Howden Africa Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets specialized air and gas handling solutions worldwide. The company operates through Fans and Heat Exchangers, Environmental Control, and Fabrication Technology segments. The Fans and Heat Exchangers segment focuses on air and gas-cooling technologies within the coal/gold mining and power generation markets. It offers boiler fans, heat exchangers, site services, HVAC fans, standard and industrial fans and blowers, main surface fans, auxiliary mine fans, and centrifugal blowers. This segment is also involved in dust extraction on coal mines, mine cooling and heating, ventilation on demand, engineering, and application engineering activities. The Environmental Control segment offers dust extraction and gas-treatment technologies. This segment offers gas cleaning plants, furnaces, incinerators, process compressors, refrigeration equipment, water chillers, positive displacement blowers, and control and instrumentation products, as well as combustion engineering, waste water treatment, mine cooling and heating, engineering solutions, and application engineering services. The Fabrication Technology segment distributes equipment and filler metals for welding and cutting applications. This segment offers air gouging and exothermic cutting products, gas equipment, welding consumables and equipment, plasma cutting products and torches, welding automation and robotics products, and cutting automation products. It serves power generation, petrochemical, mining and minerals, construction, refrigeration, water treatment, steel and cement, transport, machinery, fabrication, ship building, and general industries. The company was founded in 1854 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Howden Africa Holdings Limited operates as a subsidiary of Howden Group Ltd.