In June 1934, Frank W Davey opened his auto-electrical repairs business in a small shop in Carlton, Victoria, Australia with a staff of five. Frank visited the Victoria Market in Carlton daily and offered a "same morning" change-over electrical accessory service to the country vegetable growers and buyers. He recognized a market niche during poor economic times, that expanded and grew from an auto-electrical repair shop to an electric motor and generator manufacturer and finally to the manufacturer of Australia’s own world-famous, Davey!

Now more than ever, Davey reflects a business culture of dependable, innovative water solutions when and where you need them, supported by the best service and advice.

The promise of reliability is core to what we do, and what our reputation has been built upon

Testing and quality control are critical, ensuring your product is the absolute best it can be. Every single one of our products is tested for function, performance, and pressure leaks, and doesn't leave our factory until it receives the tick of approval. This means hooking the pump up to power and water and running it up to pressure to make sure all is as it should be. You don't get that on a cheaper pump!

Our pumps have been proven to perform well in some of the world's harshest climates, in our manufacturing, we replicate these conditions in our environmental cabinet, where our pumps are run for months at a time at 50°C and 100% humidity (that's a bit hot!).

We even "torture-test" our pumps and regularly test them off our assembly line for up to 500,000 cycles. This means turning the pump on, bringing it up to pressure, and turning it off again, to indicate one cycle. This testing is equivalent to 10 years of domestic use by a family of 4 with many of these pumps running far longer, for 750,000 or even 1 million cycles!

The Davey Water Products Melbourne facility is the Head Office for the water group. It is the main manufacturing site for domestic and industrial pumps and the central distribution center for interstate and global branches.

The environmental policy for the Davey Water Products Melbourne site is:

"To protect the environment by striving to continually improve processes that minimize waste and pollution, and by setting environmental objectives and targets which meet or exceed all legal requirements."