Halifax Fan Ltd Reports Two Record Years.

While the global economy is still struggling and major UK high street chains are failing, one Yorkshire based traditional engineering company reports two bumper years.

Halifax Fan Ltd, based in Brighouse enjoyed sales growth of 30% in 2000/11 and followed that up with a record 43% growth over the last twelve months.

Established in 1965 to serve the local (Read More)  textile industries, Halifax Fan designs and manufactures a wide range of industrial fans and has grown to be a global player with offices and factories in China, Hong- Kong, Thailand and Sydney Australia. Managing Director Malcolm Staff, “Fan technology hasn’t changed much over many years but their application is essential in a great many industries. We saw the opportunity to strengthen our position simply by making our products more reliable and more efficient, reducing their total cost of ownership. It was also clear that the main growth market was the Far East, particularly China, where power stations and petrochemical plants were being built widely and that to enter that market, we needed a local base. In 2006 we opened a modest manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, just over the border from Hong-Kong and this has grown to span three factory units totalling some 4,000 m2. Crucially, from the outset, we focussed on embedding our UK quality practices in the Chinese plant and invested in staff training to ensure that product quality and reliability is constant regardless of which plant our products are built in.”

The petrochemical and oil industries particularly demand fans built to the highest safety standards and Halifax has developed a particular expertise in this sector, even to the extent of in-house testing and certification to these standards. This has resulted in repeat orders such as the two year contract to supply 50 hazardous area fans per month to a US oil sector company and a single order for Halifax’s biggest ever fan worth almost $1m.

All of this has required a continuous investment in computer based design and manufacturing technology, moving software and communications to the ‘cloud’ and extensive personnel training and most significantly, apprenticeships and graduate sponsorships to overcome the UK shortage of skilled engineers. Plans are in place for further growth globally so this one UK company that has ‘got on its bike’ and found success where other less bold companies have struggled to weather the recession.

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