White Industries and Neumann Contractors produce the Bucket wheel for a New Dredge
Neumann Contractors are the premier dredge manufacturers in this part of the world and one of White Industries’ most successful and oldest customers, running their business on the Gold Coast since 1948. In recent times business has...
Mick Shelford’s last day
Words by CEO Craig White Friday the 13th of September was the last time Mick Shelford drove through the gates as our foundry manager. So, I write this story with mixed emotions; sad, because one of my mentors is leaving us and happy because I am one...
Reinvestment & Reciprocal Trading
White Industries continues its program of reinvestment in the foundry, adding a new, 10-ton overhead crane to its inventory. It replaces the old 5-ton unit that was at the end of its life and provided an opportunity to upscale and meet the growing...
Quip | Field Days Gunnedah NSW August 2019
The highlight of the annual rural calendar, AgQuip, was back larger than ever for 2019. Australia’s premier field day at Gunnedah was a “full house”, with exhibitor sites consuming every inch of space allocated, complimented by...
Foundry Tech: Grey Irons and SG Irons
In the last two articles, we’ve looked at Grey Irons and SG Irons. Both have varying amounts of ferrite and pearlite to adjust the physical properties such as strength and hardness. There is another family of irons with a structure known as...
The Benefits of Local Supply
When a business is looking to have a product made, they will typically get prices from different suppliers. From there, they will decide on who they will buy from based on various considerations, such as quality, cost, lead-time, and so on....
Queensland Mining is on the up with another new Coal Mine
The Byerwen coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin was officially opened this month, with the $1.76 billion mine set to deliver up to 10 million tonnes of hard coking coal per annum. Located 20 kilometres west of Glenden, Byerwen mine will employ...
New Apprentice Moulder – Malcom Farrell
Malcolm started with us as a Year-11 school-based apprentice moulder in May this year, working once a week. As the year has progressed, Malcom decided that school wasn’t getting the best out of him, so rather than waste time just to complete the...
Booming coking coal prices leads the way to jobs
Australia’s metallurgical coal production remained broadly unchanged in 2016-17, at 190 million tonnes, but in 2017-18, production has been forecast to increase by 3.0 per cent to 196 million tonnes in response to strong import demand from...
AG-QUIP Gunnedah
As the gates opened on the 46th annual AgQuip on Tuesday morning, nobody quite knew what to expect with the industry crippled by drought, but the crowds poured in over the three days and were similar to the 100,000 of last year. Considering how...