Professional Supply, Inc. is an industrial heating, ventilating, and air conditioning energy consultant firm founded in 1979 by Thomas Kiser. PSI’s patented HVAC technology has generated significant energy savings relating to electric, gas, water, coal, steam, and compressed air usage for many industrial clients. PSI has also generated significant maintenance savings by reducing the amount of units required on the roof and eliminating air distribution ductwork. PSI provides a system for controlling desired building conditions through its ten patents, software copyrights, and twenty trade secrets.

PSI’s success started with Ford Motor Company in 1984. The PSI concepts and technology were implemented successfully at the Sandusky, Ohio, U.S.A. Parts Plant. This project resulted in the shutdown of the coal boilers in the Powerhouse, a reduction in Ford’s energy consumption by 30%, and an improvement in air comfort. This project involved the abandonment of over two hundred existing heaters and the installation of sixteen new heaters. The energy savings in electric, coal, gas and water were very well documented. In February 1987, PSI began nightly reporting that allowed us to evaluate our systems for energy efficiency and comfort. Every morning at PSI we check our BTU/HDD for the previous day, actual vs. projected and 72?F + 2? in all areas of the plant.

Since 1987, there has been one hundred plus official visits by other companies that have considered and successfully implemented these ideas. One of these plants was the GM Delphi plant in Rochester, New York. As a result of their project, PSI successfully implemented the first Bigfoot airhouse to industrial ventilation in 1994. This Delphi plant was recently identified in GM for its energy efficiency. After Ford Motor Company visited Delphi to see Bigfoot they allowed PSI to put compressed air heat reclaim into the Bigfoot air stream that is successfully heating the Chicago Assembly Plant today. Bigfoot (10th patent) is a large industrial air handler that brings many dynamics to the customers' facility with regards to efficiency and comfort.

In 1998, Ford asked PSI to consider performance contracting as a new method of business relations. A performance contract is a utility contract owned by PSI. Therefore, PSI owns the equipment and is responsible for its operation and performance. PSI was able to arrange capital financing as a result of its thirteen years of metering documentation and improved building comfort. Our performance contract includes construction financing and permanent financing around our 10-year metering and verification agreement. Additional savings to Ford will also occur due to sixty new Bigfoot air-houses being installed on these Ford roofs. This will enable the abandonment in place of approximately 1,725 existing heaters and blowers. PSI is presently active in implementing their technology in twelve Ford plants. The Chicago Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights, Illinois, U.S.A., is one of those twelve plants.

PSI has become one of America’s industry leaders in the successful shutdown of industrial powerhouses. Recently, it has idled the boilers in the powerhouse and decentralized the production of compressed air, enabling heat recovery into the HVAC technology. The concept behind the technology is that “energy needed should be equal to or greater than energy purchased.” PSI’s innovative HVAC systems can be felt in the world outside the buildings through their positive environmental impact. PSI’s system also focuses on improving the environment inside the plant in order to achieve enhanced productivity.