Global Heat Transfer (Aust)

Global Heat Transfer Australia was opened in October 2003. GHTA started after a long discussion between Ron Geary and Ged Vanberg. Ron was growing consistently frustrated with pricing and lead times by a monopoly in one section of the industrial radiator industry.

Ron opened Industrial Radiators (1978) in Perth using his extensive knowledge as a qualified sheet metal worker. Prior to this, Ron was a Supervisor/Apprentice Examiner at the Midland railway workshops. Ron eventually built on his knowledge and experience to build a radiator service shop that was to be the largest in the country, employing 63 people, before being bought out in 2008. During this time Ron was presented a design award for his DD radiator for its unique thermal design along with other accolades.

That same year (1978) that Ron started, Ged Vanberg opened G&G radiators in Alberta, Canada. Ged was a heavy duty mechanic with the local Caterpillar dealer. However he had a problem in that although he understood radiators from his days as a mechanic, he did not know the first thing about how to a repair a radiator itself. So the first thing he did was to visit the biggest, and most renowned, radiator shops around North America. He pai...