Company type | Limited Liability Company |
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Industry | Industrial Equipment Manufacturing |
Founded | 1965 |
Founder | Donald C. Hoodes |
Headquarters | Chicago, IL U.S.A. |
Key people | Charlie Takeuchi, President & CEO |
Products | Commercial and industrial air compressors. Portable Air Power for construction & mining, and Stationary Air Power systems for facilities. |
Owner | Hitachi |
Number of employees | 890 [1] |
Website | Sullair Global Home |
Sullair is a major American manufacturer of portable and stationary rotary screw air compressors designed for commercial and industrial use. Founded in 1965 in the town of Michigan City, Indiana U.S.A., Sullair has manufacturing facilities in Michigan City that distribute and service air compressor packages and systems worldwide. Sullair also has manufacturing facilities in Suzhou, Jiangsu and Shenzhen, Guangdong China that service the Asian and Australasian markets. Sullair also has offices in Dandenong South, Australia near Melbourne, and in Sunderland, United Kingdom that services markets in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and Russia.
In April 2017, Hitachi acquired Sullair for US$1,245 billion. [2]
Although the first commercial application of a fluid injected rotary-screw compressor was accomplished by Swedish industrial manufacturer Atlas Copco in 1957, it was Sullair's founding president, Don Hoodes, that introduced the technology to the U.S. domestic market in 1966. And by 1969, Sullair had developed an entire line of portable and stationary asymmetric rotary screw air compressors. [3] Hoodes purchased the use of the technology from Swedish firm Svenska Rotor Maskiner, whose retired chief engineer, Alf Lysholm, invented the twin-screw compressor in 1934 while developing gas turbines. The Lysholm design is also used in vehicles to force air induction into engine cylinders, supercharging both gas and diesel powered engines to boost engine performance. [4] Today, rotary screw compressors are the most popular type of air compressor in operation worldwide. Sullair's leadership decision to stay exclusively with the rotary screw technology when others still relied on piston driven technology, proved to be a valuable decision for the company, and was significant in its growth within the industry.
Today, Sullair has three primary product families -
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