Company Profile & History

Australis Engineering commenced manufacturing materials handling equipment in 1983, and since we have grown to be a leading supplier to manufacturing industries all over Australia and to overseas markets.

From the very beginning our focus has been on producing the best quality equipment for an affordable price in the belief that quality always ends up costing our clients less in the end. We now have many loyal clients who appreciate the value of our service and products.

Some interesting milestone projects in our history are:

• Supplied the complete Materials Handling and Warehousing system for the Royal Australian Mint which included robotics, AGVs, PLC and SCADA.

• Developed an heavy duty conveyor system for use in hazardous explosion production environment to handle acetylene bottles. Each 6m conveyor carries over 5000kg of product

• Developed a customised system to sort 2000kg bundles of reinforcing steel into single bars for single bar processing

• Installed a complete conveying, palletising and elevating system to handle toxic HCB waste

• Designed and developed Mad Max a special purpose machine to de-cap the old style 2 piece PET bottles, this machine was exported to the USA

• Developed and manufactured the first Australian built Airflow Conveying Systems have been supplied to PET bottle manufactures and soft drink manufacturers all over Australia.

• Exported Air Conveyors to New Zealand, New Caledonia & Papua New Guinea

• Major contracts to supply slatband conveyors to Coca-Cola Sydney.

• Major contract to develop a prototype handling system for small glass vials (a World First) for Faulding Pharmaceuticals.

• Developed a Palletising System to handle square bottles for Southcorp.

• Developed a Palletiser to automatically palletise PET bottles for P & N Beverages for their Aldi contract.

• Developed a conveyor system to handle battery lids on an assembly line; this system was exported to USA.

• Designed & built wide belt conveyors with tracking systems for biscuit and bread manufacturers.

• Developed an alpine accumulation conveyor for Colgate.

• Released Series II Air Flow System incorporating infinitely adjustable guide rail system.

• Exported Airflow Series II to Vietnam and Fiji.

• Developed Ocme Case Packer infeed bottle system incorporating wide modular belt conveyor with quick change bottle frames and overhead gating system.

The above are only a small sample of projects and products that we have successfully handled within our manufacturing history.

You can be confident in the knowledge that our experience in completing difficult projects will ensure a successful outcome for your own special needs.