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The Textile Magazine
DECEMBER 2011
partner, marks a milestone in its ca-
reer. This collaboration enables it to
stretch its reach beyond the borders
of the textile vertical.
“The joint venture with Chicago
Blowers Corp (CBC) is more of a
technical collaboration where we
would be manufacturing products
using their technology”, said Mr.
Prakash Panchal, Joint Managing
Director.
CBC, a manufacturer of differ-
ent types of fans and blowers, was
established in 1947 in Chicago.
The company moved to its current
manufacturing facility at Glendale
Heights in 1968 and since then has
expanded and modernized the plant
a number of times to provide the
best technology to the customers.
CBC was the first fan company in
the world to design and sell a cen-
trifugal fan blade (1958) with an air-
foil shape in the commercial market.
This new shape meant that the com-
pany fans could produce the same
airflow requirements as its competi-
tors but with 20 per cent less energy.
Today CBC products are used for
various applications such as heat-
ing, ventilating, pollution control
and air-conditioning in areas like
helicopters, locomotives, hospi-
tals, steel mills, power plants, sugar
mills, paper mills, glass industry,
cement plants and processing plants.
The fans are approved by the Ameri-
can Petroleum Institute (API).
CBC fans are in operation at the
Sydney Opera House in Australia,
the Petronas Twin Towers in Ma-
laysia, the Pentagon, on the elevat-
ed tracks in Chicago, McCormick
Place and the United Airlines termi-
nal at O’Hare.
The collaboration with the com-
pany enables Draft-Air to produce
fans ranging from 0.5 hp to 5000
hp according to customer demand.
The company is now expanding into
another unit to manufacture fans for
various industries. The new facility
will house all the modern processes
and technology available in the mar-
ket to produce fans of superior qual-
ity.
Draft-Air has also upgraded its
existing manufacturing facility with
latest CNC machines imported from
Europe to improve the quality and
production capacity.
The company range of products
covers textile air engineering (hu-
midification systems, refrigeration
systems, automatic control system,
fibre recovery plants and yarn con-
ditioning); ventilation and air pres-
surisation system (power plants,
steel plants, cement industries, re-
fineries, bulk drugs and pharma-
ceuticals, electronics manufacturing
units, mines and tunnels, workshop
buildings, and cinema/community
halls); special-purpose fans for
power plants, metallurgical indus-
tries, boiler industries, refineries,
radiators and heat exchangers, proc-
ess industries, cement plants, petro-
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