Indoor air company Halton Group opens new R&D center for its Lahti plant in Finland
During 2020-2021, Halton will open the company's 10th product development center, the Halton Innovation Hub, on the grounds of its Lahti plant. The Hub will focus on the target environments of the company's Marine business: galleys and cabins, as well as energy production and industrial environments. In addition to physical demo facilities, the center will use VR technology to model solutions.The implementation project for the product development center is divided into three phases.
In the spring of 2020, the first section of the premises, with a focus on galleys, was completed. There,
The space in London’s famous Building Centre was created jointly by Halton, EDGE, Well FM, Helvar, Clivet, the Building Centre and Tieto Empathic Building, a human centric workspace concept developed by the Nordic IT company Tieto, bearing the joint project name The Wellbeing Experience. Halton’s contribution to the space consists of solutions which optimise indoor environment conditions based on user data and which enhance user wellbeing. The lighting, adjusted to people’s circadian rhythm, is integrated into the indoor air system. The space will be opened to the public and corporate
Halton will open a new US production unit of about 40,000 sq ft (3,700 sq meters) close to their existing plant in Kentucky. This will focus on the manufacture of air handling units, make-up air units and exhaust air pollution control systems for the needs of commercial kitchens. This will allow the current plant, with a floor area of almost 86,000 sq ft (8,000 sq meters), to focus on commercial kitchens’ hood and air distribution solutions. Expanding production to include air handling units is part of Halton’s new growth strategy, aiming at increased sales of the company’s customer-oriented
Halton, specialising in demanding indoor air solutions, was the indoor air partner for Oodi, Helsinki’s new central library and urban public space. Halton implemented an efficient yet silent and draught-free ventilation system that was embedded into the architecturally unique building. The solution’s acoustic properties were tested in advance in Halton’s product development facility in Kausala. Oodi is another chapter in Halton’s list of cultural building references in Finland and abroad.Indoor air systems in public premises have extra requirements such as silent and draught-free operation