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In 1933, Melbourne engineer and businessman Mr. Jim Dodds (pictured opposite) obtained a license agreement with Riley Stoker Inc of USA and established Riley Dodds (Australia) Ltd (RDA) for the purpose of designing and building boilers for Australian and New Zealand requirements. The company prospered and continued in operation for almost forty years. A number of RDA boilers are still in operation.

 

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Founder: J. Dodds

In 1972 Clyde Industries Ltd acquired RDA and the company name was changed to Clyde-Riley Dodds. It operated under that name until August 1990 when Babcock-Hitachi K.K. (BHK) of Japan purchased the majority shareholding from Clyde Industries and Clyde Babcock-Hitachi (Australia) Pty Ltd (CBH) was established, jointly owned by BHK and Clyde Industries.

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Over the following period until August 1990, Clyde-Riley Dodds designed and built 6 x 275MW boilers at Gladstone Power Station and industrial boilers in the Australian Sugar and Paper Industries. It also constructed 4 x 350MW boilers at Tarong and 2 x 350MW boilers at Callide ‘B’ Power Stations.

CBH was formed when Babcock-Hitachi K.K. and Clyde industries formed the new company under a Joint Venture Agreement in August 1990.

CBH Today

The CBH Organisation was founded in 1933 and has been in business as a boiler designer and constructor for approximately seventy (70) years. This has produced a special ‘culture’ in the Company, because boilers have to be reliable, efficient and available for service. They are a very large investment for our clients, their operation is subject to extreme conditions of temperature, pressure and erosion and there are strict rules applied by statutory authorities to ensure their safe operation. Boilers are also the key component in the production process of plants where they are installed, whether it be a power station producing power, a sugar or paper mill or any other processing plant. Any interruption in the boiler’s operation causes an interruption in production and corresponding loss of revenue to the plant owner.

Having grown in this environment, it is understandable that the central business principles of CBH are reliability, responsiveness and relationships. It is important to CBH that its customers always know that they can contact an appropriate person at any time of day or night and receive prompt attention.

        

Since its formation in 1990, CBH has continued to design and build industrial boilers and is currently the leading Constructor of Power Station Boilers in Australia. The knowledge, specialised skills, and experience from its long association with boiler plant has additionally made CBH a leading provider of overhaul and maintenance services to owners of boiler and other plant throughout Australia.

In its relatively short history since 1990, CBH has designed and built bagasse-fired boilers at Proserpine, Macknade and Isis Sugar Mills. Also, it has constructed 4 x 350MW boilers at Stanwell Power Station, 1 x 330MW boiler at Collie Power Station and 2 x 420MW supercritical boilers at Callide C Power Station.  In the same period, it has established alliances with several Power Corporations and industrial plants, covering maintenance and overhaul of boilers and other plant. Elsewhere, with its proven equipment for the efficient burning of bagasse and other forms of biomass fuel to produce energy, CBH is actively participating in the international effort to limit the production of greenhouse gases.