Fans


  Manufacture: Airdex Corp
Website: www.airdexcorp.com
Company Description: Airdex Corporation, a quality manufacturer of fans and blowers, is a successor company to Torin Manufacturing (Canada). The first small manufacturing operation was started in Oakville, Ontario in 1945, and was privately owned and operated on a licensing agreement from Torin, Connecticut. Ten years later, in 1955, Torin took over control of this operation and built a new plant in Oakville, Ontario, which had the capability of producing a full line of fan and blower products. Forty years later this line of quality engineered products continues to be manufactured and sold by AIRDEX CORPORATION.

Manufacture: Carnes
Website: www.carnes.com
Company Description:

Wilbur R. (Bill) Carnes began to manufacture and sell his first products near the end of 1939. Bill and his family lived on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin near Lake Monona. His first employee was hired in January, 1940. Prior to starting the company he took a leave of absence from his position as a chemical salesman and developed a method to take metal shavings out of the oil coolants that he was selling. His first products were sump tank cleaning machines that were manufactured for use in machine shops, including the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois.