Producer
Ebara Corporation
Japanese industrial machinery manufacturer founded 1912. Revenue ~¥540B (2024). Produces centrifugal, submersible, and turbine pumps for water supply, wastewater, and irrigation. Operates facilities in Japan, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Italy, and USA (Elliott Company).
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Ebara Fujisawa Works →
JPFujisawa, Kanagawa · manufacturing
Ebara primary manufacturing facility since first standard-pump mass production (1965). Testing capability up to 400 HP (wet/dry pit). Produces agricultural, municipal, and industrial centrifugal pumps. R&D hub for pump efficiency improvements.
Ebara Great Pumps (Qingdao) →
CNQingdao, Shandong · manufacturing
Ebara China JV for high-volume pump production. Serves Chinese agricultural and municipal market. Part of Ebara strategy to manufacture at lower cost for Asian export markets.
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40%Precision Machinery (Semiconductor)
25%Energy (Elliott Company)
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Did you know2023
Ebara Corporation simultaneously supplies: dry vacuum pumps used in TSMC and Samsung semiconductor fabs (for CVD, PVD, and etch chamber vacuum maintenance); centrifugal compressors for LNG liquefaction trains (via its Elliott subsidiary in Pennsylvania); and water supply/irrigation pumps globally. A Japanese company is therefore embedded in chip manufacturing, the global LNG trade, and agricultural water supply through the same precision engineering competency. When Ebara's Fujisawa semiconductor equipment plant faces component shortages, TSMC fab tool uptime is affected. When Elliott's Pennsylvania plant has capacity constraints, LNG terminal operators face compressor lead time extensions. Water utilities that depend on Ebara pumps may be unaware their pump manufacturer also builds the compressors that cool the LNG that fuels the peaking power plants that keep the lights on during droughts that stress their water systems.
Ebara Corporation ↗Origin2023
Ebara Corporation was founded in 1912 in Tokyo by Senmaru Sugino, who started making centrifugal pumps for Japan's rapidly expanding municipal water supply and industrial development. The company name is the Japanese reading of the Kanji characters for the Ebara district of Tokyo where it was originally located. Over its 110+ year history, Ebara expanded from water pumps into sewage treatment, semiconductor equipment, and energy machinery through acquisitions and organic R&D. The most strategically significant expansion was the 1988 acquisition of Elliott Company (Jeannette, Pennsylvania) -- a US manufacturer of centrifugal compressors for the petrochemical industry since 1910. Elliott gave Ebara a world-class position in LNG compressors and refinery turbo-machinery, turning a Japanese pump company into a global industrial machinery conglomerate serving water infrastructure, semiconductor fabs, and LNG export terminals.
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