Recent Posts

• We are ahead of the game! 02/26/15
• Hybrid: Version 3 02/02/15
• Ideal Steel Hybrid: Completed Stoves and New Designs 8/28/14

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• Why Catalytic & Hybrid Stoves are the Cleanest Burning Cordwood Stoves in America 8/26/14
• Ideal Steel Hybrid: Building & Shipping Every Day 8/22/14
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• Hittin' the Note!  (Video) 5/22/14
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• Lifting the Curtain for a Look at Wood Stove Politics 4/18/14
• Customer Letter: Stove Feedback 4/15/14
• The benefits of high efficiency: MORE HEAT! 04/08/14
• Our Favorite Beta Tester Comment EVER! 04/07/14
• First Cuts: Our Next Steel Hybrid 04/01/14
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• Discussion of comments on our petition 03/31/14
• Even MORE Petition Comments 03/28/14
• Comments on our Petition 03/28/14
• Please Sign Our Petition for Clean Stoves & Clean Air 03/26/14
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• More Improvements: Ideal Steel Hybrid 03/25/14

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• The NEXT Gearhead Hybrid Stove 03/14/14

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• Ideal Steel Improvements 03/10/14
• IDEAL STEEL Hybrid Catalytic Temperature Probe 03/07/14
• Beta-testing and Pre-Production Prices for the IDEAL STEEL Hybrid 03/06/14
• Why are non-catalytic stove manufacturers so upset? 03/05/14
• Our Design Book is Live! 03/04/14
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• BTU Output: How is it Determined? 03/03/14
• New Beta Tester: Meriden, NH 02/21/14
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• New Beta Tester: Newbury, VT 02/20/14

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• New Beta Tester in Goffstown, NH 02/11/14
• Bow, NH Beta Tester: Stove Design 2/06/14
• A quick note and pictures from a new Beta Tester 1/24/14

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• Mid-Winter Woodstove Maintenance 1/23/14
• Time lapse video of the Ideal Steel Hybrid 1/08/14
• Early news from Beta Testers 12/13/13
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• Low EPA Emissions Across All Outputs 12/10/13
• Hot Dogs! 12/07/13
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• Under the Hood 12: Ideal Steel Hybrid Burn Times 12/06/13
• Local News Coverage by WCAX TV -VIDEO 11/21/13
• National Geographic: Winning Wood Stove Designs Announced -VIDEO 11/20/13

We are ahead of the game!

Check out the EPA’s new 2015 woodstove regulations and see how Woodstock Soapstone Co. “measures-up”.  It’s great news!

New 2015 Changes in EPA Standards for Woodstoves

On February 3, 2015 the US EPA issued new regulations covering the emissions standards for wood burning stoves. In brief, the new rules require that:

Hybrid: Version 3

We are finally building beta stoves for our next (as yet un-named) steel hybrid. This will be our third hybrid:  first the Progress, then the Ideal Steel, and now a high performance woodstove with record-low emissions.  The combustion system in this version has some significant innovations to lower emissions.

Ivan welds the top on a new beta

Ideal Steel Hybrid: Completed Stoves and New Designs

Below is a sampling of the stoves that were completed and shipped from our factory today.

The State of Maine and Log Cabin Side Design were custom requests from our customers.

To see the designs in our online design book, click here. (More designs are added every week!)

Why Catalytic & Hybrid Stoves are the Cleanest Burning Cordwood Stoves in America

The Ideal Steel Hybrid has the highest efficiency of over 700 stoves tested to EPA standards, and a low 1.0 gm/hr emissions.  But the news just gets better.  When you burn cordwood in the Ideal Steel Hybrid, the efficiency is just as high, but the emissions are even lower.

Ideal Steel Hybrid: Building & Shipping Every Day

We are busy making and shipping Ideal Steel Hybrids every day! 

In fact, we've been so busy that we haven't had a chance to post all of the new designs we've been working on in collaboration with our customers. As we can, we will post the new design sets within our GEARED 2U Design Book. 

Below is a sampling of some of the Ideal Steel Hybrid stoves that have been completed for customers.

You can also find images of completed Ideal Steel Hybrid stoves on the Woodstock Soapstone Co. Facebook Page.

Enjoy!

Hittin’ the note!

We’ve been spending a lot of time the last few weeks testing our Franklin inspired steel hybrid in the lab. We hope to begin beta-testing this next new model in the early fall.  So far the results are good.