John Henry Foster is a leading distributor of Fluid Power Components and Industrial Air Compressors, and has been for over 70 years

John Henry Foster (JHF), Eagan, Minnesota, serves clients as a compressed air systems and fluid power distributor in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and northern Iowa. We are known for providing mobile service, compressed air maintenance, and design of electro-pneumatic controls. Educational training and air system seminars are also offered. We provide both capital and fluid power components consultatively, allowing us to partner with both the supply and demand sides of capital compressed air systems.

Watch our latest video (in action) to learn more about the supply end of our business:

JHF provides cutting-edge system integration
- We utilize the latest compressed air technology and vacuum equipment
- We perform energy-efficiency compressed air audits
- We design air compressor controls
- We provide piping design and installation
JHF performs compressor service and maintenance
- A mobile vehicle service program is available - we come service you!
- A large stock of compressor parts and inventory is available
- We have over 150 years of service experience.
JHF offers educational training and air systems seminars in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and northern Iowa.
- We offer onsite fluid power training seminars (and provide lunch!)
- We teach compressed air systems training seminars
- We hold maintenance and service seminars for your employees and compressors!
JHF supplies compressed air rentals
- We have a rental fleet of 16 electric compressors and vacuum pumps

Video - John Henry Foster Introduction
Differentiators
Providing both pneumatics and compressed air systems
Industries served
Awards
BBB - Better Business Bureau

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John Henry Foster provides both capital and pneumatic components

The John Henry Foster mission is to offer consultative sales versus commodity selling to our clients. By providing both capital equipment and pneumatic components consultatively, we have the ability to partner with both the supply side and demand side of compressed air systems. We are a leader in providing innovative solutions and consistent value to customers with this sales process and technical development. JHF is one of very few firms in the country that is structured to work with both sides of compressed air and has since the firm’s beginnings.

Industries in the 1940’s were smaller and companies could sell both, but today companies either focus on one or the other due to difficulties in training staff and manufacturers who tend to team with distributors who focus in their area of expertise.We anticipate industry drivers of our customers to be the exclusive provider by bundling our services into a single point of contact. By anticipating the needs of customers, JHF has expanded and further explored new areas, such as fluid cooling and vacuum markets. Another application we now focus on is identifying energy saving opportunities for clients, or an Air System Audit.

In order to gather the appropriate information to complete an analysis, we work with both ends of the compressed air system; the supply of air and the use of air. Working with each touch point to find energy loss, JHF can determine corrective actions and opportunities on both the production floor and the compressor room. JHF was one of the first distributors in the country involved in Air System Audits; we created and designed our own equipment, wrote analysis software and customized electronic control and monitoring equipment - another example of our innovation and resourceful approach.John Henry Foster also brings this resourcefulness to our mobile service agreement program and differentiates us from other providers. This service increases our market share by allowing our expertise to be brought directly to the customers’ air compressor rooms and plants, enabling us to deliver a short response time to problems, installation support, and preventative maintenance. We are also providing a local presence to the communities that we serve.

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JHF has a team of experts available to help with your compressed air systems and fluid power needs

John Henry Foster provides an infrastructure to support its account managers, who are educated, trained and focused in both arenas. We also have a technical support system consisting of teams of specialists in pneumatic component and capital equipment applications. These professionals range from master electricians, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, service coordinators, mechanics and piping experts. JHF has a significant advantage over companies that have one-sided representatives, as this infrastructure allows the flexibility to present and address the complete system from design through implementation, thus being involved with the entire client organization including; machine design, engineering, planning, production and plant management. Clients need their systems to function properly and reliability is vital to their production floors. Due to downsizing, clients do not always have the expertise to handle the systems. Their jobs usually depend upon the systems running continuously. Downtime results in lost revenue, quality control issues, product recalls, and diminished speed to market. Our strategic process brings additional value to the client by limiting their need to outsource costly expertise to administer the entire system. Clients that purchase air compressors for the supply side of the business typically have long periods of time before an upgrade or repurchase. Since we are a full service organization and pneumatic components are a consumable product, our account managers have the ability to utilize that time to work with the clients to fulfill their pneumatics and fluid power needs. This allows for continued contact and relationship building with the client, therefore we are then aware of the client’s growth and expansion plans. John Henry Foster is based on creating partnerships with clients and as their business needs change we align to bring new solutions

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JHF serves most industries

John Henry Foster is involved with virtually every industry since motion control technology and power generation is used in some form in industrial applications. The typical company JHF services ranges from smaller mid-sized industries to Fortune 500 companies. The industry type is very diverse, such as agricultural and meat processing plants to large industrial manufacturers, such as hospitals and printing facilities.

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Awards

2009

BBB: Highest accredited rating by the Better Business Bureau
Xcel Energy: Exceptional Energy Efficiency Award
Bimba: Manufacturing Trophy Winner

2008

BBB: Highest accredited rating by the Better Business Bureau
TRD Manufacturing: Sales Goal Achiever
Beach: Top Five Distributor – Excellence in Quality, Sales, and Service
CompAir: Star Achievement Award
Bimba: Platinum FRL Distributor

2007

BBB: Member of Better Business Bureau
Orion Award
Beach: Top Five Distributor – Excellence in Quality, Sales, and Service
Quincy: Top 10 Distributor
Bimba: Premier Distributor of outstanding sales and performance

2006

Quincy: Top Ten Distributor
Ultra-Air: Outstanding Sales Support with Ultra-Air Products
Bimba: Premier distributor of outstanding support of all products
Bimba: Highest Ultran Band Sales through Product Lifetime
Bimba: Most New Quotes Generated
Bimba: Bimba Premier Distributor
Beach: Top Five Distributor – Excellence in Quality, Sales, and Service
Foster: Top Five Distributor
ESOP: ESOP

2005

Quincy: Top Ten Distributor
Ultra-Air: Outstanding Sales Support with Ultra-Air Products
Bimba: Premier distributor of outstanding support of all products
Beach: Top Five Distributor – Excellence in Quality, Sales, and Service
Freelin-Wade: Outstanding Sales Achievement
Elmo Rietschle: Gold Award

2004

Quincy: Top Ten Distributor
Zeks: Sales Leadership Award
Bimba: Premier distributor of outstanding support of all products
Freelin-Wade: Outstanding Sales Achievement
Thomas: Silver Sales Achievement

2003

Quincy: Top Ten Distributor
Bimba: Outstanding Sales and Performance in 13 Categories
Numatics: Authorized Stocking Distributor

2002

Quincy: Top Ten Distributor
Bimba: Premier distributor of outstanding support of all products
Domnick Hunter: Partner Performance Award Goal Achievers
Thomas: Silver Sales Achievement
Thomas: Goal Buster 108% of Goal

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JHF is a member of the BBB — Better Business Bureau

John Henry Foster is dedicated to meeting and following the principles of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and became a member in November of 2007. By becoming a member, JHF agrees to follow the highest principles of business ethics, integrity and voluntary serf-regulation. The BBB champions the cause of consumers and holds businesses accountable to the highest bar for honesty in their advertising and selling.

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