Laars is an American company with its manufacturing facilities located in the United States of America, and is headquartered in Rochester, NH, USA. Products made by Laars are manufactured in the United States using the finest raw materials and components from around the world to deliver the highest quality and value to its customers.
Laars has a rich history of product development within the heating industry, starting in 1948 when engineer Avy Miller formed Laars Engineering. Laars Engineering was dedicated to the concept of heating water quickly by passing water through finned copper tube heat exchangers. Miller realized that moving water at high velocity through "low-mass" heat exchangers such as finned copper tubing could heat water up to nine times faster than through cast iron vessels. Miller designed specialized manufacturing techniques to support this new concept, and the "low-mass" technology found a warm reception in the U.S. market.
First applied to the swimming pool heater market that emerged rapidly in California after WWII, the heat exchanger designs that Laars developed also proved to work well with space-heating boilers and hot water boilers. After all, if a Laars heat exchanger could work well with swimming pool water which uses chemicals and contains impurities, it would work even better with clean water and closed loop hydronic systems.
The Laars heat exchangers with their higher velocity water flow also solved another problem - that of scale build-up in the tubes. By controlling flow rates, lime and scale were prevented from forming on tube walls, thereby keeping the heat transfer process clean and efficient.
Laars- break-through designs continued over the years and the company grew.
Today, Laars engineers use the latest in fluid flow and heat transfer simulations as well as extensive lab testing when developing new products to ensure proper operation of your new heating system.
Each and every unit made at the Rochester, NH facility is "live fired," or tested exactly how it would run in the field, as the last step on the production line. Live firing ensures that all safety components are running as they should and that the unit functions properly before it's shipped. We record the boilers performance during this process to ensure quality is met. Not all manufactures do these extra functional tests for their customers.
We believe that offering advanced training for those that install and service our products is very important. To support this we have recently built a new, state of the art training facility where our boilers can be live fired in a hands-on learning environment. Visiting contractors and engineers train with Laars applications experts and our engineering teams.
Laars products are widely used in space heating, radiant floor heating, volume water heating and industrial process markets covering a range of 50,000 to 5,000,000 BTU/hr utilizing either natural gas, liquid propane, or electricity. Laars meets today's need for more demanding heating systems applications with over 20 different heating products, supporting accessories, and controls. Laars products are the quality choice for your home, business, or commercial heating needs
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