A. O. Smith Corporation is an American manufacturer of both residential and commercial water heaters and boilers. It is North America's largest water heater manufacturer and marketer. It also supplies water treatment products in Asian market. The company has 24 locations worldwide, including five manufacturing facilities in North America, as well as factories in Nanjing, China and Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
In the past, A. O. Smith has had many other product lines. Among them, it was the largest bomb maker in the United States at the end of World War I. Smith ranked 74th among US companies in the contract value of World War II military production.
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History
The A.O. Smith Corporation was founded in 1874 by Charles Jeremiah Smith as C. J. Smith and Sons , manufacturer of baby strollers and bicycle manufacturers. They began to form steel pipes from sheet metal to create a bicycle frame. In 1895, the company was the largest bicycle parts manufacturer. In 1899, Arthur Oliver Smith, the founding son, developed the first pressurized steel skeleton frame in the world and they then began to create a framework for Peerless Automobile Company, Cadillac, and Ford Motor Company. In 1904, the company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as A.O. Smith Company.
In 1913, Lloyd Raymond Smith took over, and in 1914, the company introduced the Smith Motor Wheel, a gasoline-powered device for bicycles and in 1915, they started producing Smith Flyer. . i>, which is then sold to Briggs & amp; Stratton Company from Milwaukee. A year later in 1916, A.O. Smith was founded in New York, and in 1917, they began producing bomb shells for World War I.
In the 1920s, the company's engineers developed the layered welding rods they used in manufacturing until 1965, as well as the world's first automated frame-frame factory in the world, with the ability to frame every eight seconds, until 1958, the first welded, high pressure vessels used to purify oil, which the company produced until 1963, and the oil supply pipeline, until 1972.
In 1933, the company used the process of smelting glass into steel to create a large single-layered brewing tank. Over the next 32 years, they made over 11,000 glass-lined tanks. In 1936, the company patented a glass-coated water heater. Three years later, they began to manufacture massive water heater water, but diverted all production to war time use during World War II.
In 1940, the company acquired Sawyer Electric from Los Angeles, California, a manufacturer of electric motors. In 1942, he once again began producing bomb shells, as well as airplane propellers, undercarriages, torpedoes, and gourds. In 1945, the company had built 4.5 million bombs, 16,750 sets of landing gear, and 46,700 vane blades. They also built a nose frame for B-25 bombers, water heaters, jeep frames, and components for the atomic bomb project. In 1946, they built a residential water heater housing an area of ​​400,000 square feet in Kankakee, Illinois. In 1948, they entered the commercial water heater market after acquiring The Burkay Company from Toledo, Ohio. In 1949, the company began producing Harvestore, a steel silo integrated with steel, targeted at livestock and livestock operations.
In the 1950s, A. O. Smith acquired Whirl-A-Way Motors from Dayton, Ohio, and consolidated its electric motor manufacturing operations there. The division of the motor then introduces a hermetic motor, an essential component of air conditioning and a cooling compressor. Its water-heating division introduced commercial water heaters with the first glass coating, A. O. Smith Burkay B-65 , and then the company set up a glass fiber division to replace steel in many applications. It also expanded into supplying oilfield pipes and pipelines to service stations, eventually becoming Smith Fiberglass Products in 1986.
In the early 1960s, the company opened a commercial water heater and boiler plant in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. In 1965, the Motor division discovered a closed canopy, two compartment motors, a design that improved reliability in a pump pool motor by separating the switching components from the motor windings. In 1967, a fourth-generation Smith family member, Lloyd B. Smith, was elected chairman and chief executive officer of the company. In 1969, the company has been producing residential water heaters to 10 million, and in 1972, the company has expanded into Europe. In 1974, Conservation line of housing water heater was introduced. In 1976, the Motor division opened a factory in Bray, Ireland, to supply hermetic motors. In 1978, A.O. Smith began producing a storage tank, beginning with Aquastore, a tank fused with glass.
In the early 1980s, the Automotive Products unit had produced over 100 million passenger car frames, and 50 million truck frames, in Milwaukee, and soon after the company opened its first electric motorcycle assembly operation in Ciudad JuÃÆ'¡rez and Ciudad AcuÃÆ'Â ± a , Mexico. In 1990, he developed the first motor hermetic insulation system compatible with non-ozone-depleting R-134a cooling. In 1995, they acquired Peabody TecTank from Parsons, Kansas, allowing A.O. Smith to enter the dry bulk storage market. In the same year the company expanded into Asia by entering into two joint venture agreements: Smith Fiberglass Products and Harbin Composites Corporation to make fiberglass pipes for the Chinese petroleum industry, and Air Products Company and Yuhan Water Heater to make residential water heaters. In 1996, the Water Products division introduced a commercial water heater Cyclone XHE . In 1997, after 90 years in the automotive industry, A.O. Smith sold his Automotive Products Company to Tower International . In 1997, they acquired UPPCO, Inc. , making A.O Smith the world's leading manufacturer of C-frame subfractional motors. In 1998, they acquired the domestic motorcycle compressor business of General Electric, as well as the electric motor division Magnetek . By the end of the decade, Air Products Company has purchased its joint venture partner in Asia, and has opened a factory in Nanjing, China.
In 2000, AO Smith made a number of acquisitions, with the acquisition of State Industries, Inc. , and its subsidiary APCOM Inc. , Shenzhen Speeda Industrial Co. Ltd. and Athena Products , suppliers of hermetic motors for scroll compressor applications, and Changheng Group Changzhou, China, producers of motor fractional horsepower for HVAC applications, Taicang Special Motor Company, Ltd. , from Suzhou, China, Yueyang Zhongmin Special Electrical Machinery Co. Ltd. , Lochinvar Corporation , manufacturer of high efficiency condensing boilers for hot water and hydraulic heating applications, and in 2006, GSW Inc. water heater manufacturers for the Canadian market, and The American Water Heater Company , exclusive supplier of water heaters for Lowe, carries the Whirlpool brand. In 2009, the company entered the water purification industry with a new venture, A. O. Smith (Shanghai) Water Treatment Products Co. Ltd . In 2010, AO Smith opened a 76,000 square foot housekeeping water heater in Bangalore, India, and also acquired Takagi Industrial Company in North America In 2011, AO Smith sold its electric motor business to Regal-Beloit.
On August 8, 2016, A.O.Smith, acquired Austin-based Water Filtration Company, Aquasana (formerly known as the Solar System) from L 'Catterton for $ 87 Million.
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Brand
A.O. Smith operates under the following worldwide brand names: A.O. Smith (USA, Canada, China, Europe, Turkey, India, and Vietnam), GSW (Canada), John Wood (Canada), State Water Heater, American Water Heater, Reliance Water Heater, Lochinvar, Takagi, and Crafting Water Heater US.
Products
A. O. Smith Water Products Company is headquartered in Ashland City, Tennessee, where the largest water heater in the world. A.O. Smith Corporation manufactures the following types of water heaters for residential use: gas and propane, hybrids, electricity, no tanks, and solar. The company manufactures the following types of water heaters for commercial use: oil, gas and electricity, as well as boilers, storage tanks, and skid systems. They also provide the following accessories: pump tank, and expansion tank.
In 2015, A.O. Smith was awarded as the most widely used and quality brand among the Water Heater brand by Builder magazine.
A.O. Smith Foundation
The AO Smith Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization, founded in 1955, which has contributed nearly $ 35 million to qualifications of charitable, educational, scientific, literary and civilian organizations located primarily in communities where AO Smith Corporation has facilities. Support for the Foundation comes from a profit of A. O. Smith Corporation.
See also
- List of companies S & amp; P 400
- List of companies in United States
References
External links
- A.O. Smith - the company's official website
- A. O. Smith Water Heaters - official product website
- A.O. Smith India - the official company website
- A.O. Smith Vietnam - the official company website
- Country Water Heater - brothers brand
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