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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Plumbing, heating, and cooling |
Founded | Rheem - Richmond, California, (1925 ) Ruud - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1897 ) |
Founder | Richard Rheem, Donald Rheem Edwin Ruud |
Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Area served | North and South America, Australasia, Middle East |
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Products | Water heaters, air conditioners, Household furnaces |
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Owner | Paloma Industries |
Number of employees | 13,000[1] |
Divisions | Rheem, Rheem Water, Rheem Air, Ruud, Raypak, Prostock, Eemax, Intergas, HTPG, Friedrich, De Jong, Richmond |
Website | www |
Rheem Manufacturing Company is an American privately held manufacturer that produces residential and commercial water heaters and boilers, as well as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. The company also produces and sells products under the Ruud brand name. It is an independent subsidiary of Paloma Industries.[2] What became Rheem started in 1925 as a supplier of packaging to the petroleum industry, and is currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. The company is one of the largest manufacturers of both water heating and HVAC equipment in the United States, and also produces and markets products in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, China, Chile,[3] Brazil, Canada, Iraq, Kuwait, Mexico,[4] New Zealand, Perú,[5] Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE, and Ukraine.[6]