Founded as a boiler construction company in 1865, LOOS is able to look back on an eventful company history. The product development that was probably most important for the company's success was patented in 1952. The horizontal three-pass flame tube / smoke tube boiler with internal, water-cooled flue gas reversing chamber was born. This boiler design, which certainly attracted attention in the 1950s, proved to be so sturdy, durable and universally usable that the product name, "LOOS UNIVERSAL boiler", is still seen as a synonym of quality – even today.
In the course of time, the product and services portfolio continued to expand. In addition to heating, hot water and steam shell boilers, the company also produced high-pressure cleaners and quick steam generators, made solid-fuel-fired special boilers and offered boiler systems on lease.
As markets became increasingly globalised in the 1970s, the company recognised that, by concentrating on its core business, a higher degree of automation with corresponding improvements in quality and cost-effectiveness could be achieved. The high-pressure cleaning and leased boiler business was given up, along with the construction of solid-fuel-fired boilers.
From being an all-rounder in the world of iron construction, mainly delivering directly to end customers and with its own assembly plant, LOOS has become a components manufacturer of factory-built boiler house modules, working to the highest standards of production, documentation and service.
The DAMPFFIX DF quick steam generator was the only boiler not originally designed as a shell boiler to be kept in the programme. Quick-steam generators are generally used if steam is only needed sporadically, with long interruptions in between. The advantage of the rapid heating-up time is countered by the disadvantages of more maintenance, a shorter working life and the poorer quality of the steam. Using a quick steam generator only makes sense in a limited number of applications.
At the middle of March, when ISH 2009 takes place, LOOS will therefore be stopping production of the DAMPFFIX DF quick steam generator in order to concentrate completely on its shell boiler business in the future. The range of services relating to shell boilers is so vast that even low nominal capacities can be well covered by this product.
Naturally, all orders for DF quick steam generators received by March 2009 will be met in full. The LOOS spare parts service and customer services will still be available to operators of DAMPFFIX quick steam generators.
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