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Special Feature

Kudat Riviera Resort at Sabah.

Decra® stone-coated metal roof tiles
Lightweight, durable and sustainable
AHI Roofing (Malaysia) Regional General Manager-Asia, Mr Robert Aaron talked to B&I team
on Decra® brand and the company’s plans for the future.
AHI ROOFING (MALAYSIA) is a wholly owned entity of Fletcher
Building, a leading New Zealand based manufacturer and provider of
construction related materials and services. AHI Roofing (Malaysia)
operates under Fletcher Building’s international Roof Tile Group (RTG)
and produces and distributes stone coated metal roof tiles (a high quality
roofing material that is lightweight, sustainable and proven to withstand
severe weather conditions) to markets across Asia and Africa from its
facility in Nilai, Malaysia. It is a part of RTG’s broader plant and market
network which together service over 120 countries across 4 continents
under the brands “Decra® Roofing Systems” and “Gerard Roofing
Systems”. Here on home soil, it has been a decade since AHI acquired
Malaysian Roofing Industries Sdn Bhd (MRI) and upgraded the Nilai
plant to support its regional growth in Japan, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Recently, B&I talked to Regional General Manager-Asia, Mr Robert
Aaron, about the company’s achievements and its plans for the future.
B&I: By way of introduction to our readership, would you brief
us on AHI Roofing’s history?

AHI Roofing (Malaysia) Regional General Manager-Asia, Mr Robert Aaron.
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RA: It’s a bit of a long history that dates back almost 60 years now. The
business was founded in New Zealand by Mr L J Fischer, the inventor of
stone-coated metal rooftops, in 1957 and subsequently acquired by AHI
(Alex Harvey Industries) in 1969. When Fletcher Building (Roof Tile
Group) acquired AHI, the product was integrated into its (Fletcher’s)