Dave Quilter is presently a Sales Engineer for Pyrotek Inc., USA Aluminum Division. Dave was formally president and co-founder of Thermal Systems America (TSA). In March of 2004, TSA was purchased by Pyrotek Inc. Dave holds a B.S. from Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, NY and an M.B.A. from SUNY Binghamton. Dave has extensive training and experience in industrial heating equipment including combustion and electric systems, and is a Xerox trained contamination control technologist. In 1992, TSA built a refractory shapes manufacturing facility in Canastota, NY to service the refractory needs of aluminium cast houses and provide precast refractory systems to molybdenum, tungsten/tungsten carbide, and powder metal sintering/processing furnaces.