Chennai

Nadi Airtechnics Pvt Ltd, a leading manufacturer and exporter of industrial fans, has enhanced its production capabilities with an investment of ₹15 crore. The Chennai-based company is also venturing into the carbon and hydrogen capture sectors, expanding its broad portfolio of mid-sized and heavy-duty industrial fan applications.

The company’s manufacturing plant near Chennai has expanded by 40 percent, taking its total area to 140,000 square feet. This expansion is expected to increase production capacity from 450 to 600-650 ventilators per month.

“With this additional space, we are streamlining our assembly, testing and painting processes, areas that were previously bottlenecks. Each fan is thoroughly tested for several hours to ensure reliability before leaving our factory. Our new paint shop, equipped with drying ovens, allows us to paint throughout the year, unaffected by monsoon conditions, enabling us to deliver products more efficiently,” said JB Kamdar, Chairman and Managing Director. General Manager of Nadi Airtechnics Pvt Ltd.

As part of its expansion, the company is launching a new assembly line called ‘Pink Bay’, which will be run entirely by specially trained women from the local community. “For the first time, women will be trained and employed in workshops, traditionally dominated by skilled male workers, to manufacture high-quality industrial fans for Indian and American railroads. Initially, 10 women will be deployed to Pink Bay, and there are plans to increase this number to 30 over time,” he added.

The investment will also include the installation of 300 kilowatts of rooftop solar to meet 50 percent of the company’s energy needs, with plans to increase this figure to 100 percent in the future. With this expansion, the workforce is expected to increase from 210 to 300 employees.

Air capture

Aaron Saldanha, chief operating officer of Nadi Airtechnics US LLC, highlighted the company’s foray into emerging segments such as carbon and hydrogen capture technologies. “We have designed specialist fans for both sectors and have supplied fans for the hydrogen segment. For carbon capture, we provide axial fans for direct air capture and centrifugal fans for point source capture, which are used in industries like cement, steel and food processing. Essentially, wherever there is a chimney or chimney emitting fumes, our fans help draw those fumes into the carbon capture systems, allowing cleaner air to be released,” he explained.

Besides railways, Nadi Airtechnics serves a wide range of industries including automotive, food and beverage, textiles, steel and cement. The company also supplies high quality fans for nuclear power plants, where reliability is paramount. Recently, Nadi supplied post-accident hydrogen removal fans for nuclear facilities, following the Fukushima disaster, making it mandatory to install such fans to prevent the buildup of hydrogen. hydrogen. Nadi is currently the only company in India authorized to supply these ventilators, having already delivered 73 units, with more orders in the pipeline, Kamdar noted.

Last year, Nadi Airtechnics had a turnover of ₹120 crore and aims to reach ₹150 crore this year, with ambitious plans to reach ₹200 crore by 2027.