Howden’s core products are used in many key industries and industrial processes.
Fans are used in industries where large volumes of air or gas are required to be moved at low pressures.
Rotary heat exchangers are used to transfer heat between air and/or gas streams, primarily in fossil fired power generation and petrochemical steam raising plants.
Compressors are used to supply specialised gases in a wide variety of industrial and petrochemical processes.
End user segmentation is strongly influenced by the availability of natural resources in particular regions. The global spread of coal, iron ore, oil and gas deposits provides Howden with a global customer base in a diverse range of industry sectors.
Much of the equipment supplied by Howden has an expected life of between 30 and 40 years, and provides significant opportunities for retrofits, spares and servicing by Howden.
The global end-user market segments and the products supplied by Howden include:
- Power generation – fans and rotary heat exchangers for boilers and emission control, such as Flue Gas Desulphurisation (‘FGD’) plant and denitrification; cooling fans for dry cooling systems;
- Petrochemical plant and oil and gas – fans and compressors for refineries, ethanol and methanol production, and other processes; compressors and specialised fans for offshore platforms; cooling fans for heat exchangers and condensers;
- Steel – heavy duty fans for iron ore beneficiation plant (sintering and pelletising), and for basic oxygen and electric
arc furnace steelmaking; - Mining – high integrity fans for coal, gold and other underground mining, and cooling systems for very deep mines;
- Cement – main process fans for cement manufacturing plants;
- Wastewater – aeration blowers for the wastewater treatment industry; and
- Industrial processes – fans and compressors for a wide range of industrial processes including pulp and paper, smelting and sulphuric acid.