Mcconnell Technologies, Inc

McConnell Technologies is the leading company in designing and supplying both dry fuel suspension burners and sloped grate green sawdust burners for heating soft wood lumber kilns and rotary dryers. It spawned from McConnell Industries. McConnell Industries was formed in 1970 by a group formerly with McConnell Sales and Engineering. Group was led by Clifford McConnell, who was formerly a part owner of McConnell Sales. The main focus of the new company was to design and manufacture direct fired lumber dry kilns for the soft wood lumber industry in the South East. As the result of the OPEC oil embargo in 1973, McConnell Industries designed and installed the first wood burner to fire direct into a lumber dry kiln, replacing natural gas and oil that was the main fuel for direct fired kilns. By 1984 the company needed a larger manufacturing facility and a sq ft plant and office to manufacture kilns and burners was built in Trussville, AL. By the early 1990s, after several recessions including the “Desert Storm” in 1991, the company decided to discontinue manufacturing dry kilns and to concentrate on designing wood burners. Downsizing the company meant the manufacturing facility was not required. By 1996 the company had sold the manufacturing facility and reorganized the company as McConnell Technologies, Inc to reduce liabilities from prior jobs.