JohnBean.com builds automated equipment for balancing & aligning automobiles
Title
John Bean - Automotive Wheel Service Equipment
Description
Located in the heart of America, the modern John Bean plant in Conway, Arkansas houses manufacturing facilities as well as the North American sales and marketing offices.
John Bean is one of the world's leading brands of automotive wheel service equipment. The company's roots began with a retired inventor, John Bean, in 1904. He founded the John Bean Spray Pump Company. When the company merged with a nearby food machinery company, it became the Food Machinery & Chemical Company (FMC). In 1996 Snap-On Corporation acquired the automotive equipment division from FMC and renamed it John Bean honoring the original founder.
From the start, John Bean was a pioneer in innovative technologies to meet the growing demands of the ever-growing automotive industry. During the early 1900's John Bean's state-of-the-art pressure pumps were often used as portable fire fighting pumps. When the pumps were mounted in trucks, one of the earliest motorized fire trucks came into being.