Kajang, 12^th August 2009: Dunham-Bush Holding Bhd (“Dunham-Bush” or the “Company”), one of the world’s top commercial air conditioning manufacturers, signed an MOU with S.O.L.I.D. of Graz, Austria, related to the sales and distribution of Solar Thermal Air Conditioning systems developed and produced by S.O.L.I.D.   

Dunham-Bush was founded in 1906 by Mr. Dunham and Mr. Bush and the company has been in operation ever since. Today, the company has its global head quarters in Kajang, and employs over 2,000 people in 15 sales offices and 4 factories worldwide. It manufactures one of the broadest line of commercial air-conditioning equipment in the world, as well as, offers a full suite of related services (including installation, project management, after sale maintenance, energy contracting, etc.)

S.O.L.I.D. is an Austrian solar engineering company specializing in all aspects of large-scale solar thermal energy plants. Since 1992, S.O.L.I.D. has been planning, building, delivering, assembling and operating large-scale solar plants (exceeding 100 m2) around the world, providing hot water, heating rooms, and supplying process heat, including district heating. S.O.L.I.D. also designs and builds solar chilled water plants, including the largest commercial solar cooling projects currently in operation. With its unmatched experience in design and operation of large-scale solar plants, S.O.L.I.D. is both a pioneer and one of the world’s leading companies in the solar industry.

Dunham-Bush and S.O.L.I.D. plan to work together to combine their respective technologies to market, sell and implement world class “Green” air-conditioning systems.  Dunham-Bush offers a world-wide sales and distribution network along with a variety non-solar, Malaysian made, “green” technologies (for example Ice Thermal Storage, Geo-Thermal Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Systems).  By working together Dunham-Bush and S.O.L.I.D. can offers customers a suite of the latest technology that provide air-conditioning and refrigeration with the lowest possible carbon footprint.

Dunham-Bush CEO, Jeff Albright noted that “Dunham-Bush has been at the leading edge of green technology for some time, this partnership puts us one step further ahead in the effort to lower the overall carbon footprint of the commercial air conditioning industry.”