Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corporation is an engineering-based manufacturer of combustion systems, burners, instrumentation, controls, data acquisition systems, specialty burners, fuel handling systems, and component parts for industrial, institutional, and commercial power plants. The three major manufacturing divisions of Preferred Utilities are all based in Danbury, CT. Preferred Instruments develops complete solutions to monitor and control combustion systems. This included everything from the various sensing instruments and electric actuators to the microprocessor-based controllers and personal computer-based supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Preferred Instruments provides system design, engineering drawings, manuals, system fabrication, custom software, configuration, test, and field start-up. Preferred selects and supplies transmitters, recorders, and valves to provide a complete system with single source responsibility. Preferred Utilities engineers and manufactures systems involving the handling and burning of fuel. Preferred Engineering engineers and manufactures outage support equipment for nuclear power plants and supplies a full nuclear quality control program.