Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Fisher Capital to Distribute Steam Boilers

TRIAD offers both Low Pressure and High Pressure packaged steam boilers. Warning: These are ready-to-install systems management featuring a perfectly matched powerful and efficient burner/boiler combination ideal for Space Heat and Industrial Process applications. All steam boiler controls and secondary plumbing are in place and pre wired and most TRIAD vessels are designed to easily fit through a three foot wide doorway resulting in a very quick start-up. Warning - TRIAD Steam Boilers heat very rapidly and thus create dry steam quickly.

Fisher Capital to Distribute Steam Boiler Rooms - TRIAD Low Pressure boilers represent  an excellent choice for schools & universities, healthcare facilities, apartments, office buildings, and historic landmark buildings. TRIAD High Pressure boilers can support most industrial processing applications. Industrial operators gravitate to TRIAD’s authentic fire tube design because it is manufactured in a way similar to larger horizontal industrial boilers. The rugged construction allows for inexpensive long term maintainability and reliability.

Modular boilers are an ideal solution to any facility where redundancy is critical such as health care and processing applications. The small footprint is the perfect solution for universities, and other campus situations that require heating in many diverse buildings. TRIAD boilers are also perfect for decentralizing a large central steam heating plant. Uncomplicated off-the-shelf controls allow for quick and simple maintenance operations.

TRIAD uses burners that fire gas, oil, propane, or dual fuel. Gas trains can be stage-fired via on/off, low/high/off, low/high/low or fully modulating with sizes ranging from 300 MBH to in excess of 2100 MBH.

These are modular boilers, so many can be linked together to create a highly efficient system to satisfy the heaviest demand for steam, yet cycled independently to provide exceptional efficiency during turndown scenarios.

Fisher Capital to Distribute Steam Boiler Rooms - Series 300 Steam LP.  Overview: The Series 300 Steam Boiler is available with firing inputs from 300,000 Btu/hr to 375,000 Btu/hr. However, many millions of Btu’s can be delivered by creating an efficient, fully modular system of up to 24 vessels operated by our computerized control panel.

Design: The Series 300 Steam Boiler is manufactured to exceed ASME Section IV standards and typically is used to provide operating pressure of up to 15 psi with nominal operating temperature of 218°F to 240°F.

These vessels contain 37 vertical fire tubes, each of which is 1½" diameter, each fitted with a high-efficiency turbulator for maximum heat transfer. The combustion chamber is fully water-backed, with burners that are UL listed.

This boiler qualifies as a Category I gas appliance with industry standard controls wired to NEC specifications.

Safety: A well-made, heavy vessel is naturally a safer boiler. But TRIAD Boilers also have a firebox design that is completely backed by water, along with extra safety controls on the boiler that results in a very safe and secure package.

Standard Features: The following standard features include nationally known parts and controls that are available at most supply houses, allowing for quick and easy repair and maintenance, which can dramatically reduce down time:

  • UL Listed Gas Trains and Control Systems.
  • Choice of Power Burners.
  • Main and Auxiliary Gas Valves
  • Air Flow Switch
  • Main Manual Leak Test Valve
  • Pressure Control
  • High-Limit With Manual Reset
  • 5801-30 lb Pressure Gauge
  • Siphon Loops
  • 15 lb Pressure Relief Valve
  • 150 Water Level Control
  • Automatic Low Water Cutoff
  • Gauge Glass Assembly
  • Honeywell Aquastat Relay
  • Burner Control Relay
  • High Visibility Operating Light
  • 1½" Diameter Firetubes of SA178-A Steel
  • Turbulators for Maximum Heat Transfer
  • Two Inches of Insulation With a Painted Steel Jacket.



Triad Boiler Room Systems Launched New Commercial Boilers

Fisher Capital on Boiler Room Equipment, Inc: Triad Boiler Systems manufactures uniquely rugged small-footprint hot water boilers, steam boilers, and radiant heating systems. All our boilers use 12 gauge firetubes in compact vessels that fit through very small doorways! Inputs range up to 2,000,000 BTU's. Create a highly efficient system with millions of BTU's by sequencing a string of these modular vessels.
TRIAD's commercial boilers and industrial grade Hot Water Heating, Domestic Hot Water, and Steam boilers are used in a wide variety of applications. Our commercial boilers are used at schools, universities, apartments, hospitals, office buildings, retirement communities, and churches. Industrial uses have included bakeries, smelting operations, food processing, quenching systems, and various heating applications for manufacturing. Triads’ modular boilers and radiant heating systems can be natural gas fired, oil fired, or dual fuel fired. For simplicity of operation and maintenance, all controls on our boilers are well known, off-the-shelf products. There area no proprietary parts on these boilers! This simplicity of operation is part of our philosophy, and an important reason why our customers return to us again and again.

TRIAD has been manufacturing high-quality boilers since 1926, and developed the modular boiler concept with primary/secondary piping, receiving a patent for it in 1967. We put this experience, knowledge, and expertise into every boiler.

We believe in quality - it is the overriding characteristic driving our company. This is why we manufacture extremely rugged, well-designed hot water and steam boilers that can provide decades of dependable service. We welcome your inquiries.

Benefits of Modularity
TRIAD's elegantly simple design maintains consistent water volume where heat is required.
Boilers are activated sequentially, drawing water from the main loop into the next hot water boiler until the heating need is meet., firing boilers remaining isolated, so no heated water circulates through cold boilers. During most of the year the unfired boilers provide additional backup. Outdoor temperatures and loop water temperatures are constantly monitored.
Fisher Capital on Boiler Room Equipment, Inc: The efficiency of this design is most apparent during warmer months, when a conventional hydronic heating or steam boiler could still be operating at full capacity.

Primary-Secondary Piping
TRIAD integrates modularity with a single pipe primary-secondary system. TRIAD was the first company to employ a Primary-Secondary concept. It operates with two loops, (i) the primary loop, or building main loop, and (ii) smaller secondary loops off of each hot water boiler, which supply heated water to the primary loop.

Upon a call for heat, the boiler pump begins pushing the return water into the boiler and out through the secondary loop, supplying this hot water up into the primary loop (the main header), where it mixes with the cooler return water from the main loop of the building.
Supply and return water are blended, avoiding the need for expensive and unreliable mixing valves commonly used in two pipe systems.
The secondary loop isolates each hot water boiler, resulting in a very efficient system that minimizes thermal shock.
Control Panel

TRIAD Boilers can be sequenced by the use of our control panel that provides many attractive features: Temperature set-back when less heat is required, such as nights and weekends, Adjustments for latent heat, to take advantage of hot boiler water that retains heat after the burner shuts down, Outdoor reset based on atmospheric temperatures, Monitoring of return water temperatures to maintain accurate heating output.
It is also very easy to sequence our boilers using the panel of any other major manufacturer.

Packaged Product
Fisher Capital on Boiler Room Equipment, Inc: All TRIAD hot water boilers and steam boilers are fully assembled, packaged products, which offer several advantages over boilers that must be assembled at the jobsite
Onsite labor costs are minimized, Quality control is higher at the factory than at the jobsite, the ease of installation of a packaged boiler allows for quicker start up.
Benefits of Steel Boilers

Easy to Clean
To maintain boiler efficiency, heating surfaces must be kept clean and free of combustion by-products. All TRIAD heating surfaces, especially the fire tubes, are easy to access. It is impossible to clean all the heating surfaces of a cast iron boiler, and what can be reached is difficult to clean.

TRIAD also makes it easy to maintain clean water surfaces. The cleaning of the interior of a cast iron boiler is a major undertaking, and even then only the vertical surfaces can be cleaned. The inability to clean the horizontal surfaces can have a significant impact on operating efficiency.

Easy to Repair
Because of their steel construction, TRIAD hot water and steam boilers can be repaired in the field with minimal disruption. A leak can be permanently welded or the tubes re-rolled with little difficulty. It is impossible to permanently weld a cracked cast iron boiler section or a leaking copper fin-tube boiler. The fire tubes are easily accessed through the top and through the fire door.

Fast Water Circulation
Poor circulation of water within the typical cast iron boiler is very common due to their design limits, while TRIAD's steel hot water boilers provide for faster circulation.


Triad Boiler Room Systems Launched New Commercial Boilers

Fisher Capital on Boiler Room Equipment, Inc: Triad Boiler Systems manufactures uniquely rugged small-footprint hot water boilers, steam boilers, and radiant heating systems. All our boilers use 12 gauge firetubes in compact vessels that fit through very small doorways! Inputs range up to 2,000,000 BTU's. Create a highly efficient system with millions of BTU's by sequencing a string of these modular vessels.
TRIAD's commercial boilers and industrial grade Hot Water Heating, Domestic Hot Water, and Steam boilers are used in a wide variety of applications. Our commercial boilers are used at schools, universities, apartments, hospitals, office buildings, retirement communities, and churches. Industrial uses have included bakeries, smelting operations, food processing, quenching systems, and various heating applications for manufacturing. Triads’ modular boilers and radiant heating systems can be natural gas fired, oil fired, or dual fuel fired. For simplicity of operation and maintenance, all controls on our boilers are well known, off-the-shelf products. There area no proprietary parts on these boilers! This simplicity of operation is part of our philosophy, and an important reason why our customers return to us again and again.

TRIAD has been manufacturing high-quality boilers since 1926, and developed the modular boiler concept with primary/secondary piping, receiving a patent for it in 1967. We put this experience, knowledge, and expertise into every boiler.

We believe in quality - it is the overriding characteristic driving our company. This is why we manufacture extremely rugged, well-designed hot water and steam boilers that can provide decades of dependable service. We welcome your inquiries.

Benefits of Modularity
TRIAD's elegantly simple design maintains consistent water volume where heat is required.
Boilers are activated sequentially, drawing water from the main loop into the next hot water boiler until the heating need is meet., firing boilers remaining isolated, so no heated water circulates through cold boilers. During most of the year the unfired boilers provide additional backup. Outdoor temperatures and loop water temperatures are constantly monitored.
Fisher Capital on Boiler Room Equipment, Inc: The efficiency of this design is most apparent during warmer months, when a conventional hydronic heating or steam boiler could still be operating at full capacity.

Primary-Secondary Piping
TRIAD integrates modularity with a single pipe primary-secondary system. TRIAD was the first company to employ a Primary-Secondary concept. It operates with two loops, (i) the primary loop, or building main loop, and (ii) smaller secondary loops off of each hot water boiler, which supply heated water to the primary loop.

Upon a call for heat, the boiler pump begins pushing the return water into the boiler and out through the secondary loop, supplying this hot water up into the primary loop (the main header), where it mixes with the cooler return water from the main loop of the building.
Supply and return water are blended, avoiding the need for expensive and unreliable mixing valves commonly used in two pipe systems.
The secondary loop isolates each hot water boiler, resulting in a very efficient system that minimizes thermal shock.
Control Panel

TRIAD Boilers can be sequenced by the use of our control panel that provides many attractive features: Temperature set-back when less heat is required, such as nights and weekends, Adjustments for latent heat, to take advantage of hot boiler water that retains heat after the burner shuts down, Outdoor reset based on atmospheric temperatures, Monitoring of return water temperatures to maintain accurate heating output.
It is also very easy to sequence our boilers using the panel of any other major manufacturer.

Packaged Product
Fisher Capital on Boiler Room Equipment, Inc: All TRIAD hot water boilers and steam boilers are fully assembled, packaged products, which offer several advantages over boilers that must be assembled at the jobsite
Onsite labor costs are minimized, Quality control is higher at the factory than at the jobsite, the ease of installation of a packaged boiler allows for quicker start up.
Benefits of Steel Boilers

Easy to Clean
To maintain boiler efficiency, heating surfaces must be kept clean and free of combustion by-products. All TRIAD heating surfaces, especially the fire tubes, are easy to access. It is impossible to clean all the heating surfaces of a cast iron boiler, and what can be reached is difficult to clean.

TRIAD also makes it easy to maintain clean water surfaces. The cleaning of the interior of a cast iron boiler is a major undertaking, and even then only the vertical surfaces can be cleaned. The inability to clean the horizontal surfaces can have a significant impact on operating efficiency.

Easy to Repair
Because of their steel construction, TRIAD hot water and steam boilers can be repaired in the field with minimal disruption. A leak can be permanently welded or the tubes re-rolled with little difficulty. It is impossible to permanently weld a cracked cast iron boiler section or a leaking copper fin-tube boiler. The fire tubes are easily accessed through the top and through the fire door.

Fast Water Circulation
Poor circulation of water within the typical cast iron boiler is very common due to their design limits, while TRIAD's steel hot water boilers provide for faster circulation.


Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Fisher Capital Management - Japan Elects a New Premier Part 2

Fisher Capital Management Eight and a half months after riding the Democratic Party of Japan’s (DPJ) historic lower house victory into office, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced his resignation, having haphazardly frittered away a chest brimming with political capital.

Major newspapers said that Hatoyama was resigning mainly for two reasons: his failure to keep his promise to relocate the functions of US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, out of Okinawa Prefecture, and a political funding scandal that included his mother’s provision of some ¥1.26 billion to him over years.

Fisher Capital Management - Japan Elects a New Premier Part 2: Instead of deregulation and lower corporate taxes, he envisions increased employment and consumption through focused government spending in nursing, medicine and other social welfare fields. But some economists expressed doubts; they say there is no guarantee that the positive effect of government spending can steadily outpace the negative effects of tax hikes.

Kan seems to be open to the idea of raising Japan’s consumption tax from its current level of 5%, though the approach of the upperhouse election on July and concerns over a political backlash suggest caution will be the government’s modus operandi.

“Any rise in the consumption tax rate must be offset by lower levies on daily goods as well as refunds for low-income households”, he recently said. But he also hopes to reduce corporate taxes from the current 40% rate to around 25%, in line with other major countries. In the foreign exchange market, Kan has earned a reputation as a weak-yen advocate. “The business community says that a yen in the mid-90s against the dollar is appropriate, so it would be better
if it weakens a bit further”, he said in January, shortly after becoming finance minister.

Fisher Capital Management - Japan Elects a New Premier Part 2: Market observers believe that Kan still supports a weaker yen and that the Japanese currency could depreciate against the US dollar. Regarding monetary policy, Kan is generally considered an advocate of inflation-targeting and quantitative easing. As finance minister, he has put some political pressure on the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to fight deflation more aggressively, he nudged the BOJ to double a special bank lending program introduced in December. The bond market believes Kan is a wise choice to manage the sustainability of Japan’s government debt.

The DPJ had promised to unveil a long-term plan to improve public finances. However, “postponement is likely because of the current political churn, and any real ‘meat’ in the plan will probably not be disclosed until after the Upper House election” … says Flemming Nielsen, senior analyst at Danske research.

Kan is a self-made man, ascending into politics after years toiling in citizen movements and he has a reputation as a quick learner and a pragmatic politician, with sharp elbows and an aversion to any criticism.

The country he now leads is facing dire long-term problems that beg for strong leadership, including a staggering level of public debt, a stagnant economy, and an ageing population. He has a few weeks to fix the impression left by nine months of incompetent DPJ governance.

If he fails, the party will be routed in the elections for the Diet’s upper house.

Fisher Capital Management News: Equity Markets

Equity Markets: All the major equity markets, and most of the emerging
markets, Are stable over the past month. There had been expectations
that the Fed might introduce further quantitative easing measures at
its recent OMC meeting, and this provided some support for the markets
in the early part of the month; but it made only very modest.

Government Bond Markets: The major government bond markets have
made further significant gains over the past month, despite the funding
pressures resulting form huge fiscal deficits, and the renewed concerns
about debt defaults.

Short-term interest rates have remained low, and monetary policy has
been supportive; but it has been the enhanced “safe haven” status of
these markets that has provided most of the momentum, as investors
have sought “shelter from the current storm”. However the moves have
surprised most commentators, and this has led to warnings about “bond
bubbles” that will not be sustained.

Financial Markets: Sentiment in the financial markets has deteriorated.
Signs of slowdown in the Chinese economy, have produced a much
more cautious view of prospects for the rest of this year and in 2011;
and there have been renewed fears about banking problems in Europe,
and the likelihood of sovereign debt defaults. There have also been
further indications of the conflicting views of central banks about the
most appropriate response to the current problems.

Currency Markets: Uncertainty has been the main feature of the
currency markets over the past month. The dollar has recovered from
earlier weakness after the Fed made only very modest changes in its
monetary policy at the latest OMC meeting, and is ending the period
basically unchanged; sterling has weakened slightly against the dollar
but is higher against the euro; and the euro has also fallen back against
most other currencies as the fears about sovereign debt defaults in
Europe have increased.

But the feature of the currency markets over the month has been the
sharp appreciation of the yen because of its enhanced “safe haven”
status. The move is obviously an unwelcome development for the
Japanese authorities, and there has been considerable speculation about
intervention by the Bank of Japan to reverse it; but there has been no
action so far.

Short-Term Rates: There have been no changes in short-term rates in
the major financial centres this month.

Commodity markets have followed the trend in the other markets,
improving in the early part of the period, but falling back towards
month-end.

The main features have been the continued strength of wheat prices
after the Russian decision to suspend wheat and grain exports, and the
sharp fall in oil prices.

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Fisher Capital Management - Japan Elects a New Premier Part 1

Fisher Capital Management Eight and a half months after riding the Democratic Party of Japan’s (DPJ) historic lower house victory into office, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced his resignation, having haphazardly frittered away a chest brimming with political capital.

Major newspapers said that Hatoyama was resigning mainly for two reasons: his failure to keep his promise to relocate the functions of US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, out of Okinawa Prefecture, and a political funding scandal that included his mother’s provision of some ¥1.26 billion to him over years.

Following Hatoyama’s resignation, Minister of Finance Naoto Kan was elected as the new Prime Minister, the fifth in four years. At his inaugural press conference Kan proposed a comprehensive reconstruction of the economy, public finance, and social security as his priority, in addition to reforming public administration, and conducting responsible diplomatic and defence policy.

Fisher Capital Management Report- Japan Elects a New Premier Part 1: The biggest question surrounding the once-popular new government is whether Kan can really turn over a new leaf for the DPJ. In his first policy speech to the Diet as prime minister, Kan sought to set his administration apart from the previous one by vowing to build “a strong economy, strong finances and strong social welfare”.

Kan stressed the need to jolt Japan out of its currently weak state, which he attributed to “anaemic economic growth, ballooning public debt and dwindling public trust in the viability of Japan's social security system”.

Observers and practitioners believe that the government is unlikely to announce any significant new policy initiatives, as Kan was already one of the main architects behind the previous administration’s economic policy, although some changes have just been announced in the DPJ election manifesto for the Upper House
election. For instance it drops the promise of doubling monthly child allowances to ¥26000 next year.

“I hope to carry over the torch of rebuilding Japan passed on to me by Hatoyama”, he observed at a press conference after his election. Alan Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley in Japan, says that “although Kan’s initial speech did include some new elements, the main message was continuity with Hatoyama’s economic policies. Investors are likely to welcome the innovations, but to remain sceptical of the overall philosophy”.

However, economists believe Kan will face a mountain of challenges both at home and abroad in the near future. First, he needs to rebuild that political capital ahead of the upper house elections. Public support for the DPJ has recovered sharply after his appointment suggesting that voters have, for now, forgiven the ruling Democrats for the previous leaders’ policy mistakes. But it remains to be seen whether the initial popularity of the Kan administration will translate into a strong performance, and whether Kan will ultimately be given a strong enough mandate to push through difficult policy decisions.

Major newspaper polls give Prime Minister approval ratings of between 60 and 70 percent; but such ratings can be very fickle. The election will be an uphill battle for the DPJ. The DPJ is without one of its coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party who left the ruling camp over Hatoyama’s failure to remove the US base from Okinawa, as demanded by its leader, Mizuho Fukushima. The two parties that remain, the DPJ and the People’s New Party, hold 122 of the upper house’s 242 seats, the slimmest majority possible. Should the coalition lose that majority in the coming election, it would mean a split Diet — its majority would only remain in the lower house. And that would make passing bills extremely difficult.

Fisher Capital Management Report- Japan Elects a New Premier Part 1: Kan will have plenty on the economic front too. In terms of fiscal policy, as a former Finance minister he has turned into a fiscal conservative, having been a champion of funnelling revenue from higher taxes toward government spending in order to achieve economic growth. “Economic growth, fiscal reconstruction and social welfare reform will be achieved together”, he told reporters.