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2025-04-22

Sullair China Hosts 2025 Distributor Conference in Chongqing

Sullair China successfully held its 2025 Distributor Conference in Chongqing on April 21-22 under the theme "Honoring Legacy, Shaping Tomorrow." The event brought together distributors from across China to strengthen partnerships and discuss market strategies.Key highlights Senior executives including Hideharu (Henry) Tanaka, Hideki Fujimoto and Yoshihiko Tachibana presented Hitachi Group's strategic vision for China's compressor business.Function heads shared business updates across sales, operations and support functions.The conference concluded with an awards ceremony recognizing top-performing distributors.The event reinforced Sullair's commitment to collaborative growth with its distribution network in China.

2024-08-26

Creating a New Splendor: HGAP-SZ's 2024 Annual Party Concludes Successfully

On August 22, 2024, the HGAP-SZ 2024 Fiscal Year Annual party and the Anniversary of Sullair brand in China celebration were successfully held. All colleagues gathered together to celebrate the grand event and embark on the future together.At this special moment, executives including Mike Aoki, the senior executive advisor of Hitachi; Henry Tanaka, the managing director of HIES; John Randall, President & CEO of HGAP; and Yoshi Tachibana, the General Manager of HGAP Suzhou, each took the stage to deliver their speeches. They thanked the employees for their dedication, acknowledged the company’s accomplishments in the past years, and extended heartfelt wishes for HGAP’s future.Mike Aoki, Senior executive advisor of Hitachi Henry Tanaka, Managing director of HIES John Randall, President & CEO of HGAP Yoshi Tachibana, General Manager of HGAP Suzhou At the evening party, everyone shared the joy of HGAP-SZ winning the "Best Employer Award in Greater Suzhou" and the "Stable Employment Award". These awards fully reflect the company's outstanding performance in employee care and social responsibility, as well as its excellent performance and good reputation in the industry.In addition, HGAP-SZ specially honored employees with service of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and even 30 years. Among them, Murphy Liao, who won the thirty-year service award, was invited on stage to share his experience and insights. His sincere words motivated all employees to contribute to HGAP’s future endeavors.

2024-08-23

Enduring Partnership, Opening a New Era : Celebration on the 30th anniversary of Sullair Brand in China

The 30th anniversary of Sullair brand in China was successfully held at HGAP-SZ on August 22nd, 2024.Three decades ago, Sullair brand started its business in China. From an initial team of just a few people to becoming a leader in the industry today, we have witnessed technological breakthroughs and endured the test of time.Driven by innovation and winning the market with quality, every step of this journey, filled with wisdom and sweat, has become an important milestone in the development history of Sullair brand in China.In 1994, Sullair China began to take shape in Shenzhen In 1995, Groundbreaking ceremony for Sullair Shenzhen factory In 1997, Opening ceremony of Sullair Shenzhen In 2002, Celebration of record production at Shenzhen factory In 2008, Opening celebration of Sullair Suzhou In 2008, First air compressor rolls off the assembly line at Sullair Suzhou factory In 2017, Sullair officially joins Hitachi Group In 2024, the 30th Anniversary of Sullair Brand in ChinaAt the celebration, Aoki san, Senior Executive Advisor of Hitachi Limited; Tanaka san, HIES Executive Managing Director & COO; Mr. John Randall, HGAP President & CEO, were all present. HIES President & CEO Takeuchi san joined via remote connection to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sullair brand entering China, witnessing this historic moment together.“Today is an important milestone as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sullair brand in China. We are grateful for the support from our partners over the years. We will continue to enhance our capacities, expand our business scope, and drive growth through sustainable development and digital transformation, connecting green products digitally to achieve greater success.”—Charlie Takeuchi, President & CEO, HIES“In the 30 years of vigorous development since the Sullair brand entered China, we have continuously adjusted, transformed, and built teams for future sustained growth. Having faced challenges from the pandemic and market tests, we have grown through overcoming numerous difficulties. Sullair will continue to focus on reliability, durability, and high performance as our foundation, centered on the customers, to build a more valuable future for the company.”—John Randall, President & CEO, HGAP“HGAP-SZ has now become one of the important enterprises in Suzhou Industry Park (SIP) High-tech zone. We eagerly look forward to HGAP-SZ continuing to root itself in SIP, bring more advanced concepts, quality products, and capital technology, continuously empowering the development and technological progress of SIP’s high-end equipment manufacturing, ushering in an even more brilliant next 30 years.”—Tang Hao, Party Secretary of Suzhou Industrial Park High-tech Zone & Free Trade ZoneOn the growth path of Sullair brand in China, the strong support of many partner is indispensable. For this celebration, we also specially invited some distributors, suppliers, and customers to witness this together. Additionally, we established the “Outstanding Contribution Award,” “Long-term Loyal Partner Award,” and “Strategic Cooperation Award” to thank them for their strong support and cooperation in technological innovation, market expansion and service upgrades, jointly promoting the progress and development of the industry.

2024-04-26

2024 Sullair China Distributor Conference successfully concluded in Wuxi

2024 Sullair China Distributor Conference was successfully held on April 25th, distributors across China gathered to review the past year's achievements and look forward to a new chapter of cooperative development. The theme of the conference was “It’s time to showcase...Capacity, New Value, Growth.”At the beginning of the conference, Mr. Yasuhiro Takeuchi, President & CEO of HIES; Mr. Hideharu Tanaka, Executive Director & COO of HIES; Mr. John Randall, President & CEO of HGAP, delivered opening speeches in succession. They shared insights on the future development trends of the air compressor market, combined with the company's strategy and vision for future development planning, and established common strategic goals with the distributors.Following that, Mr. Yoshihiko Tachibana, the new General Manager of HGAP-SZ delivered speech. He shared his years of experience in sales and service related to compressors and provided strategic guidance based on the company and market situation. He encouraged everyone to continue to work together in the new fiscal year and to meet the challenges of the market together.In the subsequent sessions, leaders from various departments took turns presenting on topics such as sales performance review and outlook, operational review and continuous improvement, and quality, legal, finance, channel management, engineering, products, and services. They showed how to provide new value to customers and achieve the company's growth objectives from their respective business perspectives.During the award ceremony at the conference, HGAP-SZ presented awards to outstanding distributors, thanking them for their efforts and contributions over the past year.In the following agenda, the leadership team and distributors engaged in in-depth discussions on sales, service, products, technology, and other topics. They established closer connections and laid a more solid foundation for the future development.

2024-03-21

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems (HIES) Named Mr. Yoshihiko Tachibana as New General Manager of HGAP Suzhou and Introduced Organizational Changes

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems (HIES) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Yoshihiko Tachibana as the new General Manager of Hitachi Global Air Power Suzhou Co., Ltd. (HGAP-SZ), effective from April 1st, 2024. This transition follows the relocation of the current General Manager, Mr. Natsuki Kawabata, who will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of HGAP in the United States.Mr. Tachibana brings a wealth of experience and expertise in the industry. He joined Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems (HIES) in 2004, where he had been primarily responsible for HIES's international sales of Hitachi-branded air compressors. Prior to joining HIES, Mr. Tachibana served as a sales support engineer for overseas customers, gaining valuable insights into different business cultures and practices.During his career, Mr. Tachibana has had the opportunity to work and lead teams in various oversea countries, including China (Shenzhen), the United Kingdom (London), and Thailand (Bangkok). In China, he played a critical role in transferring the test bench from Japan to Shenzhen; and led the subsequent training for local engineers to grow as the future representatives of the company for China market. In the United Kingdom, Mr. Tachibana oversaw the sales of components by actively visiting and approaching customers across Europe. His footprint covered more than 20 countries during his tenure. Moreover, in Thailand, he led the team and successfully doubled the sales revenues within six years.Mr. Tachibana will soon relocate to Suzhou, China. With his extensive international management experience and excellent track record, Mr. Yoshihiko Tachibana is well positioned to lead HGAP-SZ into the next phase of growth and development in China.

2023-05-08

2023 Sullair China Distributor Conference successfully concluded in Hong Kong

The 2023 Sullair China Distributor Conference was successfully held in Hong Kong. Distinguished guests from Hitachi headquarters, executives from Sullair, and Sullair China distributors gathered to discuss the theme of "Leading a Sustainable Future" and engaged in lively discussions.At the beginning of the conference, Yasuhiro (Charlie) Takeuchi, President of HIES; Hideharu (Henry) Tanaka, Executive Director of HIES; and John Randall, President of Sullair Global and Director of HIES, each delivered speeches and formulated a comprehensive strategic plan for the company's future development.Stephanie Roberts, Director of HIES Branding Dept, highlighted that the company's renaming represents a new beginning. The company will continue to provide highly efficient compressors and industrial Internet solutions to help customers achieve better energy efficiency and operational effectiveness.Looking ahead, Hitachi Group Air Power (HGAP) will continue to develop innovative technologies, strengthen digital technology empowerment, and firmly adhere to green and low-carbon production and management concepts, providing more valuable compressed air solutions. Kawabata Natsuki, General Manager of Sullair Asia, provided strategic guidance and implementation suggestions based on the company's actual situation, opening up a new chapter of development.Following that, the representatives from Sullair China provided comprehensive insights on the company's sales performance review and outlook, operational review and continuous improvement, as well as quality, legal, financial, channel management, engineering, products, and services.

2022-06-30

WORKING TOGETHER:2022 Sullair China Distributor Conference Successfully Concluded

On June 27, the 2022 distributor conference of Sullair China was grandly held at Changsha, China. Nearly 100 distributors from China gathered together to review the brilliant achievements of Sullair in 2021 and discuss the ambitious strategy for 2022.Due to the pandemic impact on travel, two senior executives from Hitachi——the President and Director Charlie Takeuchi san and the Managing Director of Global Air Compressor Operations group Henry Tanaka san recorded a speech for the conference. In the video, Hitachi executives encouraged Sullair distributors to be more innovative and flexible to meet the new challenges of the changing markets.John Randall, Sullair global President and CEO delivered the opening speech virtually via video conference. John expressed his appreciation for Sullair China’s achievements in the past year and his expectation back to China to visit the distributors. Kawabata Natsuki san, General Manager of Sullair Asia extended a warm welcome to all the distributors. In his speech, Kawabata san highly recognized the huge growth of Sullair China in 2021, and proposed new targets and strategies for the new year.Following the management’s speech, the representatives from Sullair China sales, operation, quality, finance, marketing, channel management, legal, engineering and product management team also made the presentations.

2021-06-08

2021 Sullair Distributor Conference Themed “Transformation” Successfully Concluded

On May 24-26, 2021, Sullair held the distributor conference themed “transformation” at Renaissance Sanya Haitang Bay Resort of Hainan. On the day of the conference, over 150 Sullair distributors from China gathered to look back over the past, and look forward to the future for embarking on a new journey together.The goal of the conference’s theme “Transformation” is to let Sullair be more customer-centric, to have our partners work together for sustainable society and win a big future together.At the beginning of the conference, Mr. John Randall, who is now the President and CEO of Sullair Global, and Mr. Kawabata Natsiki, the new General Manager of Sullair Asia, made speeches from a strategic perspective. The two leaders gave a unique insight about the current market environment and the future strategic planning of Sullair. All the distributors are also ready to help Sullair Asia to make another splendid achievement.After the management’s opening speech, the representatives from Sullair sales, operation, quality, finance, channel management, legal, engineering and product management team also made speech and delivered the latest development status and products of Sullair.Products showcase were also arranged during the conference. The new products with the whole downstream treatment products show to the distributors how the components work with each other to match supply to system demand perfectly, and improve the production efficiency and save the energy.

2020-11-09

Relocation of Sullair Shenzhen

Sullair Shenzhen relocation ceremony was held in Shenzhen on November8,2020.Sullair invited some key accounts and distributors in southern China to attend the ceremony.Mr. John Randall, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sullair Asia, made a wonderful speech on behalf of the management. John reviewed the achievements of Sullair in the past, looked forward to the bright future, and expressed his sincere gratitude to our partners over the years.In the opening speech, John made a detailed explanation of Sullair’s relocation: "After the transformation, Sullair Shenzhen will retain the compressors and spare parts sales, after-sales service and other relevant support departments, and will take more focus on serving the South China market."And then, John and 4 representatives of the key distributors in South China held a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony. There was also a special session during the event. The authoritative media “Compressor World” interviewed Mr. John Randall, General Manager of Sullair Asia, and Mr. Yang Jian, Sales Deputy General Manager of Sullair Asia, about the relocation arrangements of Sullair. During the interview, John and Yang Jian answered questions about Sullair’s strategic development and future plans.

2018-12-14

“Maintain quality and pursue intelligence” - Sullair Asia President Sean Xie gives interview at bauma China

Construction machinery trade fairbauma China was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from 27 to30 November, 2018. The advanced technologies and innovative equipment displayedat the Sullair booth attracted a large number of visitors throughout thefour-day event.Sullair exhibited a number of newmachines during the expo, including a 700RH model and a 1300 model largeportable air compressor equipped with smart controls, the OFD1550 portable oilfree air compressor, and the PTO12XH unpowered accessory air compressor.The Sullair 700RH and 1300 portablediesel air compressors now come with smart controls in place of the traditionalmechanical controls, allowing for more precise control of the machine andfaster response times. This in turn helps improve efficiency and reducesoverall diesel consumption. In addition, thanks to the multiple controlprograms available for these products, a single air compressor can provide theright air volume and pressure for a variety of working scenarios.Such powerful functionality did not gounnoticed by the media at the event. Sullair Asia President Sean Xie providedmore information about Sullair's products and future developments in aninterview.He said, “The extreme functionality ofSullair’s air compressors means that air volume and pressure can be guaranteedeven at 5,000 meters above sea level. While maintaining the machines’traditional strengths, we’ve also introduced the smart control programs I'vepreviously mentioned, making the 700RH one of the top models industry wide interms of air volume. Meanwhile, the 1300 model covers several working featuresthat are included in the 1100XHH, 1200XXH and 1300XH models. Aside from this,the OFD1550 oil free portable air compressor is fitted with a Sullair dry screwtwo-stage air end to provide 100% class 0 oil free air at any time to meet theneeds of complex and sensitive working environments.”In line with China’s increasinglystringent emissions standards and environmental requirements, the Sullair 700RHand 1300 diesel portable air compressors are more efficient and consume lessdiesel, helping improve competitiveness in the construction and drillingaccessory fields, while also greatly reducing clients’ construction costs overthe long term. Sean Xie mentioned that the oil free portable machines are inhigh demand in Southeast Asia, which will further grow Sullair’s business inthe energy and chemicals sectors. The OFD1550 oil free portable air compressorexhibited at bauma China was flown in all the way from the Sullair headquartersin the US. The machine takes a further step forward by meeting T4 emissionsstandards and is one of the top machines on the global market.In July, 2017, Sullair formally joined the Hitachi Group,which launched a powerful new partnership. Hitachi Group has been focused onthe information technology sector for several years and is a world-leader indigital technologies and IoT. Sean Xie said, “We hope that with this advantage,Sullair can gradually improve its digitalization of client equipment files andclient data to lay the groundwork for the creation of a big data platform andpave the way for greater cost efficiencies for clients. Going forward,Sullair’s many machines will be connected so that air compressor performancecan be monitored and preventative maintenance carried out. Sullair keepsimproving the capabilities of its product development teams and working tocreate industry-specific solutions, while maintaining and improving theproducts’ existing strengths, including performance, convenience, and the levelof automation. In a discussion about the impact of the US-China trade waron Sullair, Sean Xie said that the company is facing the objective challengeswith confidence and determination, noting, “Sullair plans to broaden its incomesources and decrease expenditures through cost optimization and technicalinnovation, which will offset some of the impact of the trade war. At the sametime, comprehensive preparations have been made for any problems that mayarise.” In this regard, Sean Xie is optimistic about Sullair’s prospects forgrowth in 2019. “We are confident that by rolling out our new products,promoting our brand, and managing our operations efficiently, we can maintainour current trajectory of strong and sustainable growth. Bauma China is one of the most significant events in theindustry calendar and this year’s fair was very fruitful for Sullair. Thenumber of visitors to the Sullair booth reached a record high, with an averageof more than 300 people welcomed to the stand on both of the first two days.Sullair has attended the event for many years now and Sean Xie confirmed thatthe company will continue to attend in the future.