Month: August 2026

RELCON is proud to share that we have received Honeywell’s prestigious Visionary Award, a recognition that celebrates outstanding achievement, innovation, and impact in the gas measurement industry.
This award reflects the dedication of our team and the trust our customers place in us to support critical natural gas measurement and utility modernization projects.

For more than 65 years, RELCON has helped industrial, commercial, and natural gas facilities improve the safety, reliability, and performance of their operations through engineered solutions, trusted products, and long-term service support.

Recognized for Innovation and Impact

The Honeywell Visionary Award recognizes partners who demonstrate excellence in project execution, technical innovation, business impact, and the ability to support large-scale, complex deployments.

RELCON earned this recognition through a multiyear utility modernization initiative focused on replacing legacy meter reading technology across a large operational footprint. The project required careful planning, technical coordination, field support, and hands-on training to ensure a successful deployment.

Through this initiative, RELCON helped the customer modernize critical gas measurement infrastructure while delivering measurable results, including approximately 117% year-over-year growth within a strategic account.

Supporting the Future of Gas Measurement

Natural gas utilities rely on accurate, dependable measurement systems to manage performance, improve visibility, and make informed operational decisions. As older systems become harder to support, modernization becomes essential.

For this project, our team helped deploy advanced volume correction technology designed to improve measurement accuracy and create a scalable platform for future applications. Rather than treating the project as a one-time upgrade, our team helped establish a standardized foundation that can support additional capabilities over time.

That forward-thinking approach is already creating new opportunities, including expanded pressure monitoring applications that build on the original deployment.

What This Means for Our Customers

This recognition reinforces what RELCON truly strives to deliver on every project: practical expertise, reliable technology, and long-term value.

Our team supports natural gas customers with solutions such as:

⦁ Gas measurement and volume correction
⦁ Pressure monitoring
⦁ Communication assemblies
⦁ Data collection and alarm handling
⦁ RTU and remote monitoring integration
⦁ Field service, startup, and training
⦁ Long-term troubleshooting and support

By combining proven Honeywell technology with our field experience and customer-first approach, we help utilities and industrial facilities modernize their systems with confidence.

A Proud Moment for the RELCON Team

We are grateful to Honeywell for this recognition and to our customers for trusting us with projects of this size and importance. Most importantly, we are proud of the RELCON team whose technical knowledge, dedication, and commitment to service made this achievement possible.

The Honeywell Visionary Award is a meaningful milestone, but it also points to what comes next. As the natural gas industry continues to evolve, RELCON remains committed to helping customers implement smarter, more reliable measurement and monitoring solutions built for long-term performance.

If your organization is evaluating gas measurement modernization, pressure monitoring, data collection, or communication system upgrades, our team is ready to help.

Contact RELCON today to discuss your next natural gas measurement or utility modernization project.

In the Midwest, winter doesn’t announce itself politely. One week you’re finishing up fall maintenance, and the next you’re watching the forecast for the season’s first hard freeze. For facilities that depend on continuous flow — pipelines, process water, fire sprinkler systems — that gap between “we should get to that” and “it’s already frozen” is where most winterization failures happen.

At RELCON, we specialize in engineered winterization for commercial, industrial, and utility infrastructure. Our team designs and services the thermal management systems that keep critical operations running safely through extreme Midwest winter conditions. And the single biggest factor in whether those systems perform when it matters isn’t the equipment itself — it’s when planning begins.

The Cost of Waiting Until It’s Cold

Heat trace cable, freeze protection controls, and de-icing systems all require design work, cable audits, and installation time. Once temperatures drop and demand for these services spikes across the region, lead times stretch, install crews get booked out, and facilities that waited are left reacting to a freeze event instead of preventing one.

Winterization done under pressure also tends to be winterization done incompletely. A rushed install skips the cable audit that would have caught a failing circuit. A late-season assessment misses an enclosure that needed replacing. Planning early isn’t just about convenience — it’s about giving your systems the same level of engineering rigor that keeps them reliable for years, not just for one season.

What Comprehensive Winterization Planning Covers

Effective planning looks at the whole facility, not just the pipes people worry about first. RELCON’s core winterization services include:

• Process Winterization: Pipe freeze/fire sprinkler protection, Control & Monitoring Assessment, and Turn-key heat trace installations
• Surface Snow/Ice Melting: Design and commissioning of pavement, sidewalk, roof, and gutter de-icing systems using self-regulating heating cable for ramps, walkways, stairs, and concealed roof-and-gutter applications.
• Equipment & Instrumentation Enclosures: Weather-tight enclosures and heated modular supports that protect critical transmitters, valves, manifolds, SCADA and control equipment from freeze damage.
• Project Design Support: Custom installation drawings and off-site modular skids engineered around local Midwest weather data, so systems are sized correctly before the first cold snap — not after.

Each of these areas takes time to design and schedule correctly. Starting the conversation in late summer or early fall gives our team room to assess your facility, size the right solution, and install it before it’s under winter’s full workload.

Backed by Industry-Leading Partners

RELCON’s planning process is built on relationships with manufacturers who set the standard in freeze protection and thermal management, including Chemelex (Raychem) for heat trace cable and controls, Hubbell Water Heaters for commercial and industrial water heating, OGI Quickwater (TERI) for station water bath heaters, O’Brien Corporation for heated instrument enclosures and impulse-transport tubing, Shelter Works for custom fiberglass equipment shelters, and Bruest Catalytic Heaters for flameless infrared heating solutions. We also hold Diamond Channel Partner status with Honeywell, the highest level of partnership, for process automation and control system design.

That network matters most during the planning stage, when the right combination of equipment — not just the first thing that’s available — determines how well a system performs in January.

Planning Also Means Knowing What You Already Have

Winterization planning isn’t only about new installations. It’s also the right time for a Complete System Audit — a review of your existing freeze protection covering energy efficiency, equipment performance, compliance and safety, and maintenance practices. RELCON provides a detailed report of findings and recommendations, so you know exactly where your facility stands before winter puts it to the test.

If you already have heat trace in place, early planning is also the window to address heat trace troubleshooting, panel and controller programming, and optimization of existing systems — work that’s far easier to schedule in September than in the middle of a January cold snap.

Start the Conversation Now

Every winterization project — whether it’s a full process heat trace install, a roof de-icing system, or a facility-wide audit — benefits from lead time. The facilities that come through winter without freeze events are, almost without exception, the ones that started planning while the weather still gave them room to do it right.

Our calendar fills quickly as temperatures start to fall. Secure your assessment now and give your facility the protection that comes from four generations of thermal expertise.

TAKE ACTION TODAY — SCHEDULE YOUR ASSESSMENT NOW

Contact RELCON to reserve your winterization assessment before the season’s demand peaks.