Profile: Ober Read & Associates, Inc. is a distributor of air, vapor and liquid handling equipment including pumps, blowers, heat exchangers and systems. Our product line includes centrifugal pumps, gear pumps, blowers and hot oil pumps. Our centrifugal pumps produce flow through centrifugal force, and fluid is drawn into the eye of an impeller & increases in velocity as it moves to the outer edge of the impeller. It is designed to handle a wide temperature range. Our rotary vane vacuum pumps are single stage, air-cooled, and direct driven. These oil-recirculating pumps are used in a variety of industries such as packaging, food processing, injection molding, and printed circuit board testing.