William Thomson

Howden Africa Holdings Ltd. designs, manufactures and supplies fans and blowers, rotary heat exchangers and gas cleaning equipment for utility and industrial applications. It operates through the following segments: Fans & Heat Exchangers, Fabrication Technology and Environmental Control. The Fans and Heat Exchangers segment focuses on air and gas-cooling technologies within the coal/gold mining and power generation markets. The Fabrication Technology segment includes the supply of welding equipment and consumables. The Environmental Control segment covers dust extraction and gas treatment technologies which reduces atmospheric pollution generated by industrial plants. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Howden UK Ltd. design and manufacture centrifugal fans and rotary regenerative heat exchangers. The company’s products include basic oxygen steel fans, bisector air preheaters, fgd booster fans, gas-gas heaters, heaters, quadsector air preheaters, trisector air preheaters, variax fans, sinter plant fans and submerged helium blowers. The company was incorporated on March 17, 1930 is headquartered in Renfrew, the United Kingdom.