Harman News

With Hearth and Home Technology's recent purchase of Harman there was a lot of buzz about the company before and during the Hearth Show in Atlanta. What would change? Or would it be the same? Harman was the largest family owned company in our industry, and many were left wondering what the short and long term effects of a large corporation purchasing it would have. I am glad to say that other than the new Operations Manager it is the same great Harman with Dane and Gloria firmly at the helm with the new guard. There was more comment about how little had changed than anything, except an acknowledgement that it should not be changed. The old If it's not broken, don't fix it mentality.

Showing that they are still on the leading edge of innovation they had two new pellet products introduced. One is the long requested low price auto light stove. The P38 is probably the best value stove on the market, but the downside was that it had a simple control board, and manual ignition.
They released the P43, which has the same body as the P38, with a fresh new side panel option, but the automatic ignition control system found in their other stoves. There will now be an automatic and a manual value stove available from Harman.

They also released a new smaller pellet boiler. The HydroFlex60.
This innovative product won the Vesta award this year. It has a 60,000 Btu burner with a new remote thermostat operation, and the easiest maintenance cleaning system yet. It also has an extremely small footprint while still providing a 160 pound hopper.