Vent-Axia is celebrating 30 years as since its first T-Series fan rolled off the Crawley production lines in 1986.

This was the year Michael Jackson’s Bad album dominated the charts; Kylie and Jason were married in Neighbours; we watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on the big screen; heard about a new Channell Tunnell and watched Yuppies clamouring for the first mobile phones. 1986 was an impressive year for technology with Intel releasing its 386 microprocessor, the Rutan Model 76 Voyager becoming the first aircraft to fly around the World without refueling or stopping; and Chuck Hull patenting the first 3D printer.

In its first year, the T-Series became a market leader, dominating the commercial sector with fans being fitted in public buildings, banks, offices, prestigious department stores, pubs and clubs. Its reach was so far it even appeared in the classic 1986 film Aliens, proving it had future proof design!

Since then 1.4 million fans have been sold. Made in Britain, the popular T-Series has been manufactured at Vent-Axia’s Crawley facilities in West Sussex since its launch.

Pete Smith of Vent-Axia said: “The T-Series were known for their robustness and reliability from the start and they still are today. 30 years later, whilst the T-Series has evolved it is still firmly based on the original because good design does not age.”

A company with a strong British heritage Vent-Axia is celebrating 80 years this year as an industry leader and innovator. In 1936 its founder, Joe Akester, invented the world’s first electrically operated window fan.