DBHB’s headquarters is located on a 60,702 m² site in Kajang with a total built-up area of about 32,774 m². The factory in Kajang has the most modern facility for the manufacturing and testing of packaged chillers up to 10,500 kW in South East Asia. DBHB also has a factory and office complex in Bangi located on a 6-acre plot of industrial land in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia and has a total built-up area of about 28,378 m².

The Group’s operations in Malaysia involve principally the manufacture, distribution and sale of a complete range of air-conditioning & refrigeration equipment and associated products. They include water-cooled and aircooled chillers, heat pumps, watercooled and air-cooled packaged and split air-conditioners, air-handling units, fancoil units; low temperature condensing and fancoil units for refrigeration purposes; Ice-Cel thermal storage units, close-control air-conditioning equipment, grilles, diffusers, acoustic silencers, variable air volume boxes, cooling towers, exhaust and ventilation fans. These are marketed and sold under brand names such as ‘Dunham-Bush’, ‘Topaire’, ‘DBAire’, ‘Anemostat’ and ‘Polacel’. The Group also manufactures airconditioners under an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) arrangement for certain Japanese company and other company under its own brand.

With the acquisition of USA-based Dunham-Bush’s Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) business on 6 January 1995, DBHB now owns a host of intellectual property rights, trademarks and patents recognised worldwide. Dunham-Bush, with almost 100 years of history, is the pioneer in the usage of rotary screw compressor technology in large and high tonnage air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Today, Dunham-Bush is one of the largest manufacturers of rotary screw compressor-type water chillers in the world.

In the USA, an office is maintained in Hartford for the sale of parts and the service of existing products in the field. It is also selling chillers and related air-conditioning products from Malaysia. The factory in West Hartford, Connecticut manufactures open drive horizontal screw compressors (100-2,200 hp), hermetic vertical screw compressors (65-200 hp), and semi-hermetic direct drive reciprocating compressors (3- 60 hp). The manufacturing cum office building of 11,500 square meters and a 2,000 square meters R&D building sit on a 48,562 m² of land.

The Group acquired a 51% controlling stake in Rossmont plc. in April 1996 and subsequently assumed its present name of Dunham-Bush (Europe) plc., on 21 February 1997. Dunham-Bush (Europe) plc. now owns 100% of Dunham-Bush Limited which manufactures a wide range of heating products including fancoil units, fan convectors, hydraulic unit ventilators, Walvector radiators, warm air door curtains, low surface temperature convectors, cabinet unit heaters, fin vector perimeter heating, and radiant heating panels. Dunham-Bush Limited operates in a 9,990 square meters manufacturing cum office complex in a 17,482 m² site in Havant, UK.

In China, DBHB owns 55% of Dunham-Bush Yantai Co Ltd, a joint-venture factory set up with Yantai Moon (Group) Co Ltd. Dunham-Bush Yantai Co Ltd officially commenced production of WCFX rotary screw chillers, heat pumps, air-handling units and other associated air-conditioning products in December 1996.

The office and factory complex has a covered area of about 18,700 square meters on a land area of 25,495 m². The Group has also set up sales and service offices in 25 cities in China with the Headquarters based in Shanghai. A 55%-owned manufacturing factory, Hartford Compressors Yantai Co Ltd, was set up in the Shandong Province on 6 December 2001 to produce rotary screw compressors. The Hartford Compressors Yantai Co Ltd’s factory building has 12,160 m² of floor space including the office building. Total area of land and building is 17,380 m².

Dunham-Bush Yantai Co Ltd recently entered into a Purchase Contract with the Administrative Committee of Yantai Laishan Economic Development Zone of Shandong, China for the purchase of a piece of factory land of approximately 100,000 m² located at Laishan Economic Development Zone and in the west of Qinglai Road, Shandong, China. A new factory cum office building with a builtup area of about 40,000 m² is being constructed and upon completion the operations of both the companies will be relocated to the new building.

The Company also operates regional sales and service offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. In Dubai, a sales office was set up in March 1996, to handle the Middle Eastern market. Consequently, the Group increased its export sales to Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, Iraq and Yemen through some very strong distributors.

A Dunham-Bush sales company, Dunham-Bush de Mexico SA de CV, was set up in Mexico on 2 January 1998. It now sells applied products from the Malaysian factory. This sales company is registered with Pemex, the National gas and oil group, and Bufete Industrial, one of the largest engineering and contracting firms in Latin America. In addition, Dunham-Bush de Mexico SA de CV is also registered with all government institutions in Mexico.

Also, in January 1998, a sales company, Dunham-Bush International (Europe) BV, was set up in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, to cover sales and services in continental Europe through distributors. Distributors in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and the Commonwealth of Independent States (including Russia) have contributed to successful start. The Group has also set up a sales office in South Africa to cover the various countries in African continents.

In August 2000, DBHB’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Singapore acquired 49% equity interest in Dunham-Bush International (Thailand) Ltd, a company incorporated in Thailand, to provide the base to launch Dunham-Bush’s products into Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar.

As a major global player in air-conditioning and refrigeration, the Group’s R&D units in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA, and in Bangi and Kajang, Malaysia, are constantly coming out with new cuttingedge technologies to ensure that DBM stays competitive. Today, the Group has two large manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, one in the USA, one in the UK, and two in China; its own Regional Sales Offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, The Netherlands, Mexico, South Africa, Vietnam and Thailand; and a whole network of sales agents and distributors in almost every country in the world. The total employee strength including the USA, UK and China facilities, together with its sales offices worldwide, are approximately 1,714 person.