About Us

Maritime Geothermal Ltd. is a privately owned business that began manufacturing water source heat pumps in Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, Canada under the tradename NORDIC in 1983.
 
Current Management:
Glenn Kaye - President & Sales Manager.
Chris Geddes, P.Eng. - CSA Certification & ISO 9000
Dan Rheault, P.Eng - Engineering and Product Development.

1983 - Business begins through a partnership arrangement, Glenn Kaye, a self-employed businessman and Edna Kaye, a retired business education teacher (also known as "Mom"), made a decision to go into business manufacturing geothermal heat pumps. Several different ground source designs were studied before deciding upon the system best suited to local conditions. The first 3 hp Open Loop - Passive Cooling --NORDIC® ground water heat pump was built in 1983. Initial sales were centered in the Maritime Provinces. By 1985 dealers were established in Ontario, Quebec and Maine, USA.

1988 - Chris Geddes joined Maritime Geothermal as a summer student. Chris put himself through university working part-time with the company. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1995 and now works with Maritime Geothermal on a full time basis.


1990 - Maritime Geothermal successfully developsa full line of active cooling or reversing heat pumps to compete in the expanding geothermal groundloop industry. Heating ONLY and reversing Water-to-Water versions in the 2-5 ton range are also developed for infloor heating applications.

In 1992 trends in the market shifted, Maritime Geothermal responded with a Direct Expansion system in an effort to decrease costs and simplify ground coupled installations. DX systems are designed to eliminate the use of water by extracting heat from the ground via use of refrigerant loops buried directly underground. The first prototype was installed in 1993 and the first production unit was sold in the fall of 1994. Several US patents for the design and method of operation were obtained at the same time.

1995 - As a result of requests coming in from homeowners who had installed our geothermal units for the normal living area of the home, a decision was made to begin manufacturing Indoor Pool Conditioners to compliment our geothermal heat pumps.

1996 - Maritime Geothermal began producing much larger capacity "W" series units for the aquaculture industry. Equipment is now available in 12, 20 and 40 HP versions with a heating capacity of over 500,000 Btu's in a single unit.

1997 - The company feels the positive effect of Internet exposure. Sales began to increase on a global scale.


1998 - Triple Function heat pumps (a combination "R" and "W" unit) which provide full capacity hot water as well as hot and cold air via a duct system came on line in 1998 to service the requirement of homes requiring infloor heating and cooling from a single unit. These units are fast becoming our best sellers as more homeowners install radiant heating in part or all of their homes.

2000 - NORDIC® Energy Module style liquid-to-water and DX heat pumps become very popular with dealers as a direct result of the ease in which the EMW is deployed for infloor heating applications. Maritime Geothermal sees sales of EM modules increase with the growing popularity of infloor heating.

2002 - With a full line of product available Maritime Geothermal Ltd. expands the business by developing markets in Belgium, Ireland and Hungry and establishes a large distributor in Quebec.

2004 - Dan Rheault, P.Eng. joins the engineering team.

2005 - Maritime obtains shared testing facility status through CSA for test lab. Lab modified to be able to test to ISO 13256 standard being used by ARI and coming into effect for Canada in 2007.

2008 - Maritime Geothermal begins construction on a 15,000 sq.ft. addition to the original manufacturing plant. The new space allows for a second assembly line to begin operation. Click to see photos of the expansion and plant.

2010 - Maritime Geothermal's line of NORDIC Heat Pumps are AHRI certified. To earn the AHRI Performance Certified™ seal, a product must go through continuous and extensive laboratory testing in order to verify the manufacturer’s stated performance ratings.