Research & Development

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Heat Trace has been in business since 1974, and we are the only UK company that manufactures self-regulating electrical heat tracing cables and systems. 90% of our products are exported.

Major investments in Research and Development have enabled us to become the global technical leader in our field. Heat Trace core technolgy is the development of electrical heating products based on semi-conductive polymers. Heat Trace‘s strategy is to maintain and extend this technological lead by the following five step approach.

Heat Trace invests 15% of turnover in R&D.

Heat Trace works with leading UK universities and research organisations so that new technology can be quickly transferred into the development of advanced new products

Heat Trace utilises UK and European grants for research, product development and personnel training. Heat Trace has been awarded six major grants in the last five years

Heat Trace’s objective is to launch 4 new products every year. A selection of these new products can be found on our New Products page

Heat Trace protects its technology with an extensive patent portfolio. The company has been granted 11 patents, and has another 12 patent applications filed in the major global market regions. The patents granted are as listed in the following table

	Patent Title	Patents Granted
1	Surface Heating Equipment	US Patent US 4,121,093
2	Resistance Monitoring Circuit	Great Britain Patent GB 2080643
3	Heat Sensitive Circuit Interrupter	European Patent 0095315 B1
4	Control of Electrical Heating Apparatus	Great Britain Patent GB 2156098
5	Electrical Heater	US Patent: US 4,721,848
6	Electrical Heater	Korean Patent KR-94006521
7	AHT High Temperature Heating Cable	European Patent EP-01308865.3 US Patent: US-10/ 010328 Canadian Patent CN-2359293
8	Electrical Heating Cable	European Patent EP-03765165.0
9	Heated Conduit	European Patent EP-03792458.6 US Patent US -10/525106
10	Self-Regulating Electrical Heating Cable	Russian Patent. RU-2006113117
11	Heated Fluid Line	German UM DE-202005004602.7