The noise about fans
Fans are widely used to move air in a range of industries, including the cement industry. However, if not suitably insulated they can give rise to noise issues and impact the wellbeing of cement plant staff and local residents.
Fans are widely used to move air in a range of industries, including the cement industry. However, if not suitably insulated they can give rise to noise issues and impact the wellbeing of cement plant staff and local residents.
This fan is mounted on a wheeled trolley for mobility – it’s so mobile, it’s gone all the way from our Brighouse factory to Australia.
There’s no question that quality drives growth in any business and it’s no different in the design and manufacture of top quality industrial fans. Thirteen years ago, following demand from the burgeoning Chinese market, Halifax Fan identified China and SE Asia as having huge potential for its industrial fans and opened its first Chinese factory in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong. Growth has been spectacular with demand outstripping capacity.
Former CEO of General Motors Corporation , Alfred P. Sloan said: “you can take all my assets but if you just leave my organization with me, I can make back all my lost assets in five years.” Clearly his experience is that a company’s people are its most valuable asset.
Halifax Fan globally has many employees dedicated to the design and manufacture of industrial fans.
Today Halifax Fan celebrated the retirement of Michael Rothwell. Skilled sheet-metal worker Mick, affectionately known as ‘Rozzer’, has been a key part of our fabrication team for 28 years.
In the October issue of World Cement Magazine, John Irons and Diane Wang of Halifax Fan Group explored fans and anti-vibration mounts.
For the past four years at our Halifax Fan headquarters in Brighouse, we have been investing in our future UK manufacturing base by employing engineering apprentices.
This beautiful ATEX rated 2G fan, zone 1, 300kW 2 pole 30″ model is made from stainless with a duplex impeller.
In the 1990s most household waste went directly to landfill, now predominantly driven by the EU landfill directive, household waste is processed.