Brazil
Industrial cooling and ventilation in Manaus
The Zona Franca de Manaus exists because tax incentives made it worth assembling goods a thousand kilometres up a river. Consumer electronics, motorcycle assembly, two wheeler components, injection moulding, concentrate and beverage plants and white goods lines fill the Distrito Industrial south east of the centre, and the workforce in those buildings is large, seated and working to line speed. The climate is the hardest part of the job. Air on the floor is warm and saturated, roof sheets radiate all afternoon, and any hall relying on louvres alone becomes unbearable by mid shift. Buyers here deserve to be told plainly that evaporative cooling is the wrong purchase: saturated air cannot absorb more water, so a cooler returns damp and noise instead of relief. What does work is moving and replacing air, with large ceiling fans over the assembly lines and high capacity wall extractors dragging the roof heat layer outside.
Manaus climate — the honest version
Manaus sits inside the Amazon basin where daytime temperatures hold near 33 °C and relative humidity stays between 80 and 90 percent in every month of the year, leaving virtually no wet bulb depression at any hour, so adding water to the air achieves nothing useful for comfort.
Cargo routes through Santos or Suape and is then carried up the Amazon by coastal feeder or barge, adding 7 to 12 days of river passage and transhipment to a 28 to 38 day ocean leg from Nhava Sheva · EXW · FOB · CIF
6families
Complete range supplied here
34models
Every model available to order
10–20days
Production lead time
24hrs
Sizing and quotation
The complete range
All six Ayzair families, supplied in Manaus.
Every product we make is available in Manaus. They are ordered by how well each one suits the local climate and the industries here, but nothing is off the list.
Where we supply
Industrial areas of Manaus.
Who buys here
Industries in Manaus.
- Consumer electronics assembly
- Motorcycle and two wheeler assembly
- Plastics and injection moulding
- Beverage and concentrate production
- White goods and components
- River port logistics and warehousing
Worth knowing locally
- Amazonas is supplied at 220 V and 380 V on 60 Hz, and since each order is manufactured individually the 60 Hz winding is fixed at production stage rather than corrected on site afterwards.
- Goods entering the Zona Franca de Manaus clear under the free trade zone regime with federal duties suspended, yet INMETRO conformity and the import licence still apply, and that documentation remains the slowest part of any Brazilian order.
- River humidity is relentless, so bearings, fixings and electrical enclosures for Manaus carry additional corrosion protection and a higher ingress rating, and spares are worth buying with the first container because every replacement part repeats the river leg.
Manaus enquiry
Get a proforma invoice for Manaus.
Tell us the building — area, roof height and what happens inside — or name the models and quantities you already know you need. You will get USD pricing, your Incoterm, a container loading plan and a confirmed lead time within one working day.
Export desk
Answers
Supplying Manaus — common questions
Cannot find what you need? Call +91 80871 10156 or WhatsApp us — an engineer, not a call centre, picks up.
Ask on WhatsAppIs an evaporative cooler any use in Manaus?
No, and it would be dishonest to suggest otherwise. Air already holding 80 to 90 percent moisture cannot evaporate much more water, so a cooler placed in Manaus yields a drop of about one degree while pushing more damp into a building that already has too much of it. Ceiling fans and wall extractors are the only air equipment worth the freight here.
How much extra time does the river leg add?
Seven to twelve days on top of the ocean crossing, because containers are discharged at Santos or Suape and reloaded onto a coastal or river feeder for the run upstream. Sailings are weekly rather than daily, so one missed connection costs another week. Order well ahead of whatever shutdown window you intend to install in.
What suits an assembly hall in the Polo Industrial?
A grid of 16 ft or 20 ft fans over the lines gives even low velocity air across seated operators without disturbing light components, and 1250 mm or 1400 mm Hammer extractors on the leeward wall pull the roof heat layer out continuously. Send the building span, roof height and line layout and a fan spacing plan is drawn for you.
Nearby
Also supplied across Brazil.
Next step
Shipping to Manaus?
Send your requirement and we will confirm the freight route, transit time, landed cost and whether our equipment genuinely suits Manaus conditions — before you commit to anything.