One Hundred Years of Development of EBARA Company

Sep 18, 2024 | Global Companies in China | 0 comments

Ebara was founded in 1912 and has a history of 108 years. After more than a century of development, today Ebara has become one of the world’s largest pump product manufacturers and one of the world’s top 500 machinery manufacturing companies. Ebara has a national laboratory in Japan, undertakes national scientific research projects in Japan, and is also the theoretical research and standard compilation center for the Japanese pump industry. It has more than 16,000 employees, and its products are sold to 120 countries and regions around the world. In 2019, its sales exceeded RMB 34.5 billion.

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In 2006, EBARA established EBARA Machinery (China) Co., Ltd. in Beijing, which is a wholly-owned enterprise of EBARA Manufacturing in China. It currently has about 500 employees, dedicated to using advanced EBARA products to serve China’s development. Currently, it has established manufacturing bases in Beijing, Yantai and Zibo, providing customers with general pumps, customized pumps, water supply units, water treatment and other products and services.

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBARA Machinery (China) Co., Ltd., it is committed to the expansion of EBARA’s wind and water power business in China. Relying on EBARA’s 100 years of experience and technology accumulation, adhering to the “customization” concept, it provides customers with a variety of high-pressure pumps, large-scale pressurized circulation pumps and other products and high-quality services, which are widely used in power, water conservancy, municipal engineering, metallurgy, steel, petrochemical, seawater desalination and other industrial fields.

Ebara Machinery Zibo Co., Ltd. will strive to promote the development of local customers. As part of the Ebara Group’s corporate chain, Ebara Zibo also serves as a “Japanese overseas manufacturing base”. Our mission is to provide strong strategic support for Ebara’s global business.

Development History: A Century of Events

In 1912, Kiyoshi Hatakeyama founded the predecessor of Ebara, the Iguchi Machinery Office, where the Japanese Iguchi water pump was born. In 1920, the Iguchi Machinery Office was officially renamed Ebara Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Ebara has since embarked on the road of professional water pump business.

  • In 1921, Ebara Works was established and began manufacturing and selling pumps.
  • In 1930, the first centrifugal chiller was manufactured.
  • In 1938, a new factory was built in Haneda, Kamata-ku, Tokyo.
  • In 1941, a new Kawasaki factory was built in Nishikase, Kawasaki City.
  • In 1942, axial compressors and steam turbines for jet engines were trial-produced.
  • In 1952, the production of cooling towers began, and the first square cross-flow cooling tower was produced in 1955.
  • In 1956, the standard pump business was officially launched.
  • In 1961, it entered the waste treatment equipment business. The first grate-type garbage incinerator was delivered.
  • In 1962, Japan’s first circular counterflow cooling tower was produced.
  • In 1965, the Fujisawa factory was newly established.
  • In 1970, the production of water supply units began. The following year, the Central Research Institute was established at the Fujisawa factory.
  • In 1973, Japan’s first closed cooling tower was produced. In the same year, three of the world’s largest ultra-low temperature compressors were delivered.
  • In 1975, Ebara Industrial Mecanicos A Comercio was established in Brazil and a new Sodegaura plant was built. The world’s largest drainage pump station at that time was supplied with record-breaking large pumps.
  • In 1977, the first mobile ground incinerator for urban garbage was delivered.
  • In 1983, a high-pressure seawater jet pump was delivered to India.
  • In 1985, the Kawasaki plant and the Fujisawa plant were merged.
  • In 1986, the semiconductor industry was launched and the first Roots dry vacuum pump was delivered.
  • In 1989, Ebara delivered the first internal circulating fluidized bed boiler. In the same year, Ebara Italy was established. In 1990, the Environmental Business Headquarters was newly established.
  • In 1992, the first CMP equipment was delivered. In the same year, Ebara Environmental Equipment Co., Ltd. was established in Qingdao, China. The Environmental Medicine Center was established within the Environmental Business Division.
  • In 1994, it was integrated into three business divisions of wind power, environmental engineering, and precision electronics and merged with Ebara Infilco (Co., Ltd.).
  • In 1996, it was reorganized into the Management Division and four business divisions of information and communication, machinery, environmental engineering, and precision electronics.
  • In 1997, a new China headquarters was established.
  • In 1999, Guohua Ebara Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. was established in China.
  • In 2000, Ebara SERVICE (Co., Ltd.) and the general machinery sales department were integrated into Ebara Tech-Serve (Co., Ltd.) and Elliott Corporation was wholly acquired.
  • In 2003, 15 vertical axis centrifugal screw pumps were delivered to China.
  • In 2006, Ebara Machinery (China) Co., Ltd. was established.
  • In 2008, the Yantai production base of Ebara Machinery (China) Co., Ltd. was put into operation.
  • In 2009, we started selling the world-class ultra-efficient centrifugal freezer RTVF.
  • In 2012, the company celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Today, EBARA is committed to contributing to the realization of a “circular society” by using a variety of technologies based on its long-term accumulated hardware knowledge and expertise in purification, incineration, heat recovery, etc.

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