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In 1920, Hidejiro left his job at Nagoya Gas (currently Toho Gas Co., Ltd.) and established Rinnai & Co. together with
Kanekichi, a childhood friend who lived in the same dormitory. The company name was coined from characters in the two founder's last names – “Rin” (it’s another way of reading
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The product range of Rinnai
Malaysia are mainly home kitchen appliances, including cooker hoods, built-in hobs, table-top stoves, built-in ovens and microwave ovens, BBQ set, and a kitchen sinks and faucets collaboration with Suprema from Australia. Rinnai also sell gas and electric instant water
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By the 1950s, Rinnai changed to a limited company and opened up their Tokyo office. From then onwards, Rinnai expanded rapidly by opening up more subsidiaries and factories around the country and increasing the business line-up to produce more gas-related appliances. Today, Rinnai has 15 domestic
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Rinnai began with manufacturing and selling gas appliances such as gas table top stoves, gas ovens and gas water heaters. From 1938 to 1946, the company paused their gas appliances production to manufacture aircraft parts for the army for war effort. The production resumed in 1946 after the head
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Rinnai
Malaysia developed the first generation Electric Instant Water Heater, Ore Series. Soon after, Rinnai Malaysia developed the second generation, Crystal Series. Both series are also distributed to several South East Asia subsidiaries to be sold in their respective countries.
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Formally known as Rinnai & Co., the company was co-founded by
Kanekichi Hayashi and Hidejiro Naito. The origin of the business started in November 1918, stemming from Hidejiro’s inspiration from the blue flames emitted from an imported oil-burning
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cooking stove. Using the particular stove as a model, Hidejiro subsequently developed a petroleum-fuelled stove.
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