# Prater Technical Partners — full reference > Expanded reference companion to llms.txt. Includes brand-by-brand specifics, territory rules, the webstore (configure-price-and-buy) model, and the firm's editorial sourcing rules. Last updated 2026-07-16. ## Firm overview Prater Technical Partners, Inc. is an independent manufacturers' representative agency and authorized distributor 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. Prater operates a hybrid model: most lines are quote-only rep-firm lines (the represented manufacturer is the vendor of record), while a set of nationally-authorized distributor lines are configured, priced, and purchased directly on the Prater webstore, and a subset of those are stocked at the Brooklyn warehouse for same- or next-day shipment. Engineering specifications, model availability, and lead times for quote-only lines are quoted per application; distributor catalog lines carry published list ("web") prices per configured part number. ## 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): 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 3i Plus series are authorized for sale nationwide. - **Cincinnati Sub-Zero (CSZ)** — 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 3i Plus series. - **Authorized distribution — buy-resell** — for Badger Meter family brands, select Raytek lines (Mi3, CI, CM, 3i Plus), 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. Contact us for current lead time before buying. Pricing publication policy: - Rep-firm lines: no published pricing; quote-only. - Distributor catalog (buy-resell + stocked items): unit prices published online on the webstore, per configured part number. 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. ## Webstore (configure, price & buy online) Nationally-authorized distributor lines are configured and purchased directly on the Prater webstore, with list ("web") prices published per configured part number. Buyable lines: **Hedland, Blancett, Vision, Flo-tech, and Industrial Oval Gear (IOG)** (nationwide), **Raytek Mi3 / CI / CM / 3i Plus** (nationwide), and **RecordALL** (regional — webstore sales limited to Prater's Badger territory: Northern & Central NJ and NY — NYC, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley). Everything else is quote-only. - Store index and brand landings: [/shop/](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/) — [Hedland](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/hedland/), [Blancett](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/blancett/), [Vision](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/vision/), [Flo-tech](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/flotech/), [Industrial Oval Gear](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/iog/), [RecordALL](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/recordall/), [Raytek](https://pratertechnical.com/shop/raytek/). Each landing lets a buyer type a part number for an instant web price or configure a meter option by option; every shop page also carries a quote form for engineered, special-scale, or hazardous-area builds. - Prices are Badger Meter list, effective January 5, 2026 (Fluke Process Instruments list, effective July 20, 2026, for the Raytek lines); freight and any applicable sales tax are added at checkout. - **Sales tax** is collected only on orders shipped to **New York and New Jersey**, where Prater Technical Partners, Inc. is registered to collect. For orders shipped to other states Prater does not collect sales tax (the buyer's state may require self-assessment and remittance of use tax). Tax-exempt customers shipping to NY or NJ submit an exemption certificate made out to Prater Technical Partners, Inc., at checkout or via the site. - Build configuration, sizing, and factory (NIST-traceable, where the datasheet/price list confirms it) calibration are part of the product. Meter **programming and commissioning are available as an optional, quoted service** — not bundled free into a sale. - **Order documentation** (Certificate of Conformance, Certificate of Origin, calibration certificate) must be requested **at time of order** — the factory attaches it only when Prater places the order, not after the fact. ## 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 / compact turbine for dispensing, dosing, and OEM integration), 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 TV30**: 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. Distributor-side; sold nationwide; select SKUs stocked at the Brooklyn warehouse; buyable on the webstore. - **Raytek CI series**: Compact pyrometer series — companion to the Mi3 platform. Distributor-side; sold nationwide; buyable on the webstore. - **Raytek CM series**: Compact stainless-steel threaded OEM infrared sensor with thermocouple or voltage output, for integration into process equipment. Distributor-side; sold nationwide; buyable on the webstore. - **Raytek 3i Plus**: Portable short-wavelength spot pyrometer for metals and other high-temperature measurements. Distributor-side; sold nationwide; buyable on the webstore. - **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 (flanged, screw-plug, and over-the-side mounting styles), 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 (flanged, screw-plug, over-the-side), process air, enclosure heaters, and any product on heatrex.com. - **Accutherm**: Industrial and explosion-proof (Class I Div) immersion heating with a specialty in mil-spec and marine-duty elements (including Monel marine-duty). Published scope follows accutherm.com. - **Solar Products**: Infrared (IR) panel heaters and IR heater-based systems — the F/FBA quartz-composite workhorse plus M (metal-face), G (glass-ceramic), and V (high-power V-face) specialty emitters. Solar Products is an infrared heating brand, not a solar-energy / photovoltaic company. - **Hi-Heat**: Custom flexible heating elements — silicone, Kapton (polyimide, rated to 260 °C / 500 °F), 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 anti-condensation 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, reaction torque sensors, weighing systems, crane & heavy-lift load monitoring, and displays / amplifiers. - **tecsis**: Pressure transducers / transmitters, force transducers / load cells, load pins, reaction torque sensors, and calibration (a WIKA brand; presented as a callout on the WIKA-ST pages). - 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 (pharma stability and photostability). Industrial freezers (V / T / TF series). Battery test chambers including EUCAR-rated safety versions of the Zplus series. Custom chambers for specialty applications. Where 21 CFR Part 11 is referenced it is stated per the manufacturer's declaration; GxP validation is the end user's responsibility. ### 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, wound-rotor motors, and custom-engineered motor builds. IEEE-841 / NEMA Premium efficiency options. 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. Engineered packages, not panel resale. ## Programming, commissioning & service scope 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) as an **optional, quoted service** — never bundled free into a sale. 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. ## 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 - Phone: 917-673-2787 - 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.