The first quarter of 2026 was a busy one for AirPro. Our team hit the road to connect with customers, partners, and industry professionals at five trade shows across the country. Here’s a recap of where we’ve been, what we learned, and where you can find us next.
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At AirPro Fan & Blower Company, growth has always been driven by purpose. This winter, we reached a meaningful milestone: our South facility, located right here in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, shipped its very first finished product, expanding our industrial fan manufacturing capacity in a way that directly benefits our customers.
The Fan That Started It All
The first product to roll out of South was a BIHS, Size 165, Arrangement 4V headed to a dust collection application. It was sold by Lina Larrahondo, our Regional Sales Engineer for Texas and Oklahoma. The order was acknowledged on January 28th, 2026, and shipped in just under four weeks. For a custom industrial fan manufacturer, that kind of turnaround reflects exactly what this new facility was built to make possible.
Why Two Production Areas?
AirPro has always been a custom fan manufacturer, and that work requires time, space, and focused attention. As demand has grown across markets including dust collection, we recognized the need to manage two different kinds of production work more effectively.
The South factory is designed to handle smaller, less complex fan orders: the kind of reliable, high-quality equipment that our customers count on regularly. By giving that work its own dedicated production lane, we accomplish two things at once. Standard orders move through the floor faster, and our main facility has more room and bandwidth to focus on the larger, more technically complex projects that require extra engineering attention.
The result is a more responsive operation across the board. When a customer needs to expedite an industrial fan order, we now have the flexibility to shift production around and accommodate their timeline without disrupting the rest of the shop. For industries like dust collection where equipment downtime has real operational consequences, that kind of scheduling flexibility matters.
A Thoughtful Build, A Smooth Launch
The completion of a new paint booth system was the final step in making South fully operational as an end-to-end production area. The team that planned and built out the space did so with careful attention to workflow and efficiency, and it showed. The launch went smoothly, employees have embraced the new space, and production is already ramping up faster than anticipated.
This is what employee ownership looks like in practice: people who are invested in the outcome building something that works.
Looking Ahead
The South factory is a strategic investment in our ability to serve customers better, with faster turnaround on standard equipment and more dedicated capacity for the complex work that has always defined AirPro. Whether you need centrifugal fans for dust collection, high-temperature applications, or other demanding industrial environments, our expanded production capacity means we can meet your schedule more reliably than ever.
We are proud of this milestone and excited about what it makes possible.
That foundation was critical when we took on one of our largest projects yet: 20 custom-designed Hastelloy fans needed five weeks after order.
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We’re always looking for ways to make life easier for the people who install, maintain, and rely on our equipment every day. That’s why we’re excited to highlight our lubrication system designed specifically to reduce friction, both literally and figuratively, for service and maintenance teams.
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We’ve been making a push into “small fan” territory the last few years. There is no official line in the sand about when a fan is small, medium, or large, but in general AirPro has been defined by the broader market as a medium fan manufacturer. We’ve defined the categorization as follows for industrial centrifugal fans and blowers:
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When a manufacturing facility on the East Coast needed a pressure blower in a hurry, AirPro answered the call. Just six business days after the order was placed, a fully custom-built, high-performance blower was on its way.
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This is the second installment of a two-part series on People and Processes. In Part II, we learn how precision and promises keep us on schedule for every order.
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An Experience
A good number of years ago I visited Pittsburgh for a long weekend with my wife. While there, we visited the Andy Warhol Museum. After turning 30, I found myself drawn to art museums—perhaps a promising sign of maturity. Before that, I had little interest in art, and even now I’m not entirely sure what caused this shift besides the passing of time. The Warhol Museum provides visitors with an up close and personal view of Warhol’s life as it pertains to his artwork. One interpretative exhibit resonated with me more than the others.
The shipment of any industrial fan represents a crucial last step in the manufacturing process because the customer desires timely delivery and an undamaged product. In this video we explain AirPro’s two options for managing shipping.
by Keith White Jr
Most people have experienced the keen frustration of slow response times from a business or vendor. Send an inquiry and wait two weeks just for an automated response. It’s particularly frustrating when the customer wants to place an order. The order cycle seems universal to most industries and businesses, but moving through it efficiently does not always happen.
Manufacturing plants often need to retrofit or replace existing fans to keep operations running and increase output. Our team excels at analyzing current fan installations, recommending the best course of action to take, and building the most appropriate fans for the application. That may involve building fans to exactly match existing fan dimensions and performance or modifying fan designs to increase performance.
Solutions, Reliability, & Support
If you use fans and blowers to process or produce goods, why should you trust AirPro as your partner? Here at AirPro, we prioritize our energy and resources into making high quality fans and providing the service & support you need to successfully run your operations.
Time to Get it Right
Even under ideal circumstances, achieving 95-percent-or-better on-time delivery is well above average. It’s near perfection. It takes effort, intention, and the whole team to keep the lead time down and our on-time average up. The transparency of on-time delivery tracking shows customers how serious we are about it so that they know they can trust our lead times. It also helps us spot trends and get ahead of issues – or at least recover more quickly when they arise.
Fan Machinery Reliability is the Tip of the Iceberg at AirPro
When it comes to industrial equipment, machinery reliability tends to stay top-of-mind. If it’s down, you’re down, and that means lost time and money, and often lots of hassle or even safety issues. It’s why we insist on high-quality materials of construction, top-notch welding, optimal design, rigorous testing, and proper installation. We back it all up with our 3-Year Warranty!