furnace manufacturers

Manufacturers are offering different furnace models with different efficiencies and qualities. Pay attention to it.

Choosing a furnace brand and a good manufacturer is important, but there are other issues equally important that you should consider previously to buying. Consider:

- the more environmentally-friendly types of furnaces: pellet and other biomass furnaces; besides being more friendly for the environment they are also economical solutions.
- radical alternatives like geothermal heat pumps or solar solutions.
- solar passive heating and landscape heating techniques (if building a new home);
- duct insulation and home insulation (to reduce the heating needs and the size or even the need of the furnace);
- the type of high rated furnaces: prefer a condensing furnace, with an AFUE as high as possible (more than 90%);
- the size and installation issues, largely associated with your home's insulation. Well insulated homes require much smaller heating appliances;
- UL, Energy Star and other official certifications.

AFUE, certifications and labeling

The same manufacturer may present different furnace models with different efficiencies and qualities. Pay attention to it, and also to certifications and the labeling by official entities like UL or Energy Star.

Choosing a good furnace manufacturer

Choosing a popular brand and large manufacturer – instead of a small and unknown one - may be a clever option, or at least a good starting point.

Some of the most popular furnace manufacturers and brands

American Standard, Rheem, Trane, Lennox or Carrier are between the most well-know furnace manufacturers. All these manufacturers have excellent models and brands.

We list below, by alphabetic order, links to these and other popular manufacturers.

For a list of Energy Star furnace manufacturers, see: Energy Star List

Note:
Our site is informative. All the mentions in this page doesn't mean a support to any furnace manufacturer.

List of popular furnace manufacturers

Amana
American Standard
Armstrong
Bryant
Carrier
Coleman
Goodman
Heil
Lenox
Payne
Pinnacle
Rheem
Traine
York

Furnace manufacturers & Environment

New high efficient furnaces are much less polluting than outdated ones. But they aren't exactly an environmental choice.

On the other hand, pellet, corn and other biomass furnaces are a committed step to a more environmental solution, but it’s the smaller and mostly unknown manufacturers that are engaged in these type of furnaces, using a complex mix of old technologies with some new improvements. Pinnacle/Traeger is a major example of such a manufacturer.