Business View Oceania | September 2020

64 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA SEPTEMBER 2020 condensing boilers, for example. And they supply retrofit solutions that include modern, efficient radiators, fan coils or surface heating and cooling products. According to Smith, “The majority of our business is the design and distribution of products to plumbers, heating installers and mechanical contractors throughout New Zealand. We do have an installation division here in Christchurch; a team of installers, project managers and salespeople who sell and install central heating for domestic homes. That’s utilised as an R & D wing for us as well, to test new products before we push them out to the entire market. Also of note, we’ve formed a joint venture partnership with Rinnai New Zealand – a large water heater manufacturer with a parent company based in Japan. They are involved in the heating and hot water market, so we became partners to compliment each other and to grow this more comfortable and energy efficient form of heating.”