Corporate History
Power Component Systems (PCS) and Trigen Energy Corporation form a joint venture, Trigen-PCS, to begin R & D for a means to reinsulate high-temperature underground steam piping with an expandable, flowable foam insulation.
Trigen-PCS applies for patent on a method for re-insulating steam pipe in situ under the name INSITU Foam™
Trigen-PCS completes first INSITU Foam™ project restoring 1,500 LF of 12” high-pressure steam piping on the U of MD campus in College Park, MD
Trigen-PCS partners with Petrin Corporation to provide turnkey installation of removable insulation blankets on steam piping within district heating manholes
Trigen-PCS completes first INSITU Foam™ project at a Federal facility in Fort Detrick, MD
Trigen-PCS secures U.S. Patent for it’s newly-invented INSITU Foam™ technology
The joint venture with Trigen Energy is dissolved, Trigen-PCS is renamed Thermal Science Technologies and INSITU Foam™ is renamed ConduFill®
All U.S. Patent technology ownership is reassigned to Thermal Science Technologies
TST completes first two ConduFill® projects for Bell Atlantic in MD and PA to help prevent heat damage to buried fiber-optic cable bundles from nearby steam lines
TST completes it’s first ConduFill® project restoring buried high-temp hot water piping at Wright Patterson AFB in OH
TST completes it’s second ConduFill® project restoring buried high-temp hot water piping at Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ. This is the first of over 24 projects that TST would complete over two decades.
TST completes it’s first ConduFill® project for an Energy Savings Co. (ESCO) restoring buried steam piping beneath the famous ellipse park on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
TST secures it’s largest international contract to date with CPCU in Paris, France. TST trained, licensed and equipped a subcontractor to thermally restore several kilometers of CPCU’s buried steam distribution system with it’s ConduFill® technology.
TST completes it’s first of 8 ConduFill® projects for Detroit Thermal in Detroit, MI.
TST completes it’s largest ConduFill® project to date in Duluth, MN restoring 5,800 LF of thermally-degraded steam piping beneath the streets of Duluth, MN
TST secures another U.S. Patent for it’s custom-designed Mobile Pumping Unit that dispenses insulating material in situ.
TST completes it’s first turnkey Removable Insulation Cover project at a VA Medical Center in Amarillo, TX.
TST completes it’s first VISN-wide project with Utility Systems Solutions which involved the turnkey design, fabrication and installation of 3,000 Removable Insulation Covers in 10 VA Medical Centers throughout GA, AL and SC (VISN 7).
TST completes it’s 2nd VISN-wide project with Utility Systems Solutions which involved the turnkey design, fabrication and installation of 4,500 Removable Insulation Covers in 9 VA Medical Centers throughout KS, MO and IL. (VISN 15).
TST partners with Arrowhead Contractor Supply (Longview, TX) to bolster and enhance it’s capability of providing turnkey insulation blanket and mechanical pipe insulation services throughout the U.S.
TST completes two insulation projects for Steam Management, Inc. at the Hines VAMC and James Lovell VAMC located in Chicago, IL. These two projects mark the 33rd and 34th VA Medical Center locations that TST has worked in throughout the U.S.!
TST completes it’s largest ConduFill® project to date thermally restoring over 12,000 LF of buried HTHW supply and return piping on the NIEHS research campus in Durham, NC. While on site, TST also designed, fabricated and installed Removable Insulation Covers for several dozen un-insulated hot water valves in valve pits.
TST completes it’s 38th ConduFill® project for Rutgers University over a span of 23 years.
