Partnership agreement joins companies’ technology, distribution and marketing efforts to deliver condensing boiler technology to the North American market

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (Dec. 5, 2012) – Superior Boiler, and ICI Caldaie, S.p.A., announced today that they have established a strategic business partnership that allows SBW to utilize ICI’s high-efficiency condensing boiler technology. As part of the agreement, SBW will provide certain value-added components to the base boilers at its facility to complete the final packaged boiler product. SBW’s facility also will conduct final acceptance testing.

Through its distribution network, SBW will exclusively sell the ICI manufactured boilers throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States as part of its Creek condensing boiler product line in sizes from 300,000 to 6,000,000 Btu/h.

“We are extremely excited to announce this agreement and align ourselves with ICI Caldaie, which has a very long history of manufacturing high-quality, reliable boilers to the European marketplace and other markets throughout the world,” said Doug Wright, SBW’s president and chief executive officer. “ICI Caldaie and SBW share the same quality-driven values. By coupling their technology with our value-added engineering expertise, we will offer an exceptional product and create better overall value for our customers. We look forward to offering these high-efficiency condensing boilers as part of the total SBW portfolio.”

“Today it’s a great day for ICI! We are officially entering the North American market,” said Emanuela Lucchini, president of ICI. “ICI, which was founded by my father over 50 years ago, has developed a very strong international presence in the last few years. Russia, Spain, the UK and China are some great examples of our success. We have always been aware of the great potential and complexity of the North American market. We believe that joining forces with Superior Boiler is the right move towards bringing the state-of-the-art high-efficiency condensing boiler technology to the increasingly energy-conscious consumers in North America.”

Superior Boiler, which manufactures an array of boiler systems, is a leader in clean-air emissions technology for the boiler equipment industry. ICI Caldaie has more than 50 years of experience and is a recognized leader in providing boiler systems throughout Europe and other markets. The company is Europe’s leader in highly engineered, condensing boiler systems and other boiler-related equipment.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (January 31, 2011) – Superior Boiler, today announced it is offering a full line of new scotch marine firebox boilers under the name of Arrowhead. This line of boilers will further complement Superior’s other boiler room-related product offerings. The Arrowhead boilers being offered include standard sizes from 10 to 100 horsepower at 150 psig operating pressure and will be no more than 34 inches wide.

In making the announcement, Doug Wright, Superior’s president & chief executive officer, said, “Superior Boiler is extremely pleased and excited to announce the Arrowhead line of boilers to the marketplace. The Arrowhead product line targets a unique market for which many customers have asked us to provide boilers. This is another example of how SBW is committed to delivering exceptional value to our customers through extensive engineering and design. This product line will be produced with the same high-quality standards all of our products are, and will further complement our other boiler room products.”

“Arrowhead has already been well received and is in high demand in certain markets.  We are excited about the prospects for this offering going forward,” said Gabriel Dauphin, Superior’s national sales manager. “We are extremely pleased at how efficient and well engineered the product is for the applications in which it will be used.”

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (Jan. 3, 2011) – Superior Boiler, announced today that it has received certification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and its affiliate Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) on two of its packaged boiler systems. UL and ULC are independent safety certification organizations that test products and write standards for industry safety.

Superior earned certification for its:

• Low-emission 4-Pass Wetback Mohican series boilers in standard sizes from 100-800 horsepower, steam and hot water, and high- and low-pressure models, using Power Flame C&C Max burners firing gas only, gas and oil, or oil only.
• 2-Pass Dryback Apache series boilers in standard sizes from 80-200 horsepower, steam and hot water, and high- and low-pressure models, using Webster Engineering JB series burners firing gas only, gas and oil, or oil only.

Superior offers its 4-Pass Wetback Mohican series boilers in standard sizes from 70-1500 horsepower and its 2-Pass Dryback Apache series boilers in standard sizes from 40-2200 horsepower and its, using various burner manufacturers.

In making the certification announcement, Doug Wright, Superior’s president and chief executive officer, said, “By meeting the stringent requirements of the UL, CUL and Canadian Standards Association, we are able to provide our customers with high-quality, low-maintenance and fuel-efficient boiler systems that will more than meet their needs. The certification also will open additional markets, allowing us to bring these and other Superior products to more users.”