Air Burners, Inc.

Air Burners, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of air curtain burners, incinerators, and related environmental equipment headquartered in Palm City, Florida, delivers specialized combustion and waste-management equipment to federal land-management and defense agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under full-and-open competition, with no SBA set-aside posture in the majority of its portfolio despite recurring Total Small Business designations on individual delivery orders.

Air Burners' federal footprint centers on the design, manufacture, and delivery of air curtain burner systems, destructors, incinerators, and trench burners used for forest slash elimination, wildfire mitigation, biomass burning, and facilities waste management. The company's capability portfolio spans portable, semi-stationary, and trailer-mounted configurations with models including the CHARBOSS (diesel-powered, biochar-producing variants), S-series fire boxes (refractory-lined, self-contained), S-119 and S-220 burners, and flier burn boxes. Representative awards include a $456.4 million delivery order from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service for CHARBOSS Model T26 air curtain burners (placed July 2023, completed January 2024); a $249.2 million delivery order from the Department of Defense Southeast Region for a self-contained above-ground air curtain incinerator with refractory-lined burn container at Fort Hood, Texas (awarded September 2025, completing May 2026); and a $278.6 million delivery order from the USDA Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) for an S-330 air curtain burner system and ash rake supporting Six Rivers National Forest operations (awarded April 2026, completing July 2026). Recent training and certification contracts with Pacific Air Forces total $86.5 thousand across two purchase orders for air curtain incinerator operator certification in Tinian and U.S. Minor Outlying Islands locations.

Customer concentration is moderate across a broad federal footprint. The top five customer organizations by award count account for 37% of awards: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (5 awards, $716 thousand combined potential value), GSA Federal Acquisition Service (3 awards, $24.8 million), Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region (3 awards, $397 thousand), Department of the Air Force Pacific Air Forces (3 awards, $86 thousand), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (2 awards, $213 thousand). However, potential-value concentration differs sharply — GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors 90% of combined potential value across the portfolio at $24.8 million (three MAS delivery orders), while the Army Corps of Engineers' five awards carry only $716 thousand. Air Burners holds seats on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), the primary vehicle through which federal agencies procure its equipment; 19 MAS task orders carry $3 million in combined potential value. The vendor serves 28 distinct customer agencies across civilian land-management, research, and defense branches, with heavy representation in the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Department of Defense, Department of the Interior, and Department of Energy across regional and installation-specific contracting offices.

Activity has declined over the past five years — seven awards in 2023 declining to three in both 2025 and 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $156 thousand) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's primary NAICS concentration is Construction Machinery Manufacturing (21 awards) and Solid Waste Combustors and Incinerators (15 awards), with procurement typically coded under Waste Disposal Equipment and Fuel Burning Equipment Units PSC lines. Air Burners has operated as a federal contractor since at least 2011 and has no subcontract footprint in the source data; all awards are prime contracts reflecting direct sales of equipment and training services to federal agencies.