History
| 1912 | Inokuchi Type Machinery Office was founded and started production of pumps. |
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| 1920 | Ebara Corporation was established, succeeding Inokuchi Type Machinery Office. |
| 1930 | Started domestic production of centrifugal chillers (the Japan's first chiller). |
| 1935 | Started production of centrifugal chillers licensed by Carrier Corporation(USA). |
| 1937 | Supplied two sets of Centrifugal heat pump chillers to Kyoto Electric Light Building. |
| 1940 | Started manufacturing low temperature (- 18 to - 75 °C) centrifugal chiller. |
| 1947 | Supplied vapor compression type heat pumps (VRC) for salt manufacturing. |
| 1953 | Started production of hermetic centrifugal chiller, 3FW. |
| 1960 | Supplied the first heating tower centrifugal heat pump in the world to NHK Hiroshima Broadcasting Center Building. |
| 1961 | Started to develop development of absorption chiller. |
| 1963 | Started production of LW (LiBr/water) absorption chiller. Supplied the largest centrifugal chiller in Japan (1100 USRt). Supplied the largest low temperature centrifugal chiller in Japan (770 USRt. Temp.: - 10 °C). |
| 1966 | Supplied ammonia/water absorption brine chiller. |
| 1967 | Started production of double effect absorption chiller model 2LW. |
| 1969 | Supplied 2 sets of cascade type Centrifugal chillers for dual brine temperature (-80°C and -40°C) for special painting process of the SPACE SHUTTLE. |
| 1970 | Started production of Gas direct fired absorption chiller/heater. Supplied low temperature (- 40°C) centrifugal chiller for N2 gas cooling. Supplied centrifugal chillers (3000 USRt) for the World Exposition in Osaka, Japan. |
| 1971 | Produced the first absorption heat pump chiller in Japan. |
| 1974 | Started production of double effect absorption heat pump chiller. Supply of large equipment for district cooling & heating increased from this time on. |
| 1975 | Supplied total capacity of 12000USRt chillers, including heat pump chiller using seawater for the International Ocean Exposition in Okinawa, Japan. |
| 1979 | Started production of low temperature screw chiller. |
| 1980 | Supplied large model of energy-saving centrifugal chiller (0.65 kW / USRt). |
| 1981 | Supplied heavy oil direct fired absorption chiller/heater (1000 USRt). |
| 1982 | Received the Ota Award for development of a high-efficiency gas absorption chiller/heater. |
| 1983 | Supplied improved heating tower heat pumps to the Hikarigaoka Park Town. |
| 1986 | Supplied sewage heat pump chiller to the Ochiai Sewage Treatment Center. Supplied four centrifugal chillers (5000 USRt each) to the Dhahran Airport in Saudi Arabia. |
| 1987 | Supplied large chillers, including heating tower heat pump, for district cooling in Hibiya, Surugadai, and Hakozaki and so on. |
| 1988 | Supplied sewage heat pumps (3000 USRt) for district cooling in Makuhari. |
| 1989 | Started production of semi-hermetic screw chiller. |
| 1991 | Started production and sales of centrifugal chiller using environment friendly refrigerant R-123. |
| 1992 | Supplied record-breaking absorption chillers to Nishi-Ikebukuro (2000 USRt) and the new terminals of the Haneda International Airport (2500 USRt). |
| 1993 | Started supply of COH-BE-TSU (individual air conditioning) systems. Developed a super heat pump using COP = 8 (mixed refrigerant of R-123 and R-134a) that is the best efficiency in the world, as a result of research for NEDO's Moonlight Project. |
| 1995 | Started manufacturing and sales of ice thermal storage systems and units. |
| 1996 | Established a chiller manufacturing joint venture company (Yantai Ebara Air-Conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.) of Ebara Corporation and Yantai Moon Co., Ltd. in China. |
| 1997 | Started production of new RCD series absorption chiller/heaters. |
| 2001 | Supplied 177 sets of Module chiller to Singapore MRTN-E Line. |
| Sep. 2002 | The production & sales dept. of the Refrigeration Equipment & Systems Group divided from Ebara Corporation and started as Ebara Refrigeration Equipment & Systems Co., Ltd., aiming at integrated management of the refrigeration and heating equipment business. |
| Nov. 2002 | The refrigeration & heating service dept. of Ebara Techno-Serve Co., Ltd. merged to ERS so as to establish the integrated business organization for manufacturing, sales and maintenance. |
| 2004 | Model RFW steam absorption chiller released. ( High efficiency : Double absorption and Double evaporation cycle). |
| 2006 | Model RFW awarded Excellent energy saving equipment from Japan Machinery Federation. |
