# Prater Technical Partners — full reference > Expanded reference companion to llms.txt. Includes brand-by-brand specifics, territory rules, and the firm's editorial sourcing rules. Last updated 2026-05-03. ## Firm overview Prater Technical Partners, Inc. is an independent manufacturers' representative agency headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. The firm represents seven product categories of industrial measurement, heating, motion, environmental simulation, and remote-power equipment to engineering and procurement buyers across the northeastern United States. The business model is quote-only: Prater does not stock inventory, does not resell at distributor margins, and does not list pricing publicly. Engineering specifications, model availability, and lead times are quoted on a per-application basis through the represented manufacturer's quote system. ## Territory Territory boundaries are set per principal manufacturer; the firm is authorized for the states listed under each line: - **Aspeq Heating Group (Indeeco, Heatrex, Accutherm, Solar Products)** — NY (NYC and Long Island), NJ, MD, DE, Northern VA. - **Hi-Heat (within Electric Heating)** — Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. - **Badger Meter regional lines (incl. ATi/GasSens, Cox)** — Northern and Central New Jersey (zip 07000–07999 and 08500–08999) and NY (New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley — Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, and Sullivan). NY zip definition (per the Badger distributor contract, confirmed 2026-06-18; supersedes the earlier "up to Newburgh" derivation): 10000–11999 + 12400–12799. 10000–11999 = NYC (all boroughs), Long Island (Nassau + Suffolk), Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, and the lower (109xx) part of Orange; 12400–12799 = the rest of Orange (Newburgh/Cornwall/Port Jervis) plus all of Ulster, Dutchess, and Sullivan, and the Catskill-edge towns of Greene (Catskill 12414, Cairo, Hunter, Tannersville, Windham, Prattsville) and Delaware (Roxbury, Margaretville, Fleischmanns, Arkville, Grand Gorge, Stamford). Full counties: NYC, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan; Greene and Delaware are partial (only their towns within 12400–12799, not the whole county). Vision, Hedland, Blancett, Flo-tech, and Industrial Oval Gear (IOG) are open-distribution and authorized for sale across the United States. RecordAll is sold through the Prater webstore within the Badger regional territory above only. - **Fluke Process Instruments / Raytek / Ircon** — NJ (full state) and NY (NYC, Long Island, Hudson Valley, Catskills). Raytek Mi3, CI, CM, and 3iplus series are authorized for sale nationwide. - **Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ) / PharmaEvent** — NY (NYC, Long Island, Westchester, Rockland) and Northern + Central NJ (exclusive). - **WIKA-ST and tecsis (Force & Pressure)** — NY, Northern NJ, CT, MA, RI, Eastern PA. - **Reuland Electric (Specialty Motors)** — NY, CT, MA, RI, NH, VT, ME. - **SunWize (Remote Solar Power)** — Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. ## How orders work Three transaction models depending on which line is being ordered: - **Rep-firm orders** (most categories) — the manufacturer is the vendor of record (ships and invoices the customer); Prater handles the customer-facing workflow end-to-end (quoting through the manufacturer's quote system, entering the PO into the manufacturer's system, providing order-status updates, answering technical questions directly or escalating to factory engineers as needed). Pricing is quote-only. Applies to Indeeco, Heatrex, Accutherm, Solar Products, WIKA-ST, tecsis, Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ), Reuland Electric, and all Fluke Process Instruments and Raytek lines other than Mi3, CI, CM, and 3iplus series. - **Authorized distribution — buy-resell** — for Badger Meter family brands, select Raytek lines (Mi3, CI, CM, 3iplus), Hi-Heat, and SunWize. The customer's purchase order is issued to Prater Technical Partners Inc.; Prater purchases from the manufacturer; products are received at the Brooklyn warehouse for inspection and consolidation; Prater ships to the customer and invoices directly. Unit prices for catalog items are published online. SunWize and Hi-Heat are vendor-of-record distributor lines fulfilled by factory drop-ship rather than the Brooklyn two-stage flow. - **Direct-from-stock fulfillment** — select Raytek Mi3 SKUs, Badger Vision, and Badger RecordALL are stocked at the Brooklyn warehouse for same- or next-day shipment. Special-order configurations route through the buy-resell flow. Pricing publication policy: - Rep-firm lines: no published pricing; quote-only. - Distributor catalog (buy-resell + stocked items): unit prices published online on the relevant product pages. Prater Technical Partners is a member of MANA (Manufacturers' Agents National Association), which covers the rep / rep-distributor / master-distributor spectrum. The hybrid rep + distributor model is consistent with MANA membership. For ordered or stocked devices, Prater provides meter programming (loading customer-specific configuration, calibration parameters, and communication settings) and commissioning assistance (remote or on-site startup support). Full field installation, ongoing on-site repair, and standalone calibration services are not provided directly and are referred to manufacturer-authorized service networks or qualified third-party shops. ## Categories and brands ### Flow Meters - **Badger Meter family** (full portfolio): Blancett (turbine), Cox (precision turbine), Dynasonics (ultrasonic — common in sub-metering), Hedland (variable-area), Impeller / Data Industrial (paddle wheel — common in irrigation), Industrial Oval Gear / IOG (positive-displacement), Industrial Turbo (turbine), ModMAG (electromagnetic — common in sub-metering), Vortex (vortex shedding), Vision (small positive-displacement for dispensing machines), RecordALL (water utility / sub-metering), AquaCUE AMR (automatic meter reading / sub-metering), Telog (data logging / remote telemetry), ATi / GasSens (gas detection), Flo-tech (hydraulic test and diagnostic). - **Preso** (Badger Meter brand): Differential-pressure primary elements — averaging Pitot tubes (Ellipse industrial and commercial grade), venturi meters (full-bore and insert), segmented wedge, and cone-element flow meters. - Application range covers process flow, water/wastewater, hydraulic test, lube oil, fuel, gas measurement, irrigation, and sub-metering. ### IR Pyrometers (Fluke Process Instruments) - **Endurance series**: E1A / E2A single-color and E1R / E2R ratio (two-color) integrated pyrometers; EF1R / EF2R fiber-optic ratio pyrometers. The Ircon brand line is now fully migrated into the Endurance series under FPI branding; legacy Ircon ratio instruments migrate to Endurance R-series, never to single-color successors. - **Thermalert 4.0**: Single-color spot pyrometers — ten spectral models including LT, G5, G7, P3, P7, MT, HT, 1M, 2M, 3M, and flame (CO2/CO/NOX) sensors. - **Raytek MP150 line scanner platform**: Multi-spectral linescanner — flagship applications include glass tempering and slab/billet temperature mapping. The same hardware platform is also sold under FPI MP Shortwave and Ircon nameplates. - **MP-SYS application software** (for MP150 line scanners): GS150 — glass applications including annealing, tempering, and bending; GS150-LE — Low-E glass processing; EC150 — plastics web processes including extrusion, coating, and lamination; ES150 — web applications ranging from hot rolling mills to paper drying; TF150 — thermoforming for scrap reduction and product quality. - **CS400**: Kiln shell monitoring system (rotating cement / lime / metallurgical kiln scanner with dedicated thermal-mapping software). - **ThermoView TV40**: Fixed thermal imagers. - **Raytek portable handheld pyrometers**: Spot pyrometers for field measurement. - **Raytek Mi3**: Compact pyrometer series with wide range of spectral responses for plastics, glass, and metals applications. Two-piece modular design — a miniature sensing head plus a separate electronics/communication box; the current successor to the discontinued Raytek MI two-piece compact. Distributor-side; sold nationwide; select SKUs stocked at Brooklyn warehouse. - **Raytek CI series**: Compact pyrometer series — companion to the Mi3 platform. Distributor-side; sold nationwide. - **Raytek CM series**: Compact stainless-steel threaded OEM infrared sensor with thermocouple or voltage output, for integration into process equipment. Distributor-side; sold nationwide. - **Raytek 3iPlus**: Portable short-wavelength spot pyrometer for metals and other high-temperature measurements. Distributor-side; sold nationwide. - **Raytek legacy migration**: discontinued Raytek installations are supported in the field with defined migration paths to current lines — Marathon MM / MA → Endurance single-color (E1M / E2M / E3M); the two-color Marathon MR → Endurance E1R / E2R; Marathon FA / FR fiber-optic → Endurance Fiber-Optic (EF1M / EF2M, EF1R / EF2R); Thermalert XR / TX / SX and the T3Plus thin-film monitor → Thermalert 4.0; the two-piece compact MI (RAYMI — MID / MIC / MIH; LT 8–14 µm, 10:1 / 22:1, −40 to 600 °C) → Raytek Mi3; MP50 / ScanIR2 line scanners → MP150 with MP-SYS software (CS100 kiln → CS400, TIP450 → TIP900); legacy ThermoView → current ThermoView fixed imager; Raynger 3i → Raynger 3i Plus. Two-color (ratio) instruments always migrate to a ratio successor, never to a single-color one. ### Electric Heating - **Indeeco**: Process air heaters, immersion heaters, duct heaters, industrial unit and area heaters (200-series), heat trace, impedance pipe heating (including iHeat HRSG steam-drum sample-line application), heater control panels (On/Off, SCR, Vernier hybrid SCR/step, step controllers / sequencers), Sure-Steam Wet Pack Prevention. - **Heatrex**: Immersion, process air, enclosure heaters, and any product on heatrex.com. - **Accutherm**: Full Accutherm catalog available, with primary specialty in mil-spec and marine-duty heating elements. - **Solar Products**: Infrared (IR) heaters and IR heater-based systems. - **Hi-Heat**: Custom flexible heating elements — silicone, Kapton, and polyester substrates; wire-wound and etched-foil construction; suitable for low- through high-temperature applications. - All electric-heating products in this category are quote-only. Most are custom build-to-order; select enclosure heaters and spare parts ship from stock (typically within a week). ### Force & Pressure - **WIKA-ST**: Pressure transducers / transmitters, calibration; force transducers / load cells, load pins, and reaction torque sensors. - **tecsis**: Pressure transducers / transmitters, force transducers / load cells, load pins, reaction torque sensors, and calibration. - Territory: NY, Northern NJ, CT, MA, RI, Eastern PA — applies to WIKA-ST and tecsis only. ### Environmental Test Chambers - **Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ)**: Benchtop, reach-in, drive-in, and walk-in chambers covering temperature, temperature/humidity, thermal shock, AGREE/HALT/HASS vibration-combined, altitude, and stability storage. Battery test chambers including EUCAR-rated safety versions of the Zplus series. Custom chambers for specialty applications. ### Specialty Motors - **Reuland Electric**: Close-coupled brake motors, two-speed motors, severe-duty industrial motors, hoist-duty motors, movable-bridge motors, dam gate motors with special torque profiles, high-speed test stand motors, overhead bridge and trolley motors, heavy equipment motors, and custom-engineered motor builds. Quote-only. ### Remote Solar Power - **SunWize**: Turnkey off-grid photovoltaic power packages for SCADA, telecom backhaul, oil & gas monitoring, cathodic protection rectifiers, and environmental monitoring stations. ## Editorial sourcing policy All product specifications, model numbers, and application claims published on pratertechnical.com are verified against one of: (a) the current manufacturer catalog or datasheet PDF, (b) factory engineering input via direct correspondence with the manufacturer, or (c) the manufacturer's published price list (where one exists). When a specification cannot be verified through one of these sources, it is omitted rather than approximated. The firm does not invent part numbers, generalize from competitor data, or extrapolate ratings beyond what the datasheet states. Marketing superlatives common to industrial-rep websites are filtered out in editorial review; published copy describes what each instrument or system does, not how it ranks against competitors. Territory copy is always stated affirmatively — what is covered, never what is excluded. ## Contact - Email: sales@pratertechnical.com - Address: Brooklyn, NY (full street address on the homepage and About page) - Membership: MANA (Manufacturers' Agents National Association) ## What Prater does not do - Not a full-service installer or repair shop; field installation, ongoing on-site repair, and standalone calibration services are referred to manufacturer-authorized service networks or qualified third-party shops. - Does not represent product lines outside the seven categories listed above.