OEM & Custom AHU Integration
The energy recovery component behind great air handlers - AHRI certified, engineered for integration, backed by 30+ years.
Engineered to Integrate. Built to Perform.
Energy recovery cores designed around your air‑handler platform.
If you build air handling units, DOAS, or energy recovery ventilators, the recovery component inside your equipment shapes its performance, its certification, and your customers’ energy bills. Innergy tech is a component manufacturer, not your competitor: we supply the energy recovery wheels, sensible and enthalpy plate exchangers, and heat pipes that OEMs integrate into their own branded equipment. For more than 30 years, with over 2 million installations across 20+ countries, we’ve delivered air‑to‑air energy recovery engineered specifically for OEM integration and custom air handler applications.
What sets us apart for OEMs is the completeness of the portfolio. Most component suppliers make one technology and expect you to design around it. Innergy tech makes all four — wheels, sensible plates, enthalpy plates, and heat pipes — so you can specify the right recovery device for each of your product lines and each of your customers’ applications, from a single AHRI‑certified partner with one selection tool (Winnergy Pro) and one support team. Our I4 energy recovery wheel is explicitly engineered for OEM integration and custom air handler applications.
Ready to integrate certified recovery into your equipment? Get the right wheel, plate, or heat pipe for every product line — from one AHRI‑certified partner with one selection tool and one support team.
A Component Partner, Not a Competitor
Air handler manufacturers have choices when specifying the recovery component inside their equipment. Here’s why OEMs choose Innergy tech:
- The Complete Four‑Technology Portfolio: Innergy tech is described as offering the most complete product line in the heat and energy recovery industry — energy recovery wheels, heat pipes, sensible plate exchangers, and enthalpy plate exchangers. One partner supplies whatever technology each of your platforms needs, so you’re never forced to fit a product to a single technology.
- Engineered for OEM Integration: The I4 wheel is explicitly designed for OEM integration and custom air handler applications, with a compact design that fits standard air handler configurations and a segmented, serviceable frame. The components are built to drop into your equipment.
- Certified Performance You Can Publish: Innergy tech describes itself as a founding participant in the AHRI 1060 certification program; its wheels carry the AHRI Standard 1060 certified seal. AHRI‑certified components let you publish verified, defensible performance on your own equipment schedules.
- Low AHU Fan Operating Cost: The I4 features the Airloop™ labyrinth seal, engineered to minimize air loss and cross‑leakage compared to conventional seals — helping lower AHU fan operating costs. Reduced parasitic loss improves your equipment’s rated efficiency.
- Proven Track Record: More than 30 years in business, over 2 million installations, and customers in 20+ countries — the supply stability and experience OEMs need for long product‑line commitments.
- Backed by Warranty & Support: A standard 5‑year full parts‑and‑labor warranty and expert technical support from selection through commissioning.
Why OEMs Partner with Innergy tech
Air handler manufacturers have choices when specifying the recovery component inside their equipment. Here’s why OEMs choose Innergy tech:
- The Complete Four-Technology Portfolio: Innergy tech offers one of the most complete product lines in the heat and energy recovery industry — energy recovery wheels, heat pipes, sensible plate exchangers, and enthalpy plate exchangers. One partner supplies whatever technology each of your platforms needs, so you’re never forced to fit a product to a single technology.
- Engineered for OEM Integration: The I4 wheel is designed for OEM integration and custom air handler applications, with a compact design that fits standard air handler configurations and a segmented, serviceable frame. The components are built to drop into your equipment.
- Certified Performance You Can Publish: Innergy tech is a participant in the AHRI 1060 certification program, and its wheels carry the AHRI Standard 1060 certified seal. AHRI-certified components let you publish verified, defensible performance on your own equipment schedules.
- Low AHU Fan Operating Cost: The I4 features the Airloop™ labyrinth seal, engineered to reduce air loss compared to conventional designs — helping lower AHU fan operating costs and cross-leakage. Lower parasitic loss improves your equipment’s rated efficiency.
- Proven Track Record: Decades of industry experience, a large global installed base, and customers across many countries — the supply stability and experience OEMs need for long product-line commitments.
- Backed by Warranty & Support: A full parts-and-labor warranty and expert technical support from selection through commissioning.
We Help Your Engineers Design Us In
- Winnergy Pro Selection Software: Innergy tech’s Winnergy Pro is advanced selection software for specifying air-to-air energy recovery with AHRI-certified performance data across its product lines — wheels, plates, and heat pipes. OEM engineers can select, compare technologies, and generate submittal-ready performance for their equipment schedules.
- Cross-Technology Selection: Because Winnergy Pro covers all four technologies, your engineers can compare a wheel vs. plate vs. heat pipe for a given platform in one tool, rather than juggling multiple suppliers’ selectors.
- Custom Sizing & Application Engineering: Innergy tech’s engineering team provides technical assistance from selection through commissioning. For non-standard AHU footprints, provide dimensional and airflow requirements and request a custom selection.
- Submittal & Documentation Support: AHRI-certified performance data, datasheets, and product documentation are available to support your submittal packages and code compliance.
- Integration-Ready Construction: Compact designs that fit standard AHU configurations, segmented and serviceable frames, and field-installed (I4R) sections ease integration and in-field service.
Customization & Configuration Options
- Technology & Media: Enthalpy (MS3A desiccant) or sensible-only wheels; sensible or enthalpy plates; heat pipes; three wheel performance levels (Active Matrix).
- Dimensions & Cassette: Multiple diameters and sizes to match airflow; segmented and half-moon/sectional configurations for handling and tight installs (I4R field-installed). Confirm custom cassette dimensions and vertical/horizontal orientations.
- Coatings & Corrosion Protection: Epoxy coating on frame and/or media for corrosive environments — important for OEMs serving pool, coastal, industrial, and wastewater markets.
- Seals: Airloop™ labyrinth seal for low air loss and cross-leakage.
- Bearings & Drive: Permanently greased bearings; drive controller kit for free cooling and frost control.
- Frame Enclosure: Top, bottom, and side aluminum panels for frame enclosure.
Industries & Applications We Help OEMs Serve
- 🏢 Commercial Offices & Mixed-Use
Workhorse DOAS recovery - 🏨 Hospitality, Multifamily & Senior Living
Corridor/make-up-air recovery - 🏭 Industrial Process & Manufacturing
Rugged separated-airstream recovery - 🍳 Commercial Kitchens & Foodservice
Sensible separated recovery - 🖥️ Data Centers & Mission Critical
Indirect economizer heat exchangers - 🌱 Agriculture, Cannabis & CEA
Dehumidification wheel + ventilation recovery - 🚧 DOAS: New Construction & Retrofit
Technology-selection guide
- 🏥 Hospitals & Healthcare
Separated-airstream heat pipes/plates + wheels - 🔬 Laboratories & Research
Class 4 exhaust: heat pipes/plates - 💊 Pharmaceutical & Cleanrooms
Contamination-critical recovery - ☣️ Isolation & Biocontainment
Zero/low-EATR heat pipes - 🏊 Pools & Aquatic Centers
Corrosion-resistant recovery - ⛸️ Ice Rinks & Sports Complexes
Ventilation recovery - 🎓 Schools & Universities
Classroom DOAS wheels/plates - 🏛️ Government & Federal
Code-driven recovery
Q: Does Innergy Tech compete with its OEM customers?
No. Innergy tech is a component manufacturer — it supplies energy recovery wheels, sensible and enthalpy plate exchangers, and heat pipes that OEMs integrate into their own branded air handlers, DOAS, and ERVs. The I4 wheel is engineered for OEM integration and custom air handler applications. You build and brand the equipment; Innergy tech provides the certified recovery component inside it.
Q: What energy recovery technologies can I source from one partner?
All four: energy recovery wheels (I4, including the I4R field-installed and I4-D passive dehumidification versions), sensible plate exchangers, enthalpy plate exchangers, and heat pipes. This gives you one of the most complete product lines in the heat and energy recovery industry. That lets you match the right technology to each platform and application — a wheel for a humid-climate DOAS, a heat pipe or plate for a lab or healthcare unit — from a single AHRI-certified supplier with one selection tool.
Q: Are the components AHRI certified?
Yes. Innergy tech is a participant in the AHRI 1060 certification program, and its wheels bear the AHRI Standard 1060 certified seal. Its Winnergy Pro software provides AHRI-certified performance data for selection and submittals, so you can publish verified sensible, latent, and total effectiveness, pressure drop, and EATR on your own equipment schedules.
Q: Can components be customized to fit our air handlers?
Yes. Options include enthalpy or sensible-only media, multiple diameters/sizes, segmented and field-installed (I4R) sectional configurations for tight or retrofit installs, epoxy coatings on frame and/or media for corrosive environments, the Airloop™ low-leakage seal, permanently greased bearings, frame-enclosure panels, and a drive controller kit for free cooling and frost control. Provide your dimensional and airflow requirements for a custom selection; confirm private-label/branding options with the Innergy tech team.
Q: How do your engineers select and specify the right component?
Through Winnergy Pro, Innergy tech’s selection software, which covers all product lines and provides AHRI-certified performance for accurate comparison and submittals. Because one tool spans wheels, plates, and heat pipes, your engineers can compare technologies for a given design in a single workflow, then export submittal-ready data. Innergy tech’s engineering team supports selection through commissioning.
Q: What about supply reliability, warranty, and service?
Innergy tech offers decades of industry experience, a large global installed base, and customers across many countries, with short lead times and on-time delivery as competitive advantages. The I4 wheel carries a full parts-and-labor warranty, and a Parts & Services function supports new and replacement needs. Confirm current lead-time and warranty terms with the sales team for your product line.
Q: How do I become an OEM partner?
Contact the OEM sales team at sales@innergytech.com with your AHU platform(s), airflow ranges, and target applications. Use Winnergy Pro to compare technologies and generate certified selections, request samples or prototype components for fit and validation, and finalize specifications, options, and supply terms. Innergy Tech’s engineering and sales teams support the process from selection through commissioning.
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