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Australian Welding: June 2020
NEPEAN: Global Strength, Local Service Opening its doors in 1974, one of Weld Australia’s newest members, NEPEAN Engineering & Innovation is now one of Australia’s largest privately owned engineering service providers. With an elite design and project management team that understands the diverse nature of engineering, NEPEAN produces goods locally from their state-of-the-art facilities in south-west Sydney and delivers to customers all over Australia and globally.
For over 45 years, NEPEAN Engineering & Innovation has maintained a culture that recognises and respects the importance of all participants in the business, focused on building lasting relationships with employees, sub-contractors and customers. According to NEPEAN Engineering & Innovation General Manager, Peter Buckley, “The organisation was founded in 1974 by David Fuller. With humble beginnings, it grew from a small engineering company into a highly successful and respected integrated engineering business. Today, NEPEAN employs over 1,500 people across eight countries worldwide, and is led by CEO Miles Fuller, son of David. NEPEAN Engineering & Innovation employs over 150 employees at our site in Narellan.”
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We’ve always worked with the best customers, providing the highest quality products for some of the most complex projects. We regularly work with industry experts like Lendlease and Hutchinson Builders on projects requiring upwards of 2,000 tonnes of steel.”
NEPEAN Engineering & Innovation has the depth, diversity, capability and experience to successfully deliver on the largest and most complex engineering projects. Their engineering services are supported by extensive facilities, including over 50,000m2 of workshop space, inhouse design, a fully equipped stateof-the-art CNC and machine shop, steel fabrication workshop, laser cutting, sheet metal, shot blasting, painting and powder coat finishing. “With large CNC machines, precision manufacturing and structural steel capabilities, through to laser cutting, our own blasting and painting facilities and installation capabilities, we are truly an integrated engineering business—we really do have everything under the one roof,” said Buckley.
Major Clients and Projects “We’ve always worked with the best customers, providing the highest quality products for some of the most complex projects. We regularly work with industry experts like Lendlease and Hutchinson Builders on projects requiring upwards of 2,000 tonnes of steel.” NEPEAN Engineering & Innovation recently completed work on the 60 Martin Place building in Sydney for Lendlease. NEPEAN manufactured, erected and assembled many components, including three 43 tonne steel transfer trusses, measuring 4.5m high and 21m long, that were installed in the building’s plantroom. NEPEAN also fabricated and installed a challenging five-level steel frame clad staircase in the building’s foyer.
