Halton announces acquisition of Nelbud Services Group in the United States
Halton, the foodservice ventilation technology leader, has announced the acquisition of Nelbud Service Group, the leader in Fire Protection, Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning, Grease Trap Services, and Hood System repair.Mika Halttunen, Halton Chairman of the Board, stated, "Halton’s goal is to continuously add value to our customers’ business. Combining Halton’s technological expertise and Nelbud’s strong local service presence in many key markets gives us excellent opportunity to create better life-cycle value.”
In describing the acquisition, Nelbud CEO Michael Crafton said, “We are thrilled to
Technology leader in demanding ventilation, Halton Group, will begin providing their demand-controlled ventilation system, the Halton M.A.R.V.E.L, to commercial kitchens as a service which makes its benefits more conveniently available to more food service operators, such as restaurants, by minimizing the capital cost of the system.The Halton M.A.R.V.E.L system, connected via IoT, helps ensure continuous operation and predictable expenses in professional kitchens through predictive maintenance, and can significantly cut their energy costs and carbon footprint. Commercial kitchens use around
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,
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"As the epidemic continues, people will need to work and study in shared facilities, and move around and shop in public and commercial buildings as safely as possible. Individual behaviour and measures are very important in this regard, but experience shows that human
Through the KEKO ecosystem project, leading organisations in their sector are combining their expertise to promote the use of real estate data. Halton, a founding member of KEKO, is contributing its leading expertise in indoor air systems and integrated human-centric lighting solutions to the project. The company aims to safeguard wellbeing in challenging indoor environments by making conditions adaptive to the needs of building users.Growing urbanisation is creating demand for better management of human-centric indoor environments and the functionality and eco-efficiency of buildings.
Halton Group’s biggest professional kitchen ventilation project in Korea to date will be delivered to Jeju City’s new landmark and tourist resort opened in 2019, the Jeju Dream Tower. Halton’s delivery covers UVI and UWI kitchen hoods equipped with the company’s patented technology, air-cooling cold mist hoods and ventilated ceilings with integrated human-centric lighting. All these products have UV technology for removing grease particles. The delivery will take place from December 2019 to March 2020 and is worth EUR 0.9 million.Halton won the tender thanks to the technical qualities and
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 Group has agreed to acquire the Dutch MIWO Luchtbehandelingstechniek B.V. that has solid experience in delivering turnkey indoor air solutions especially for chain restaurants in the Netherlands. The company is the second acquisition in the field for Halton during the past two years. The contract for the acquisition was signed on 12 June.Chain customers have proved to offer good growth potential for Halton's Foodservice business in North and South America, Asia and Europe. This acquisition provides Halton with new opportunities for developing chain customer relationships in the Dutch
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
Inoroom™ will supply all of the operating rooms for the new Kymenlaakso central hospital under construction in Kotka. The agreement concluded with Carea Sairaalat Oy covers 12 high-quality general operating rooms for demanding surgery and two hybrid rooms equipped additionally with large imaging devices. Inoroom was awarded the winner of public tendering out of competing takeover bids of the three finalists. The agreement was signed on 3 September 2018.The planning of the implementation will commence immediately, and the tight installation phase will take place on the site from March to
Halton Group, a global indoor air company, has acquired the business activities and product design rights of LCSystems Inc., a family company from Kentucky in the United States that manufactures supply and exhaust air equipment for professional kitchens. The acquisition makes the company a part of Halton's Foodservice business that specializes in professional kitchen environments. In 2017, Halton delivered professional kitchen indoor air solutions to some 6,000 locations around the world.In recent years, Halton has been systematically working to expand its range of professional kitchen
Halton invests approximately EUR 1 million in their Béthune factory research and product development facilities and the show kitchen environment that is unique in the world, enabling the company to test their indoor air technology widely and as a part of other professional kitchen technology. The project is a part of the more than EUR 4 million investments into Halton’s operations in France since 2016. Bethune’s renewed facilities will be opened for customers on 31 May 2018.The new professional kitchen environment in the Béthune factory is an example of particularly demanding show kitchen