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BACKGROUND

Horwood Bagshaw is a long-established South Australian company founded [in its initial format] in 1838.

The company has evolved through various structures and locations in & around Adelaide. From 1975 all activity was consolidated in Mannum approx 80km from Adelaide.

In 1998, Horwood Bagshaw was purchased by Adelaide based Sweeney Investments to become a South Australian privately-owned and based company.

The factory at Mannum has been extensively upgraded since and now provides an efficient facility, in particular, to process [from cutting through to painting] large steel structures.

The above facilities allow Horwood Bagshaw to operate two divisions, ie,

Contract Engineering: Horwood Bagshaw has had extensive experience as a Contract Engineer over a prolonged period with the mining, automotive & wine industries.

This has allowed the company to develop welding skills for mild steel, stainless steel & aluminium, and maintain a solid group of boilermakers/welders, many of whom have been trained by the company.

Agricultural Machinery: Recent emphasis has seen the development of its range of Tillage & Seeding equipment [for which Horwood Bagshaw holds a 15% share of the Australian market].

Participation in this segment allows Horwood Bagshaw to maintain a range of skills [particularly for module fabrication] which are complementary to its Contract Engineering activity.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Contract Engineering: Horwood Bagshaw has built-up experience in the fabrication of heavy-duty assemblies/equipment over a number of years.

Of relevance to fabricators is Horwood Bagshaw’s recent involvement in:

• Mining
  • Infrastructure for the Mindarie & Angas mines.
  • Chasses for portable mining villages.
  • An underground excavator.
• Rail
  • Side walls, sills, etc, for chay wagons.
• Transport
  • Trailer chasses.
• Wine
  • Stainless steel, rotary fermentation tanks.
• Automotive
  • Stainless steel & mild steel Paint Shop structures for Holden, Toyota & Mitsubishi.
  • Conveyor tracks for Holden & Mitsubishi.
• General
  • Grain-Unloading Ramps

Agricultural Machinery: The company’s agricultural product range is centred on robust Tillage & Seeding equipment. However, the range also includes a Grader Scraper, used in laser-levelling irrigation bays for cotton and rice growing. The earth-engaging nature of these machines has ingrained in all employees the need for robustness, reliability and durability.

PRODUCTION FACILITIES

Horwood Bagshaw’s administrative and production facilities are located on a 28 acre site in the township of Mannum.
The significant feature of the facility is the undercover area of 10,500 square metres available for manufacture / fabrication / assembly.

This undercover area allows Horwood Bagshaw to process high volumes of large-framed machines/devices within a relatively short time frame.

A clean layout of Fabrication Bays, underneath overhead cranes, facilitates relatively simple processing.

The 6500 square metres of Production space under cover is allocated approx as follows:

PAINTING FACILITIES

Two modern, efficient Paint Shops are located in separate buildings.

Product is moved through the Paint Shops by an overhead rail system. Very heavy sections are moved by transporters.

The size of the Paint Shops, and their spray booths, facilitates the painting of very large sections/structures (up to 20m x 6m).

Top coats can be applied electrostatically and produce a high quality finish. One of the Paint Shops is dedicated to two pack finishing.

SERVICES

• Mobile Crane
• Forklifts to 12 tonne capacity
• Amada band saws (Angle @ Straight cut)
• Twin head profile cutter
• Mazak V12 machining centre
• Mazak M4 Lathe 2 various engine lathes
• Machine shop (various drills, lathes, mills)
• Guillotine
• Amada punch press
• Brake press 5 metre bed 150 tonne
• Welding facility (mig, tig,aluminium)
• Paint shop
• Solid Works 3D mechanical software
• Finite element analysis, utilizing Cosmos Works software

Due to our supplier relationships, other services can be provided to ensure all manufacturing elements are included as part of our service.

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