Compression Systems (formerly Cooper Compression / Cooper Energy Services / Cooper Turbocompressor / Cooper), one of five organizational groups within

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, is a provider of reciprocating and

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compression equipment and aftermarket parts and services. Reciprocating compression equipment is used throughout the energy industry by gas transmission companies, compression leasing companies, oil and gas producers and independent power producers. Integrally geared centrifugal compressors are used by customers around the world in a variety of industries such as air separation, auto making, glass blowing, PET, petrochemical and chemical. Reciprocating compression was sold to

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in June 2014.

History

Compression Systems began in 1833 when Charles and Elias Cooper established a foundry in Mt. Vernon,

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. "Cooper", as it was known, was licensed to produce the

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in 1869 and entered the production of

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s in 1900. In 1929, Cooper merged with Bessemer Gas Engine Company, which was founded in Grove City,

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, in 1899. In 1958, Cooper diversified into the controls industry with the establishment of the En-Tronic Controls Group. Five years later, the company acquired the Ajax Engine Company, founded in 1877, and the Pennsylvania Process, founded to manufacture compressors in 1920. In 1965, the company branched out into electrical, automotive and tools and hardware industries. Two years later, it moved its headquarters to Houston and in 1968 began the Cooper Rolls joint venture with

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to market

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s.Cameron History
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, which was renamed Cooper Turbocompressor as part of Cooper Compression. One year later, Cooper acquired Enterprise Engine after market services business. In 1999, the rotating compressor business was sold to Rolls-Royce and Cooper Energy Services merged with Nickles Industrial Manufacturing and purchased Elliot Turbocharger Group, Inc. In 2001, Cooper Energy Services and Cooper Turbocompresor combined to form Cooper Compression, which was later named Compression Systems in 2005.

Compression System brands

Reciprocating compressors

Ajax Engines

Cooper Bessemer Cooper-Bessemer refers to the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation and the Cooper-Bessemer brand of industrial engines and compressors, manufactured in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Cooper-Bessemer Corporation was formed when C. & G. Cooper (founded in 1833) an ...

integral engines

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Turbine Specialties Engine Turbochargers (TSI) Compression Specialties (CSI) Texcentric Compressor Valves

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enterprise power engines and separable compressors Pennsylvania Process Separable Compressors

Centrifigul plant air compressors

Turbo Air

Joy Compressor Joy Compressors were first introduced in 1955 when the Joy Manufacturing Company hired four engineers and set them up in an office over a hardware store in Western New York. Within a short period of time, a farmer's field in Cheektowaga, New York w ...

Centrifugal engineered air and process gas compressors

MSG Turbo Air

References

Gas compressors