Competition record
Parker-Hannifin
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Parker-Hannifin is the motion-and-control manufacturer that also sold marine hose for loading oil. The European Commission fined that hose cartel, which included Bridgestone and Manuli.
Overview
Parker-Hannifin makes motion-and-control equipment: hydraulics, seals, filters, and engineered components used in machinery and aircraft. Marine hose is one product line inside that catalog. It is the heavy hose that loads and unloads oil and chemicals at a terminal. Buyers write a specification and take bids. They are not shopping a Parker catalog page.
The Commission fined Parker-Hannifin with Bridgestone and Manuli for a cartel in that hose. For Parker, the legal exposure sits in a single industrial line, not in the whole motion-control range. The meetings and the bid coordination were about who would supply a loading project.
Library status is fined. No fine amount is given here. A compliance officer at a diversified manufacturer has a narrower question than the headline suggests: which product line, which tenders, and which competitors were in the room.
Competition footprint
Marine hose for oil loading is the cartel product. The rest of the motion-control catalog is context, not the infringement.
Bridgestone and Manuli are the other firms named with Parker-Hannifin.
Project quotes to oil companies and terminal operators are the transactions the coordination reached.
Consumer & business angle
A terminal engineer comparing hose bids was entitled to independent numbers from each qualified supplier.
Parker's other customers, buying ordinary hydraulics, are not the purchasers described in the hose decision.
What to watch
- How Parker separates marine-hose tenders from the rest of its bidding in compliance reviews.
- Claims by oil-terminal buyers that purchased loading hose from the cartel suppliers.
Markets
motion and control equipment · marine hose · marine hoses · oil terminal equipment
Also known as: parker hannifin, parker