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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Ariel Corp. Celebrates 50th Year Of Manufacturing
Compressors For Energy Industry Firms Worldwide
MOUNT VERNON, OH.-After shipping its 50,000th compressor last summer,
Ariel Corporation now is celebrating another milestone in the company's history:
its 50th anniversary.
Ariel's 50,000th compressor, a KBB
model, will serve alongside four other
Ariel compressors in the second mainline
compressor station for the 800-mile Rover
Pipeline, which will transport Marcellus
Shale gas from Pennsylvania and West
Virginia across Ohio and into Michigan
and Canada. Ariel President and Chief
Executive Officer Karen Buchwald Wright
points out the project will use 39 additional
Ariel compressors.
The company shipped its first compressor in 1968, two years after its formation. The 10,000th went out in 1994,
26 years later, Wright relates. She says it
took only 18 years for Ariel to go from
its 10,000th compressor to its 40,000th,
averaging 10,000 units every six years,
and then only three years to jump from
40,000 to 50,000.
Wright notes that Ariel is named in

Jim Buchwald, who founded Ariel Corporation in 1966, stands beside the company's
first compressor. When the compressor
was located in 1997, it still was hard at
work after 28 years of service.

honor of the 1948 Ariel Four Square motorcycle that its founder, her father Jim
Buchwald, owned as a young man. "He
suggested the name Ariel to his partners
because the motorcycle was 'elegant in
conception, easy to maintain, and delightfully smooth in operation,' to quote

my dad," she says. "We try to replicate
those qualities in all our compressors."
According to Wright, providing those
qualities means designing each compressor
to be installed, operated and maintained
with ease, then building them with care,
precision, and a complete focus on quality.
She says the company's products are backed
by generous warranties, broad technical
and educational support, and rapid spare
parts delivery. Ariel's design teams work
closely with customers and monitor industry
trends to ensure their products can meet
future needs, Wright adds.
Thinking ahead is nothing new for
Ariel, she reflects. When Jim Buchwald
co-founded the company with Jim Doane
and George Woodman in 1966, he envisioned a compressor for gas gathering
that could take advantage of the 1,800rpm engines then in development. "When
those engines took longer to market than
expected, his original design was modified
to 1,400 rpm, but even that was revolutionary for its time," she recounts.
In the five decades since, Ariel has
become the world's largest manufacturer
of separable reciprocating gas compressors
for the energy industry, Wright says. In
the process, the company has expanded

Ariel Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Karen Buchwald Wright stands before Ariel's 50,000th compressor. In the 50 years
since its formation, the company has grown from a small partnership to the world's largest maker of separable reciprocating gas
compressors for the energy industry.

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