Taco, Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of hydronic-based heating and cooling equipment and systems for use in residential, commercial and institutional buildings. The ISO 9001-registered company was founded in 1920 and remains privately owned and operated by the White family. It serves the HVAC industry with a wide range of American made products that have earned a solid reputation for being reliable, durable, easy to install and maintain over the operational life of a building.
Community involvement and give-back plus environmental responsibility are two key mission points for Taco. The company embraced the Green Building Movement early on, and produces innovative, energy efficient products and systems, like LoadMatch® and LOFlo®, which assist LEED certification scoring, as well as water conservation and solar-based products.
Innovation and sustainability at Taco involves all Taco employees at all levels, working within an early twentieth century mill-type building that the company has preserved and expanded with the addition of a LEED certified warehouse and distribution facility that employs co-generation, solar panels, day lighting and extensive recycling. A second expansion project, with an objective of LEED Silver certification, is under way and will provide new and expanded space for offices, classroom and presentation venues plus Taco products-at-work demonstration spaces, all designed with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind.
Taco provides products and systems to assist architects, builders, engineers and contractors in designing, constructing and equipping sustainable building spaces that provide optimal indoor comfort through energy efficient heating and cooling systems. Its new iWorX automated controls product line from Taco Electronic Solutions allows building owners, facility managers and servicing contractors to monitor building energy systems and security from off-site and online.
Taco LOFlo™ Mixing Block system
A LoadMatch®-based Radiant Heating-Cooling System
Taco, Inc. is ready to tap into the emerging radiant cooling market with its recently introduced LOFlo™ Mixing Block (LMB). The LOFlo Mixing Block has been designed to work with Taco’s LoadMatch® single pipe system along with active-passive chilled beams and a 100-percent DOAS to supply latent cooling.
Taco LoadMatch® System
A New Approach to Hydronic Heating and Cooling
The Taco LoadMatch® system is an innovative approach to hydronic heating and cooling that enables engineers to design and deliver more efficient, more comfortable systems to their customers while saving time, energy and money.
As a Taco Green Product, LoadMatch is ideal for “sustainable design” or “green building” projects and it helps projects qualify for LEED Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Keywords: controls, cooling, energy efficiency, heating, HVAC, hydronics, solar, sustainability, wate conservation
