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Clarage, the traditional name in centrifugal fan design, started operations in the
United States in 1874. After more than 120 years in business, Clarage has hundreds
of thousands of fan installations for virtually any industrial application, such
as power plants and petrochemical complexes. Clarage's specialty is designing and
engineering custom, built-to-specification, critical service industrial and commercial
centrifugal fans, blowers, dust collectors, air moving equipment, exhausters, and
ventilators. Clarage supplies fans for applications such as boiler mechanical draft
service (forced draft and induced draft), process gas, fired heater draft for petroleum
and petro-chemical service, mine ventilation and incineration system ID (1000°F
operating temperature). Fans are also supplied for high static pressure applications,
such as in cement and steel plants, with heavy particulate loading that requires
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Pulaski, TN Headquarters
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Installation of large two-stage fan assembly
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Repair and Rebuild
Clarage provides replacement parts for all of the fan equipment supplied over the
years through the use of an extensive archive library that contains original order
records and drawings. Additionally, Clarage can repair, rebuild or upgrade fans
regardless of the original manufacturer. Clarage has routinely reviewed the operating
performance of installed fans and has engineered material and performance upgrades
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Field Service
Clarage's field service capabilities include:
- Erection and start-up of new equipment
- Field laser alignment and balance
- Conducting performance testing according to industry standards
- Fan performance enhancements
- Resonance testing
- Finite element analysis
- Torsional and lateral analysis
- Mechanical run and performance testing
- Fan installation and start-up
- Balancing in-place
- Conformance to API 673 & 560 specifications
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Company History
The newest addition to Twin City
Fan Companies, Ltd. also has the oldest name. Thomas Clarage and Charles
Bird founded Clarage in 1874. The company manufactured industrial fan equipment,
horizontal steam engines and gray iron castings. In 1912 the company changed its
name to Clarage Fan Company. Additional designs of industrial fans and blowers were
added to the product line. Eighteen years later, Clarage introduced air conditioning
equipment to their expanding list of products and discontinued manufacturing steam
engines. In 1957, Clarage nearly doubled the size of their manufacturing plant in
Kalamazoo, MI, increasing from 200,000 square feet to 340,000 square feet. Clarage
was acquired by Twin City Fan Companies, Ltd. in 1997. In 2007, manufacturing was
moved to a new 58,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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