The Heat Tax: Study Shows Industrial Airflow Offsets Extreme Heat Strain on Factory Floors
Big Ass Fans, a Madison Air (NYSE: MAIR) brand, today branded the 'Heat Tax' — the unbudgeted productivity and turnover cost factories pay when facilities run hot — backed by field research from UC Berkeley and the University of Sydney. The study monitored 30 factory workers at two unconditioned Baton Rouge, Louisiana plants and found industrial fans made conditions feel 10 degrees cooler; 79% of workers said they felt more effective with fans running and 100% called them workplace-important. Company market analysis cited in the release says fewer than 20% of U.S.
Key figures
- Study sites
- two manufacturing facilities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Study duration
- two three-week periods in spring and summer 2025
- Workers monitored
- 30
- Cooling effect degrees
- 10
- Cdc fan guidance threshold
- 90°F
- Who fan guidance threshold
- 104°F
- Labor capacity loss peak heat
- 30% to 50%
- Workers citing fans important
- 100%
- Workers reporting more effective
- 79%
- Energy savings vs conventional ac
- 20 to 30 times less energy
- Productivity loss per degree above 75 F
- 1% to 2%
- Us industrial facilities with conditioned air
- fewer than 20%
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