Your local branchPrime Boiler Services · Red Deer, AB155 Queens Dr., Red Deer
Prime Boiler Services has worked on Western Canada’s industrial and commercial boilers since 1991. Our Red Deer team repairs, maintains, certifies and supplies boilers over 400,000 BTU for Medicine Hat plants and backs that work with parts and rental boilers.
Medicine Hat is part of our Red Deer team’s service area, and we handle emergency and planned work there. Repairs and alterations fall under our ABSA Certificate of Authorization Permit AQP-21130.
For a tripped boiler or a flame failure, call 403-346-8787. We get heat or steam back first, then find the cause. Scheduled work, including inspection preparation, refractory repair, burner tune-ups and recertification, is planned around your production calendar.
Medicine Hat is covered by our Red Deer team
Medicine Hat sits on natural gas. Gas feeds the city’s fertilizer and methanol plants, heats the greenhouses in Redcliff and fuels a city-owned utility, a rarity in Canada. Add the regional hospital and the Suffield research base, and the area runs everything from small heating boilers to process steam plants.
Nitrogen fertilizer and methanol production use natural gas feedstock and large volumes of process steam. We repair high-pressure boilers, pressure vessels and process piping under our ABSA permit.
Commercial growers need steady heat through cold nights and -30 °C snaps. We tune burners, add O2 trim, service hot water boilers and supply rentals when a crop can’t go without heat.
Generation and utility plants depend on feedwater, deaerators and boiler controls working together. We repair deaerators, blowdown separators and feedwater tanks and modernize combustion controls.
Hospitals need heating, humidification and sterilization steam every hour of the year. We plan maintenance around redundancy and can bring in a rental boiler while a unit is down.
Base and research facilities run central heating plants that have to stay online through winter. We handle maintenance programs, water treatment and recertification for these systems.
Our maintenance programs cover combustion tuning, low-water cutoff and flame safeguard testing, refractory inspection and water treatment for steam, hot water and glycol systems. Technicians also check feedwater, condensate and controls, since many boiler problems start there.
Maintenance from Red DeerField technicians diagnose trips and failures on site and carry mobile repair equipment. In our shop we handle custom fabrication, pipe fabrication, refractory repair on boilers 25 HP to 5,000 HP and recertification paperwork. Pressure work is done under our ABSA permit.
Repair servicesPrime holds the largest boiler parts inventory in Western Canada, including safety valves, gaskets, refractory, fuel nozzles, controls and steam traps. Order 24 hours a day for delivery throughout Canada or pickup at a Prime location.
Parts & suppliesPrime’s fleet runs from a 30 BHP firetube to a 2,200 HP Nebraska watertube at 750 psig. It includes watertubes up to 800 BHP and a truck-mounted 400 BHP unit with its own generator. Diesel, natural gas and dual-fuel units cover outages, turnarounds and seasonal peaks.
Rental boilers & fleetBoilers in Medicine Hat fall under ABSA – The Pressure Equipment Safety Authority, which administers Alberta’s Safety Codes Act and Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation. We prepare boilers for inspection, handle certification and recertification, and coordinate with ABSA on repairs and hydrotests.
Medicine Hat is one of Canada’s sunniest and driest cities, with milder winters than central Alberta. It still gets -30 °C cold snaps, and that is when a weak igniter, worn refractory lining or frozen condensate line tends to fail. We recommend a fall tune-up and a freeze-protection check before the heating season.
ABSA
ABSA – The Pressure Equipment Safety Authority
Beyond the city, our Red Deer team works in Redcliff, Dunmore, Desert Blume, Seven Persons, Irvine, Bow Island and Suffield, and at plants along Highway 1 across southeast Alberta.
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Call 403-346-8787. The line is answered 24/7, and we confirm an arrival time on the call. Our technicians come from our Red Deer branch, about 4.5 hours away.
Owners must keep each boiler and pressure vessel on a valid certificate and meet ABSA inspection intervals. ABSA also certifies power engineers and pressure welders. We hold ABSA Certificate of Authorization Permit AQP-21130 for repair and alteration work and prepare boilers for inspection.
The Red Deer crews that serve Medicine Hat also handle emergency calls, maintenance programs, water treatment and recertification in Redcliff, Dunmore and Bow Island.
We prepare greenhouse boilers for cold snaps with burner tuning, O2 trim and digital combustion controls. Water treatment for closed-loop hot water and glycol systems helps prevent the scale and corrosion behind many failures. If a boiler fails mid-winter, a rental unit can carry the load while we repair it.
We deliver rental boilers to Medicine Hat plants: skid- or trailer-mounted, low or high pressure, on diesel, natural gas or dual fuel. We also rent water pumps, hoses, auxiliary fuel tanks and generators.
Call 403-346-8787 for emergency repair, scheduled maintenance, parts or a rental boiler.
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