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Our HistOry
This American story starts during the hectic times of World War II at an era where basic necessities were scarce and
people went through life without common comforts that are now mostly taken for granted.
My father in his early 20’s, married with children and living in a very cold region of the world with few available
natural resources. He longed for a warm home for his young family.
“Necessity is the Mother of All Inventions”. My Father, Mourad Demirjian, with a background as a plumber came up
with an idea of using diesel fuel as a heat source. He realized that if he developed a way to control the amount of
diesel fuel discharging he could achieve a constant ame. He developed a drip method system that could regulate the
amount of fuel discharging. Then he designed a path of travel to allow the discharging fuel to ow into a welded metal
chamber. Once capturing a clean burning ame and by using special louvers and heat transfer panels he was able to
radiate constant heat into the room.
Once that was achieved, next he set his sights on designing a special ue to exhaust fumes produced by the burning
fuel out of the room. After a few adjustments he had created his viable fuel-efcient space heater.
My Mother, being the center of the community, had many friends and relatives stopping by for visits. Once they took
notice of our warm home there was an immediate demand for my father’s new space heater.
As you can imagine, my father left his job as a plumber to focus on building his new space heaters to fulll the quick
risings demand. Later models incorporated a glass window to view the burning ames and a hot plate on top to keep
food warm. I remember as a small child using it to melt cheese on bread for a quick snack.
In the late 60’s my family immigrated to the United States. In the early 70’s we started building custom commercial
cooking equipment. This led us to develop our own brand of a production line-up of cooking equipment based on
those one-of-a kind designs, which is supplied nationally and internationally to the food service industry. Along with
building quality equipment we have also built quality relationships. These relationships created another demand and
inspired us to build our commercial grade residential cooking appliances.