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Bigger, quieter, greener: High-volume low-speed fans see rising demand in warming Singapore
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- Initially met with scepticism, HVLS fans gained traction in schools after a successful installation by Spectra Instruments, better known by its brand, Spacefans.
- HVLS fans are now widely used in public spaces like MRT stations and hawker centres due to their uniform air flow, low noise and energy efficiency. They are also used for hybrid cooling within air-conditioned spaces.
- Local brand Gracezone, which designs and assembles its own fans, said it will focus on serving the premium market with custom designs and good after-sales service, as more made-in-China fans enter the market.
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SINGAPORE – “Don’t be stupid.” That was the blunt response Mr Loo Kin Sang got when he tried to sell a huge but slow-spinning ceiling fan to a school’s operations manager.
The founder of Spectra Instruments, now better known by its brand Spacefans, was himself a sceptic when approached to be the first local distributor of these cooling giants – known as high-volume low-speed (HVLS) fans – for an American company in the early 2000s.
