The Dodge Company was founded in 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the years, arms have been added in Canada, the UK and Australia. Today, The Dodge Company, a fourth generation family business, is the largest provider of embalming chemicals and supplies with subsidiaries and distributors located throughout the world.

The profession of Funeral Directing and Embalming has seen a great many changes over the past 100 or more years and Dodge is proud to have evolved to overcome many of these challenges. A deep understanding of the embalming process is one key to its success. Dodge appointed its first research chemist in 1926 to work on new and improved embalming chemical formulas. The third generation of Dodge’s realised the importance of continued professional education and further developed the Dodge Sunshine Seminars into what they are known and recognised as today.

The Dodge family has overseen the company during the several significant developments including the formulation, testing and release of the first formaldehyde free arterial and cavity fluids, the first embalming machine with automatic pressure control and a waterless aspirator.