Engineering Heritage
Founded in 2004 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Embraco began as a specialized compressor engineering workshop serving the Southeast United States food processing industry. Our three founding engineers brought a combined 45 years of experience from major OEM compressor programs at Copeland and Tecumseh, with a shared conviction that the industry needed a supplier willing to publish verified performance data rather than marketing specifications.
In 2008, Embraco opened its first dedicated scroll compressor production line, achieving AHRI certification for the initial EM-S series within 18 months. By 2012, the company had expanded to three manufacturing facilities — Charlotte (headquarters and scroll production), Monterrey, Mexico (hermetic and semi-hermetic lines), and Wroclaw, Poland (European distribution and screw compressor assembly). The Wroclaw facility received ISO 9001 certification in Q3 2013 and added ISO 14001 in 2016.
The 2018 launch of our R-290 scroll compressor platform — developed over a 30-month R&D cycle with $4.2 million in dedicated testing infrastructure — marked Embraco's entry into natural refrigerant systems ahead of the EU F-Gas Regulation phase-down milestones. Today, our 65-member R&D team holds 42 patents spanning scroll geometry optimization, VFD harmonic management, and low-GWP refrigerant charge reduction techniques.
With an annual production capacity of 7,500 compressor units, 20 service centers across 48 countries, and 550 employees worldwide, Embraco serves system integrators, OEM equipment manufacturers, and end-user facility operators across food processing, pharmaceutical cold chain, commercial foodservice, data center cooling, and industrial process applications.
