Marspec Technical Products Announces Partnership with ENERGY STAR®

Marspec Technical Products announced a fundamental commitment to protect the environment by becoming an ENERGY STAR Partner.

Marspec Technical Products’ voluntary partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR means that they will be working towards their goal of helping clients improve energy efficiency and performance of their facilities.

Maspec’s partnership with ENERGY STAR further supports the company’s vision of providing environmentally friendly, innovative problem solving products and services helping industrial, institutional, and commercial businesses use energy more efficiency and responsibly. Marspec and ENERGY STAR believe that an organization-wide energy management approach will help their clients enhance their financial health and aid in preserving the environment for future generations.

“We are very excited about our partnership with Energy Star. We feel as though they share the same vision and goals as we do, and we are thrilled about working together to promote energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. We look forward to a sustainable future of saving energy, jobs and the environment—one Btu at a time,” says Sam Box, Vice President.

For example, Marspec recommended that one industrial manufacturing facility recover Btu’s by capturing and reusing normally wasted hot stack gases produced from an 80,000 pph boiler, and replacement of an existing, out-of-date boiler with new, highly efficient, environmentally friendly, modular boilers. The projected outcome of this particular project is astounding: Monetary savings of $636,566 per year or $53,047 per month, and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 585 pounds per operating hour, or almost 4.1 million pounds per year—the equivalent of removing 357 vehicles from the highway!

MARINE SPECIALTY CHANGES ITS NAME TO MARSPEC TECHNICAL PRODUCTS

(Mobile, AL) – Process, steam, and green equipment supplier, Marine Specialty, has officially changed its name to Marspec Technical Products.

“We’ve decided to change our name, as a reflection of who we’ve become as a company—a green organization dedicated to environmentally friendly, cutting edge technology and innovative problem solving products and services designed to help industrial, institutional, and commercial businesses use energy more efficiently and responsibly, resulting in significant reductions in energy costs, maintenance costs, and carbon emissions,” said Tom Kelly, president.

The employee-owned Mobile, Alabama based company was founded in 1923 as a maritime equipment supplier for vessels calling on the port of Mobile.

Over the years, the organization diversified into many different fields of work including consulting engineering, general contracting, boiler erection and air conditioning. Many of these divisions were spun off into free standing companies that exist today as successful enterprises.

Today, the company is a service-driven supplier of steam specialty and energy efficiency products and services, automated valves, and corrosion resistant piping and products. The company has created a specialized niche in the market, offering environmentally friendly, high efficiency boilers and cooling towers occupied with futuristic designs, along with advanced steam traps, thermal energy storage, energy recovery ventilators, and steam turbines to name but a few.

As Marspec Technical Products, the company is reaching out to commercial, institutional and traditional industrial customers with lines of equipment designed to help get the most out of expensive energy dollars while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Marspec has specialized knowledge of steam systems, heat exchange, and energy recovery practices, and provides the expertise to help apply these products through energy consultation services, heat recovery, and project identification assistance. Marspec is recognized nationwide for its extensive plastic lined pipe inventory, and their in-house machine shop adds value to customers by accommodating specialized requests for assembly and fabrication.

“Energy must be conserved for our nation to compete in the global economy successfully. Our local base of industrial production is in competition with facilities all over the world. Several of our chemical processing customers in the area lost the battle with lower-cost, overseas producers and were forced to close down operations. Therefore, our main focus as an organization today is to help our customers find ways to stay competitive in the world market while reducing their impact on the local environment. Our job is to keep jobs from moving elsewhere,” said Kelly.

Marspec Technical Products Welcomes Patrick Ruland as Inside/Outside Sales Representative for the Mississippi Gulf Coast!

Patrick Ruland is Marspec's newest addition to the team, joining the company January 5, 2009. Patrick comes to Marspec from a construction equipment rental company where he worked as an outside sales representative.

Prior to becoming the outside sales representative/account manager for the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Patrick will spend the first couple of months training as an inside sales representative, allowing for a thorough understanding of the products, customers and procedures here at Marspec.

Patrick graduated from Auburn University in December of 2006, with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing. He currently resides in Mobile, Alabama and enjoys hunting and Auburn football.

Welcome, Patrick!

Marspec Christmas Party

The Marspec team held its annual Christmas lunch on Wednesday, December 24, 2008. Marspec executives did a great job of spoiling us this year with food catered by Wintzells Oyster House and
Saucy Q Bar B Q, followed by desert from Pollman’s bakery. Kay Turner, Controller, got everyone in the Christmas spirit by having several colleagues read holiday passages aloud. My favorite passage was by Dr. Suess, from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas: “….then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?” Mr. Tom Kelly, President, made some inspiring comments and special announcements about the ending year of 2008 and the New Year of 2009 before passing out a generous gift for each and every employee in the company.

On behalf of everyone at Marspec, we wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ole Miss Chooses Tower Tech for New Expansion

The University of Mississippi selected Tower Tech cooling towers for the new law school building under construction on the Oxford campus.

Tower Tech was selected for it's overall energy efficiency characteristics due primarily to its ability to match its cooling capacity to the load demand. This advanced technology greatly reduces the amount of electricity consumed during the summer months and ultimately helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the power plant level.

The installing contractor liked the fast installation of the Tower Tech cooling towers - each tower can be lifted from the flatbed truck and set in place in about an hour.

For more details about Tower Tech visit the manufacturers web site.

Marspec’s CEM Co-Delivers Presentation at Environmental Conference

(Birmingham, AL) – Marine Specialty/Marspec Technical Products’ Certified Energy Manager, Wayne Hoggle, co-delivered a presentation on reducing wasted energy titled Energy, Money and the Environment – The Green Connection, at Manufacture Alabama’s Environmental Conference in Birmingham, Alabama on October 29, 2008. Wayne Hoggle was one of the professionals chosen to speak due to his vast experience in helping company’s identify and implement energy reduction projects.

Along with Glenn Corley of Cimtec, Wayne Hoggle demonstrated how to reduce energy waste by identifying steam and compressed air leaks, recovering steam condensate and utilizing efficient piping insulation. Mr. Corley and Mr. Hoggle stressed the importance of how reducing energy consumption will not only improve a company’s bottom line, but will also reduce its environmental impact.

Other topics covered in Manufacture Alabama’s Environmental Conference were The Science of Global Warming, Carbon Footprints What Are They & What Good Are They, Legislative Committee on Water Policy & Management, and Regulatory Agency Updates & Enforcement Trends. This environmental conference was designed to benefit plant managers, environmental and production managers, process engineers, and other individuals with environmental planning responsibilities and consultants who assist their clients with environmental matters.

Marspec on the Road

It's been a busy month for the Marspec team.

We participated in the vendor table top display at the Alabama Energy Services Coalition Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Conference in Prattville October 22. A lot of state government facilities managers were present and it was heartening to hear that energy use reduction is a prime goal for them.

Later in the month found us attending the annual meeting of the Alabama Society for Healthcare Engineering in Destin, Florida. Marspec again set up the table top display and enjoyed the company of dozens of facility engineers. Again, energy use reduction was a common topic among attendees.

Stay tuned - we might coming to an event near you!