The QMax Story

QMax Industries, LLC. was founded in 2010 by Thomas Perry in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tom put his engineering background to work by putting together a full complement of steam tracing systems starting with the flagship, QMax FTS. This product offers an innovative solution for critical, high heat steam tracing applications. FTS was quickly followed by additional innovative steam tracing products, electric heat tracing products, equipment heating jackets and industry changing tank heating solutions like QMax QFin and QMax FTS Tank Heating.

The QMax name is derived from the letter “Q” as the engineering symbol for heat transfer and Max = maximum.

QMax Industries has focused on steam tracing innovation more than any company in the industry. This focus and the outstanding product performance has made QMax a leader in the heat tracing and tank heating industries.

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