Platinum Partner profile

DUX

True to the trade since 1935

With an absolute focus on innovation and collaboration, Dux provide plumbers and drainlayers with products and solutions designed to improve installation efficiency.

With over 85 years of experience of designing, manufacturing and distributing to the New Zealand plumbing and drainage industry, Dux is a well-known and trusted brand that requires little introduction. Dux has four key product categories— SecuraGold™, FlexiTrap™, Surface Water Drainage, and Grease Management—as well as one legacy product category: the iconic Centreflush, 55 years young and still going strong with over four million sold.

Dux understand the importance of supporting the industry and value their long-standing relationships with tradespeople through their ongoing Platinum Partnership with Master Plumbers. They also invest in the future of the industry with an annual scholarship to provide further support to plumbing apprentices and have developed an online learning platform for plumbers and drainlayers to continue upskilling at their own convenience. All while staying true to the trade—not making SecuraGold™ available in major hardware stores nationwide, to ensure customers can be confident that in choosing Dux they have a supply partner who cares.

Delivering on their commitment to care, products in the Dux range go through a comprehensive quality control (QC) process before entering the market to ensure they meet standards and deliver long-term results that can be relied on.

With the most extensive Hot and Cold Polybutene-1 system in New Zealand, SecuraGold™ has been tried, tested and proven for over 30 years and has over 90 DZR brass fittings in the range, which undergo QC testing twice with 15 different dimensional or physical checks performed against specification. On top of that Dux offer free unlimited tool servicing to keep your crimp tool in top condition, providing you with peace of mind that your tool is doing what it should.

Their team of highly knowledgeable Territory Managers are supported by an expert technical team, who have been part of the Dux team for an average of 17 years each—safe to say they know their stuff! Despite this, the team understand the importance of collaborating with those on the tools every day, regularly seeking feedback from the trade when it comes to product development and innovation.

Dux introduced the first plastic wastewater traps to the New Zealand market in 1966 and continue to be proud leaders of innovation in the industry, investing heavily in research, development and testing to address genuine market pain points identified by plumbers and drainlayers through trade focus groups. As a result, Dux introduced FlexiTrap™ to the market in 2015. With its unique FlexiJoint™ balland-socket design allowing for a 5° range of motion, FlexiTrap™ provides plumbers with an easy and efficient solution when working with misaligned pipes.

Not resting on their laurels, in 2018 Dux launched a New Zealand first… the AdjustaPit®. Designed based on feedback from drainlayers, the AdjustaPit® is faster to install than traditional pits and features a patented adjustable riser that, with a few quick turns, enables fast fine tuning to the finished ground level. Unlike other silt pits, the 350mm AdjustaPit® was purposefully developed to meet NZBC* compliance requirements to make the installer’s life easier and improve installation efficiencies. The range was adjusted up in 2019 with the introduction of the 250mm AdjustaPit®, featuring sleek aluminium grates— ideal for providing the perfect finishing touch to visual areas—and now Dux have added to the range again with 5 tonne load-tested 250mm cast iron grates.

In choosing Dux you can be confident because they offer quality manufacture, years of reliable performance, value for money, and ongoing innovation.

Dux has four key product categories: SecuraGold™, FlexiTrap™, Surface Water Drainage, and Grease Management.

To view Dux’s full range, visit www.dux.co.nz