Backer Hotwatt is a leader in the design and manufacture of resistance heating elements. Our company began over 60 years ago with the manufacturing of one product, the open coil heating element. Since then Backer Hotwatt has expanded our product line to include cartridge, air process, immersion, strip and finned strip, tubular and finned tubular, band, foil, flexible glasrope®, crankcase and ceramic heaters. The most important companies in the industrial, medical, packaging, instrumentation, aviation, and military markets rely on Backer Hotwatt for our quality and reliability.