Engineers assemble a dehumidifier at the Win Industrial Workshop site in Thingangyunt township, Yangon, on October 10.

MYANMAR’S leading industrial dehumidifier supplier last week said orders have picked up about 20 percent this rainy season as more factories come to realise the benefits of keeping moisture out of manufacturing.

U Khin Maung Win, who assembles and installs dehumidifiers nationwide through his company Win Industrial Workshop, said the increase in sales was due to greater awareness of dehumidifiers rather than an increase in the number factories.

“Orders have increased by 20pc compared with last rainy season. From the start of August up until October 10 we made 120 dehumidifiers. We hope to reach 200 by the end of October,” U Khin Maung Win said.

“Most orders come from cigarette and medicine factories as well as from beans and pulses traders. There is less demand for residential use,” he said.
U Khin Maung Win earlier said that 2006 had been a particularly quiet year for dehumidifier sales.

Win Industrial Workshop imports parts from Singapore and has no domestic competitors, U Khin Maung Win said.

The company started installing dehumidifiers in the early 1990s at the request of the government to assist industrial development. Most of its dehumidifiers cost between K700,000 and K3 million.