page_title: OASIS International
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: OASIS International / History
caption_attribution_description: English: D. A. Ebinger Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio.
context_page_description: OASIS International is an American company that manufactures drinking water coolers, non-refrigerated water fountains, bottled water dispensers, and dehumidifiers in 80 different countries in North America, Asia, and the EMEA regions. Its head office is in Columbus, Ohio and it has production facilities in Mexico and Poland. It also has its European headquarters in Ireland and a permanent office in Shenzhen, China.
  The company's history dates to 1910, when it was founded as the "D.A. Ebinger Sanitary Manufacturing Company," and later known as "EBCO." It renamed itself "Oasis" after its popular product lines in 1996.
context_section_description: The company was founded as the D.A. Ebinger Sanitary Manufacturing Company in 1910 with its first warehouse located at 400 West Rich Street in Columbus, Ohio manufacturing toilet, sanitary fixtures, and plumbing supplies. After a series of changes in its product categories, it renamed Ebco Manufacturing Company in 1935 before developing into new categories such as water fountains, coolers, dehumidifiers, as well as refrigeration parts.
  The company began branding these products under the "OASIS" name in the 1940s. By 1950, it had employed 200 employees and had begun a major expansion of its facilities with a windowless air-conditioned factory in 1953. This was after expanding into the dehumidifier and juice dispenser product categories to a total of 290,000-sqft in 1960 at 265 North Hamilton Road. 
  In 1992, a 30,000-sqft manufacturing facility in Ireland was established for the production and distribution of its products in the European and the Middle Eastern market before it was renamed Oasis Corporation later in 1996 due to the popularity of its Oasis line of products. 
  By the 1990s, it had achieved having the majority of the market share of the bottled water coolers sold in the industry. It expanded to a new manufacturing facility in Poland in 2001 and subsequently acquired Sunroc Corporation in 2003, then the third largest bottled water cooler manufacturer, before having its assets acquired in 2005 by Patriarch Partners due to competition from lower-cost Asian competitors. It was subsequently renamed to OASIS International.
caption: Original factory established in Columbus, OH in 1910[12]
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