Colombia
Industrial cooling and ventilation in Bogotá
Honesty first: nobody in Bogotá is buying a cooler. The capital sits on a high plateau where temperature barely shifts across the year, and a company selling evaporative equipment here would be selling a remedy for a problem the city does not have. What Bogotá does have is a very large stock of tall distribution buildings, in Fontibón along the airport corridor, in Puente Aranda across the old industrial belt, inside the Zona Franca Bogotá and out in the newer parks at Funza, Mosquera and Tocancipá, where warm air gathers at a 12 metre roof while pickers work in the chill at floor level. Reversing that gradient with slow ceiling fans improves the working floor and cuts heating. The Sabana around the city is also one of the biggest cut flower export regions on earth, and its greenhouses and packhouses need controlled extraction far more than refrigeration.
Bogotá climate — the honest version
Bogotá stands at roughly 2,600 m on the Andean savanna where daytime readings hover between 19 and 20 °C all year and nights drop close to 8 °C, so there is no cooling season whatsoever and the air problems worth solving are stratification, stale air and moisture inside enclosed buildings.
Cargo reaches Cartagena or Barranquilla from Nhava Sheva in 28 to 35 days, then climbs roughly 1,000 km by road onto the Bogotá savanna, which usually adds three to four days after customs release.
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The complete range
All six Ayzair families, supplied in Bogotá.
Every product we make is available in Bogotá. 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 Bogotá.
Who buys here
Industries in Bogotá.
- Distribution and third party logistics
- Cut flower growing and packhouses
- Food and beverage
- Printing and publishing
- Pharmaceuticals and chemicals
- Plastics and packaging
Worth knowing locally
- Colombia distributes 110 V single phase along with 220 V and 440 V three phase at 60 Hz, so motors bound for Bogotá are built to order at 60 Hz and the control voltage is agreed before winding begins.
- RETIE is the governing electrical regulation and the installing engineer signs the installation off, so wiring schematics, motor nameplate data and the CE, IEC, LVD and EMC reports travel with every order to support that certificate.
- Air at 2,600 m is roughly a quarter less dense than at sea level, which reduces the mass of air any fan shifts, so fan counts for the savanna are calculated on altitude corrected figures instead of catalogue values.
Bogotá enquiry
Get a proforma invoice for Bogotá.
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.
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Answers
Supplying Bogotá — common questions
Cannot find what you need? Call +91 80871 10156 or WhatsApp us — an engineer, not a call centre, picks up.
Ask on WhatsAppDoes Bogotá need cooling equipment at all?
Not really, and we would rather say so. Daytime temperature sits near 19 °C throughout the year, so there is no heat load to remove. The value here is destratification: a slow ceiling fan pushes the warm layer sitting at roof level back down over the working floor, evening out temperature, drying condensation and reducing the energy spent heating tall buildings.
What do flower growers on the Sabana actually use?
Greenhouses and packhouses on the savanna need controlled air change without draught across the stems, so Hammer wall extractors sized to house volume are the usual choice, paired with inline duct fans for cold room lobbies and grading areas. Fan speed is staged rather than fixed, since nights on the plateau fall close to 8 °C and over ventilation costs product.
How does altitude change fan selection?
Air at 2,600 m is about 25 percent thinner than at sea level, so the same fan shifts less air by mass and the motor sees a lighter load. Volume flow figures are therefore corrected for altitude whenever a Bogotá layout is prepared, and extractor counts for greenhouses come out higher than an identical building would need down on the coast.
Nearby
Also supplied across Colombia.
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