Flakt Woods Ltd - Products and Company Details

Energy efficient fan motors make significant savings

In order to tackle rising energy prices and developing Part L legislation, Flakt Woods has created its e3-Line concept which includes its JM range of fans, fitted with EFF1 motors for greater efficiency. The e3-Line concept offers products and complete systems designed to provide excellent indoor air quality efficiently. Flakt Woods has produced models for calculating the annual energy consumption for individual fans, allowing customers to calculate energy cost, and consumption of Flakt Woods' fans by calculating the Life Cycle Cost for any fan. In field tests, replacing standard 18.5 kW motors with EFF1 motors has shown savings of 500 GBP per month per annum, claims the company.

New generation of fan

Flakt Woods has launched the Powerbox-Greasefighter kitchen canopy fan. The new fan features an externally located motor, enabling high performance extraction at high temperatures. Purpose-designed for commercial kitchen exhaust systems, the Greasefighter removes heat as well as odours, smoke and products of combustion. Greasefighter has a 'motor-out-of-airstream' which enables it to operate within a much higher ambient temperature – up to 80°C. The compact design of the system, combined with its housing construction of double skinned pre-fabricated mild sheet steel makes the product suitable for either internal or external mounting. The Greasefighter is also acoustically lined as standard and, the company claims is one of the quietest motor out of airstream canopy fan solutions available. Faye Young, external sales engineer at Flakt Woods commented: “As a result of tighter legislation, the system resistance in traditional canopy solutions is dramatically increasing. Filtration of contaminated air and odours means that fans suitable for use with carbon filters are required. Multiple outlet positions, at 90° to the inlet, potentially save up to two-three metres of ducting per installation�.