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.
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.
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.
Industrial fan noise directivity is an indication of how the fan surroundings contribute to the sound level in the field. It is a small but important factor in specifying the right accessories, insulation, housing, and enclosures for noise reduction in your application.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are proud to announce the launch of our interactive virtual booth experience. Modeled after a real-life trade show booth, this virtual experience holds multiple points of interactivity, lots of easy-to-consume information, and a dynamic 3D product view.
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.
