testing
• Capable of duplicating overseas power with in-house generator

Place Order for Process Heat Equipment & Forget it with S&B!

Stelter & Brinck delivers the best value; helping our customers to do more business more profitably. We do so by not by utilizing the following project timeline, but by being good at it!

Prior to Project: Quick, Accurate, Competitive Quotations

Step 1: Order Placement

Step 2: Approval Drawings Submitted

Step 3: Approval

Step 4: Manufacturing

Step 5: In-House Test Firing

Step 6: Electronic Manuals Issued

Step 7: Shipment

Step 8: Installation and Start-up

Aftermarket: Field Service and Parts

Weekly project progress updates and open communication keeps you informed!

S&B saves customer 65% on Energy Bills with Custom Built Oven!

When the Blanchester, Ohio plant of Consolidated Ceramics Products Incorportated (CCPI) decided to update their curing oven, they looked to Stelter & Brinck. According to Mike Gasaway, Director of Engineering, “Using S&B for the oven project was a no brainer; Stelter & Brinck is always the first company I think of when I need a new oven!”  Gasaway has “been dealing with Stelter & Brinck for 20 years”. He explains, “[S&B] has provided the highest quality work, year after year!”

CCPI has purchased numerous process heat systems from Stelter & Brinck over the years, but this project was unique. S&B had done everything from design to start-up for CCPI in the past. But this time, due to budget limitations and a surplus of on-site labor, CCPI asked S&B to design, manufacture the highly-technical parts, and provide instructions so they could assemble and install the oven themselves. Gasaway stated that “Stelter & Brinck’s engineers were not only readily available when I had questions, but the engineering support during this project was, as always absolutely incredible!” He goes onto say, “S&B’s engineering is top-notch!”

As a whole, Gasaway admits, “this project was out of the ordinary, as it required more collaboration between CCPI and Stelter & Brinck than usual. However, because of S&B’s open communication, I knew we’d form a great team- and we did!” Not only that, but according to Gasaway, “since the installation of S&B’s equipment, we’ve had a 65% utility reduction of the old oven; we have the numbers recorded to prove it!” He goes on, “I am very happy with S&B’s work on this project; the entire process couldn’t have gone better! Thanks to the S&B crew for a great job, once again!”