User:Nibbler2/Cincinnati Fan

Cincinnati Fan is a manufacturer of industrial fans and blowers, located in Mason, Ohio. Cincinnati Fan specializes in the OEM and CEM market, manufacturing fans up to 125 HP.

Cincinnati Fan began in 1956 with George Klee developing a dust collector in the basement of his house. Mr. Klee, a very knowledgeable fan person, had previously worked as a sales representative for the Aerovent Fan Company. In the early 1950’s, he started his own fan company, Dana Fan on Colerain Avenue in Cincinnati, which he sold a few years later.

The dust collector he developed in 1956, an all-aluminum model 33, was marketed to W.W. Grainger. Cincinnati Fan continues to sell this dust collector 50 years later, with only having 2 minor revisions.



Dust collectors and aluminum PB’s (pressure blowers) provided growth for Cincinnati Fan during the late 50’s. One such product, the vent-o-master, was a sign of the times, as it was designed to pull air into home bomb shelters in case of nuclear war. Fortunately, the projected growth for this product never came into fruition as the 1960’s missile crisis never developed into a nuclear attack on the USA.

Mr. Klee grew the business from his basement into an 18,000 sq. ft. facility in Golf Manor, Cincinnati, where in 1969 he sold the business to his daughter. Ken Keefe had been working for the company and was named company president after the sale.

Mr. Keefe expanded the fan line from the original cast aluminum products to fabricated steel products by purchasing, in 1973, the Hamilton Fan & Blower Company (previously the Dana Fan Company Mr. Klee started).

In 1974, the company moved into a 53,000 sq. ft. modern facility in Blue Ash, Ohio, due to considerable growth. The company went from under $1 million in sales in 1969, to almost $10 million in 1979. The development of the fabricated steel centrifugal fan line throughout the 1980’s complimented the Hamilton Fan line of axials and the Cincinnati line of aluminum products to the point that the company outgrew the Blue Ash facility.

In 1992, a new 125,000 sq. ft. facility was built in Mason, Ohio, where the company remains today.



Cincinnati Fan's top competitors are Twin City Fan and New York Blower. The company is a member of the Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA).