Customers around the world have come to rely on Bristol Compressors. The reason is simple: All Bristol products are made to the highest standards of quality, reliability and performance. In 1974 construction of our 600,00......Customers around the world have come to rely on Bristol Compressors. The reason is simple: All Bristol products are made to the highest standards of quality, reliability and performance. In 1974 construction of our 600,000 square foot facility began in Bristol, Virginia and in early 1975 the first hermetic compressors were produced. Today Bristol Compressors manufactures a full line of hermetic compressors that are used in domestic and commercial air conditioning and heat pump applications. Bristol Compressors also added in 1998, a 200,000 square foot on site warehouse facility.