Ohio, Illinois, California, and North Carolina were the leading states in employment, employing approximately 33 percent of the total industry workers.
Total employment for the industry was 30,821 in 2000, an increase over the 30,153 employed in 1997. Of the 30,821 industry workers employed in 2000, 22,258 were production workers earning an average of $13.13 per hour.
The two most common types of fans and blowers are the axial and the centrifugal, which together account for about 45 percent of the industry's output.
In 2000, shipments in this industry were valued at $4.18 billion, a slight increase from $4.14 billion the previous year.
The success of this industry tends to coincide with the seasons of the year and with allergy seasons. Changes in weather conditions prompt consumers to buy products such as fans at certain times of the year.
You can purchase industrial fans and blowers by looking in your local yellow pages for a place that sells them nearby or craigslist.com for used ones locally
SIC 3564 applies to INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FANS AND BLOWERS AND AIR PURIFICATION EQUIPMENT.
More than 500 companies manufactured fans and blowers at roughly 600 locations in the late 1990s.
Here's a short article about the basics of centrifugal blowers: http://www.cincinnatifan.com/centrifugal-fans-blowers.htm
If you have a small yard I wouldn't buy industrial blowers. You can get home style blowers for this task. If you are lucky enough to have a huge yard here is a site you can purchase industrial blowers from http://www.globalindustrial.ca/c/hvac/fans/blower?infoParam.campaignId=T9A&gclid=COOY6t76yaoCFQEKKgodxXPwyg
Domestic fans, refrigerators, blowers, electric bikes, etc........
The top selling company in this industry in the late 1990s was Eagle Industries, Inc., of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1961, Eagle Industries reported total annual sales of $9.9 million and employed 7,000 people at the end of the decade.
The fan can be found in applications as diverse as huge blowers used to bubble air through sewage water and industrial waste, to street cleaners and industrial leaf blowers.