Fairbanks company receives orders from Navy

BELOIT — Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) has been awarded several purchase orders for its Ohio-based business unit, American Fan, to provide cooling and ventilation fans for 10 Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers.

The equipment will be installed on future destroyers. The equipment installed on the destroyers will include Gas Turbine Room Blowers (GTRB), Collective Protection System (CPS) fans for ventilation against nuclear, biological, and chemical substances, and Vaneaxial and Centrifugal fans to provide machinery room and general shipboard cooling and ventilation.

In August 2023, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded contracts to HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division and another shipbuilder for the fiscal years (FY) 2023 — 2027 multi-year procurement of DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, in turn, awarded American Fan contracts for seven DDG 51 class ships, DDG-141, DDG-142, DDG-143, DDG-145, DDG-146, DDG -147, and DDG-149. These contracts are among the first to support the Navy’s FY 2023 plan to construct ten Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers over the next five years.

American Fan’s products are manufactured in Fairfield, Ohio.

Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) builds, maintains, and services naval power and propulsion systems. For nearly 100 years, FMD has been a principal supplier of a growing array of leading marine technologies, OEM parts, and turnkey services to the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command, and Canadian Coast Guard. FMD maintains a manufacturing facility in Beloit, Wisconsin.