AirPro News
Five Airflow Control Strategies for Centrifugal Fans
There are many reasons you would want to control the airflow in your industrial fan application. How you do it is based on your fan curve, whether you need to reduce volume, maintain pressure, change the curve based on frequency in hertz to add efficiency, protect your system against surge, or address multiple issues at once.
Tim Siverhus, Industrial Fan Solutions, Representing AirPro Fan & Blower Company in Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona
VFD Motor Control for Overspeeding Industrial Fans
Once upon a time, direct-drive industrial fans could only go one speed. With the invention of the Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), industrial manufacturers gained a great degree of control and the ability to overspeed the fan for optimal operation in the application through which it is moving process air.
Announcing Workforce Additions and 40 Percent Increase in Factory Square Footage
We’re thrilled to announce our intent, pending permitting, to expand our two factories in Rhinelander, adding production capacity and team members to meet growing demand. The planned plant expansion begins later this year and will increase overall plant square footage by 40 percent across the two facilities.
David Sprung, AirFlow Sales, Representing AirPro Fan & Blower Company in Kansas and Western Missouri since 2008
At AirPro, our manufacturer’s representatives (reps) are our lifeline to mutual customers and vice versa. We depend on them for their application expertise, industry knowledge, and ability to translate customer challenges into solutions working closely with our application engineers. But more than anything, we rely on their deep customer relationships and service mindset. We choose them as carefully as they choose us.
An Investment in Our People, Our Community, and Our Future
2021 marks the five-year anniversary of AirPro’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). To mark the occasion, we thought we’d get some background from Founder Keith White on his decision to sell the company to his employees. Watch the video above or read on to hear what he had to say.
Support for Essential Workers
This week marks a year since communities around the world and here at home began to lock down in the face of the global pandemic. It felt – and still feels – like everything changed in an instant. But in fact, everything did not change. There were many essential businesses including AirPro that kept producing and serving thanks to the dedication of their essential workers.
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.
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.
Schaefer Industrial Air, LLC Named as Exclusive AirPro Rep for Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana
We are thrilled to announce that we have named Todd Schaefer, President, Schaefer Industrial Air LLC, as our exclusive representative serving the northern Illinois and northwest Indiana region.
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.
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.
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.