Recently, Suella visited heat exchange manufacturers, Kelvion, at their Fareham site on Newgate Lane. As a globally leading organisation, Kelvion has provided solutions for almost every industrial application imaginable since the 1920s, specialising in customized solutions suitable for extreme environmental conditions.
Suella enjoyed a tour of the factory, visited the research and development department and met with the senior leadership team to learn more about the heat exchange sector and Kelvion’s future plans.
In 2020, Kelvion celebrated their centennial year, which also coincided with the ninetieth anniversary of their Fareham site. Despite having their headquarters in Bochum, Germany, Kelvion’s operations are predominantly centred around the 12-acre Fareham site where they employee 250 staff in the research, development and manufacturing of heat exchangers.
Kelvion’s heat exchangers are mostly used for supermarkets and farms for food chilling, pubs and restaurants for cellar cooling, data centres for cloud computing and the power industry for collecting heat from hot waste gases. However, they also cater to an enormity of other specialised markets. Suella was particularly fascinated to learn that Kelvion manufactured components for the Royal Air Force, including the fastest bomber of WWII, the de Havilland D98, known as the ‘Wooden Wonder’.
After seeing the manufacturing process first-hand, Suella met with Managing Director, Stuart Wood, and the senior leadership team to discuss their bold plans for the future. Suella was impressed by their positive strategies and targets to increase exports from Fareham to a vast range of new markets around the world.
Commenting, Suella said:
“Thank you to the Kelvion team for showing me around the factory and R&D site on Newgate Lane. It was amazing to learn more about the highly technical heat exchange market. I was thrilled to see such a key global player leading the way from right here in Fareham. It’s great to know that after 100 years in the business, Kelvion is making tangible steps to export their solutions to more and more markets across the world. I wish them every success and look forward to seeing them continue to grow.”
