1903
The C. A. Dunham Company of Marshalltown, Iowa, was founded.
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Manufactured Industrial Steam Heating devices
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Tube Fin Coolers
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1907
Bush Manufacturing was founded in Hartford, Connecticut
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Produced round tube and fin radiators for Automotive OEMs such as the
Pope-Hartford Car Company.
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1950
C. A. Dunham merged with Bush Mfg. to form Dunham-Bush Manufacturing, Inc. (D-B)
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Manufactured round tube, fin radiators and condensers for HVAC, industrial air
conditioning and chillers as well as centrifugal pumps, steam heating systems and
miscellaneous other HVAC components.
1953
50th Anniversary of D-B
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Operations in Indiana, Iowa, Virginia, Connecticut, California and England.
1960
D-B forms the Fluid Cooling Division in Riverside, California
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Twenty employees and one OEM customer, Hayden. Made small copper condenser coils. Used as auxiliary engine and transmission coolers for the emergency RV and high
performance market.
1967
D-B acquired by Garrett Air Research
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Merged D-B with their Space Conditioning Division. Combined D-B screw compressor technology with Garrett's turbine compressor technology.
1975
D-B Fluid Cooling Division introduced the Kool-Mor brand of heat exchanger (Hx) products to the marketplace.
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1985
D-B acquired by a private investment group.
1990
D-B Fluid Cooling Division moved to their current facilities in Ontario,
California with 80 employees.
1991
D-B produces its first Nocolok-Brazed heat exchanger. |

Plate Fin Coolers |
1992
D-B initiates commercial joint venture in China.
1994
Thermal Dynamics establishes its first international joint venture.
1995
D-B Fluid Cooling Division renamed Thermal Dynamics Corporation.
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The HVAC operations was sold to a Malaysian company.
1996
Thermal Dynamics International establishes its first manufacturing cooperative joint venture in Mainland, China.
1997
Thermal Dynamics Corporation receives QS-9000/ISO9001 certification.
1999
Thermal Dynamics Corporation celebrates its 25th anniversary as Automotive/Truck OEM Supplier.
2000
Acquired Tongli, located in China, as a manufacturing facility.
2001
Became the Officially Licensed Oil Cooler of NASCAR ..........
2002
Thermal Dynamics Corporation opens a Sales and Applications Center to serve the OEM Automotive market.
2003
Thermal Dynamics facilities in California receive ISO-14001 certification.
2005 Thermal Dynamics Corporation receives the ISO/TS16949:2002 certification for both the factory in
California
and the
Sales & Applications
Support
Center
in
Michigan
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