The hindustan group started  their  flagship  firm - M/s HINDUSTAN REFRIGERATION STORES, an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company, a well-known landmark of Daryaganj, in the year 1947.  They represented most manufacturers abroad and played an important role in the setting up of cold stores in Northern India.  Realizing the importance of indigenous development, the group ventured into manufacturing activity and developed ice-cream manufacturing and dispensing equipment, in the “Igloo” range and have been successfully providing self-employment opportunity, to a large number of small scale ice-cream manufacturers, in the country and which plants are now installed in most villages and towns of the north.Further, additions to the group were, in the form of better manufacturing facilities at NOIDA and where today, a large variety of refrigeration  and air-conditioning   equipment is manufactured in standard and custom built designs. Process CHILLERS and other innovative cooling equipment; have been developed by the group and which match expensive imported equipment    in performance and designs.  The Group has further made progress  in the handling of industrial gases, including Ammonia, Sulphur-dioxide  and the  Mettron  range and today operate a fleet of bulk industrial  gas tankers, for  this purpose.  To this,  they  have now introduced Hydrocarbon Refrigerants in cans, cylinders and Iso-tainers.In 2006, they tied up with DUPONT & set up a filling plant for handling their SUVA & ISCEON range of refrigerant gases.A few years ago the group took over an ailing unit at Madras and where similar and existing equipment is produced to feed the Southern market through M/s REFRIGERATORS & HOME APPLIANCES PVT. LTD., also a landmark location of CHENNAI.  A representative office at Kolkatta to take care of the East India operation is located on the busy Ganesh Chandra Avenue Road, Kolkatta.  Lately, they added a warehouse / office at Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai also.