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NEWS & T RE ND S Web portal or mobile application and is ideal for customers that have vacation homes, investment properties or multi- site businesses. At the center of Total Connect Comfort Fuel Oil News Associate Publisher, Dave Campbell, presents Earth Energy Alliance founder and CEO Michael Devine the Fuel Oil News New Vendor Award for Fuel Handling and Storage, at the Water's Edge Conference Center in Westbrook, Conn. With the TacoHVAC Pumps app, users can view the performance characteristics of each pump based on specified flow and head conditions, and can email the results from within the application. The TacoHVAC Pumps app also gives mobile access to the entire document library on the Taco web- site, www.taco-hvac.com. The app avails product catalogs, instruction sheets, and wiring diagrams, will find the nearest sales representative, or call Taco tech support. industry, is pleased to announce the launch of www.bioheatdealers.com. This new site will allow homeowners and busi- nesses to find sources of cleaner burning bio-heat blends. Oilwebs has been working with sup- pliers to help get the word out about this alternative fuel. Made in the USA with renewable materials, bio-heat heat- ing oil is blended with biodegradable, organic materials such as soybean oil and is non-toxic. The new website will also offer impor- tant information and links for heating oil delivery companies that want to offer this new American fuel. Website: www.oilwebs. com; E-mail: sales@oilwebs.com; Phone: (978) 297-0332 The TacoHVAC Pumps app is just the first in a planned family of apps for mobile specifying. Please visit the iTunes store to download the free app. OILWEBS.COM LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE TO BRING BIO-HEAT TO MARKET Oilwebs.com, a leading provider of web- sites and applications for the oil heat 12 HONEYWELL INTRODUCES FREE SERVICE TO REMOTELY MONITOR AND MANAGE HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS Honeywell (Minneapolis) recently intro- duced Total Connect Comfort Services, a system that allows home and business owners to remotely monitor and man- age their heating and cooling systems with a PC, smart phone or tablet device. The services can be accessed through a DECEMBER 2011 | FUEL OIL NEWS | www.fueloilnews.com Services is the RedLINK™ Internet Gateway, a modem-like device that con- nects wirelessly to any RedLINK Comfort System and to a user's Internet router. Once a system is connected, users can view and change system settings, view and set the temperature, view the indoor and outdoor humidity, access multiple thermostats in a zoned system and receive automatic upgrades as new, additional features become available. Furthermore, users can set-up customizable system per- formance alerts for added safety, comfort and energy efficiency as needed. Users can create and activate their Total Connect Comfort Services account at www.mytotalconnectcomfort.com and download the free mobile application from the iTunes store. NEW UPONOR PUNCH&PULL™ PEX COILS PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES USABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY Uponor (Apple Valley, Minn.) recently created a new packaging design for their crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) tubing coils to offer a more user-friendly product for customers as well as honor the com- pany's sustainability goals, which include reducing packaging waste. The new design shrink-wraps a low- density polyethylene (LDPE) film around a coil of tubing and adds a circular perfora- tion in the center of the coil. Users simply punch through the perforation and pull the required amount of PEX tubing for the job. When finished, users simply tuck the tubing end back into the center of the coil and transport the coil to the next job. Any residential or commercial waste management facility will accept the LDPE film, making recycling easy. And because there is no corrugated cardboard, it elimi- nates special recycling pickups at the jobsite. The new packaging design will cover PEX tubing coils for Uponor AquaPEX®