Efficiency Gains for Combustion Air Fans

Backward Curved Models Now Offer Smaller Fan Sizes

We are excited to announce the expansion of our Backward Curved models to include fans with wheel diameters below 27 inches. Combustion Air and other Forced Draft applications often require fans designed for low airflows at higher pressures, and we have traditionally supplied our high-pressure blower models for these applications. But our customers started asking us for fans with lower horsepower requirements, and our product development team set out to expand our offerings with more efficient options.

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The Long and Short of Centrifugal Fan Troubleshooting

How to Troubleshoot Centrifugal Fan Air Volume, Pressure, and Power Consumption

Centrifugal fan troubleshooting is definitely a science. But to application engineers like us, there’s also an art to it. The trick is knowing what to measure and the system effects that can influence those measurements. And it all depends on the specific application. The really short answer to the question of how to troubleshoot a centrifugal fan is to call an application engineer at the fan manufacturer or your manufacturer’s rep. They’ll know exactly where to look. But if you want to take a peek under the hood yourself, here’s a quick overview of where to start, what to measure, what to watch for, and ways to adjust.

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Delivering the Goods in 2020

Manufacturing Efficiency & Growth in the Time of COVID

At the turn of each year, we take the time to look back at what we accomplished in the previous year. That’s an important exercise for an organization dedicated to continuous improvement based on serving the customer with absolute reliability and quality. From manufacturing efficiency to sales growth, year-over-year progress and momentum are key to a strong and sustainable business.

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Hugging Curves: Custom High-Pressure Blowers for Peak Performance

Introducing a Custom High Pressure Blower Line Extension

Industries such as Petrochemical & Chemical often require extremely customized industrial blowers to meet industry standards with maximum reliability. If that’s you, we’ve got good news. We now offer an ultra-custom High Pressure Blower line with increased airflow capacity up to 150,000 cfm. Stringent customizations are available, including API 673/560 compliance. If that’s all you need to know, we’re ready to talk.

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Join Us for a Video Factory Tour

Stop By Our Industrial Fan Factory from Wherever You Are

As an essential business, we’ve stayed open and busy throughout the pandemic, but it’s been almost a year since we were able to host visitors at our fan manufacturing plant. We used to host customers here regularly and enjoyed showing them what goes into the centrifugal fans and blowers that end up in their industrial applications. But when we find a roadblock, we always find a way around it, and the solution on this one was simple enough: a video factory tour.

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The Business of Giving Back

Closing 2020 with Donations in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, to Support Four Local Nonprofit Organizations Close to Home

Since our founding in 2002, we’ve held a philosophy of profit-sharing over profit-taking. That has always meant that when the business is doing well, so are the employees and our surrounding community. In 2016, we formalized employee profit-sharing by becoming 100% employee-owned. And our donations in the community in and around Rhinelander have continued too.

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Industrial Fans or Packers Fans: Which are Louder?

Industrial Fan Noise Reduction

Industrial fans used in process manufacturing and Packers fans at Lambeau Field are in the same ballpark in terms of the noise level. They can both be loud enough to require mitigation. For Packers’ fans, that might be as simple as earplugs – we love a good loud crowd! But for industrial fans, it means taking fan noise reduction measures to stay below the specified level.

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Founders’ Message: Quality of Work, Quality of Life

Guaranteed Reliability Isn’t Just for Industrial Fans

Since our founding in 2002, AirPro has focused on the bigger picture just as much as the details of our industrial fans. That’s because from the very beginning, our founder, Keith White Sr., built it into our culture to be laser-focused on quality and reliability for our customers, vendors, colleagues, and neighbors. Even as we have grown and become employee-owned, we have nurtured that culture, and we hope it shows in everything we do.

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High-Temperature Fan Bearing Protection

Careful Where You Put Your Insulation

Fan bearing protection is always a high priority, especially with high-temperature fans. That’s because most high-temperature fan failures happen at the inboard bearing. But why? What’s special about that spot? To understand that, you need to understand some nuances of high-temperature fan design and common mistakes made during installation.

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Honoring the Role of Industry in Rhinelander

New Mural Depicts Founders from Across Rhinelander’s History

On September 3, 2020, AirPro Fan & Blower Company unveiled a mural celebrating the role of industry in Rhinelander’s history. The Rhinelander community, as well as the descendants of its industrial founders, gathered from all across the nation to witness the mural’s introduction.

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High-Temperature Fan Coating

Selecting the Right Coating for Insulated High-Temperature Fans

It’s common to apply an industrial coating on the external airstream to make a fan more resistant to heat, fire, particles, etc. and to protect it from corrosion. But there’s more to it than slapping on a coat of paint. There are special considerations for high-temperature fan coating, particularly when you add insulation to the mix. The choices are based entirely on the fan material of construction, namely what kind of steel is used.

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Quick Ship Industrial Blower

New Product Line Announced for OEM Dust Collection Applications

In April of 2020, we introduced our new 3-Year Gold Standard Warranty, which now comes standard on all the products we design and build. Now the innovation continues with the launch of our new line of quick ship industrial blowers for OEM dust collection applications. This off-the-shelf line of high-volume single-width backward inclined fans is called BIQS (Backward Inclined Quick Ship), shipping in 12 days with no expedite fee.

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