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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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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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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How to Get an Industrial Blower Quote

Questions About How to Get a Blower Quote

The question about how to get a quote for an industrial blower comes up more often than you might think. The first trick is to also search for how to get a quote for an industrial fan. Same product, different function. A blower is just a forced draft fan that sucks air in to push it through the system instead of induced draft pulling it through the system. See “related content” below to find more details and insights on that nuance.

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Expedited Fans for Medical Mask Production

Enabling Quick Ramp Up to Feed the Essential Supply Chain

There was no “business as usual” this spring. But “business as unusual” looked very different depending on your vantage point. For us, it meant finding a way to keep our employees safe and healthy while maintaining our standards of quality, reliability, and on-time delivery throughout the global pandemic. On top of all that and in the midst of a record-breaking production schedule, we had the opportunity to expedite fans for another essential business: emergency medical mask production.

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Industrial Fan Types, Energy Consumption, and the Fan Static Efficiency Calculation

Determining the Right Industrial Fan Type

Which industrial fan type do you need in your process to achieve both optimal static efficiency and reliable operation? Considerations include what the fan is processing from clean air to mild particulate to highly abrasive materials, as well as volume and static pressure. Once you know those variables, you can make the fan static efficiency calculation to select the right fan.

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Surgeless Fan Design

Surgeless Fan Design for Vibration Protection Under Pressure

If you’ve ever seen, heard or felt a pressurized industrial fan pulsing, you’ve probably also seen how damaging the resulting vibrations can be. Surgeless fan design moderates volume to avoid that costly scenario.

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