Nantong, A New FANtastic Facility.
After FANtasising our dreams are turning into reality, with hard work and lots of sweat (we are in the South of China and the UK on a sunny day) from our team we are pleased to announce our new FANtastic facility. This week we signed for our new building in Nantong.
This week in Germany our multi national sales team are at the material handling exhibition, CeMAT.
Halifax Fan is at the Environmental Show, IE EXPO in Shanghai. Booth E5-D11. Stop by to see us giving solutions to keep the air clean in China.
On this day 15th April 1452 one of the greatest minds was born, he is called the father of various disciplines and produced masterpieces in science, art and engineering.
At Halifax Fan it is not unusual for employees to receive a 25 Year service recognition award, some have even received a 40-year service award.
The heavy engineering capacity of the new plant in Akron, Ohio, has enabled Halifax to produce custom designed fans from 9ins to 140ins diameter and subsequently, turnover in the USA has nearly trebled over the last 12 months. Manufacturing in North America has also won them a number of new customers in Canada, a market previously difficult to service.
Industrial fans are by their very nature, heavy, voluminous and largely made of steel. This means that shipping costs, either to the OEMs, such as oven manufacturers, who will fit them to their machines or to end users like the steel industry, can add enormously to the quoted cost. Additionally, shipping globally can add substantially to the price because of international tariff barriers. Fans shipped into the USA for example, attract a 27% tariff. US built fans avoid this penalty completely.
Outokumpu were keen to develop current technologies that would improve value in service and were not just looking a like-for-like replacement for an excessively worn impeller. They wanted to have a fan with the improved ability to resist the dust, giving the benefit of improved reliability, performance and reduced costs.