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https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/aft...f0fff30954.html

After 58 years of supplying construction sites and businesses across the country with air compressors, the Sullair name is fading from the corporate landscape.

The parent company of Michigan City-based Sullair is rebranding the longtime air compressor manufacturer as Hitachi Global Air Power. It will continue to retain the Sullair branding on products like the Sullair Champion and Air-One.

Japanese-based Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems established the new company to bring together its global air compressor business and is implementing the corporate name change effective immediately. Champion Compressors, another company in Australia that Hitachi owns, also will be folded into the same Hitachi Global Air Power banner.

“We are the same organization, ownership, leadership and staff, but now we have a name that more clearly demonstrates Hitachi’s breadth of compressed air solutions, product lines and innovation that both Sullair and Hitachi bring to the market,” said President and CEO Yasuhiro "Charlie" Takeuchi said. “In today’s relentlessly transforming society, Hitachi Global Air Power is uniquely positioned to raise the bar on the value we deliver to customers through our comprehensive portfolio of compressed air products and solutions such as air as a service.”