Another First for IDE
Industrial Door Engineering has completed the upgrading of the roller shutters and fire roller shutters on Shrewsbury Market, Shropshire, UK. The project involved new internal roller shutters and fire roller shutters but also, the first Panorama Roller Shutter to be fitted in the UK.

The Panorama shutter curtain was manufactured and powder-coated by Dover Vanguard at their Oldham factory. The remainder of the shutter was manufactured at the I.D.E factory in Northwich. The shutter is almost 7 metres wide and 3.5 metres high and driven by a 500 Nm tube motor and also incorporates a tapered bottom rail to compensate for the sloping floor.

Ray Bassett, the I.D.E. surveyor who co-ordinated the project said ‘the client is delighted with the products that we have supplied, particularly the Panorama shutter that has replaced a twenty year old hand crank operated tube and link grille’.

Austral Monsoon Industries - Brisbane
AMI - Brisbane continues to show strong growth. To highlight just some of the projects over the last quarter we have FDC Construction & Fit out
Alspec Alum Project Logan Lea Brisbane. This project was to supply and install (20) H14 electrically operated steel roller shutters to Alpsec Alum new manufacturing facility at Loganlea Brisbane.

Aclad Architectural Cladding Systems – Supply and install (1) H15 electrically operated steel shutters 14mtrs wide x 7.2mtrs high to their new manufacturing facility in Wakerley Brisbane plus (3) smaller steel shutters as well.

Grocon Constructions
The Oracle Apartments – Broadbeach Gold Coast
Supply and Install (4) E85 electrically operated Aluminium car park shutters to the basements of the 2 residential towers – see links below for blurb
http://www.oraclebroadbeach.com.au/broadbeach/grocon/
http://www.grocon.com.au/pdfs/queensland/Oracle.pdf

And amongst our BER School Contracts Won

Broad Constructions - Collingwood Park State School Brisbane. Supply and Install (18) H10 steel roller shutters to the new Collingwood Park State School
Redbank Plains State School  Brisbane. Supply and install (6) H11 steel shutters to the new Multi Purpose Hall at Redbank Plains State School
Evans Harch, Coorparoo Secondary College – Coorparoo Brisbane. Supply and install (7) H11 steel shutters to the new Multi Purpose Hall & resource Centre

Austral Monsoon Door Services - Sydney
AMDS has again completed another successful quarter.  July - September period has seen solid result in all areas with total growth with well over 450 indivudual service jobs completed in addition to the regular Preventative Maintenance Service (PMS) tasks.

During June we took possession of a new Service truck. This truck has been invaluable and certainly improved
the level of work capacity in our service division

As part of our larger service projects, the Anglican Retirement Village's have continued to support our Service Division which includes the repair at Baulkham Hills Food Services Centre where new rollers and new bottom rails were installed mid month.
 
Hutchinson Builders job site at St. Leonards involved replacing an old rusted out steel roller shutter with one of our aluminium shutters. Goodman Property Services has contributed significantly to our sales targets at various sites.  Crown Construction has also continued its support of our Division with the inclusion of 42 doors for their regular PMS work.
 
This month also showed a growth in the use of Euro-Motors with three replacement doors using Euro-Motors fitted at National Foods, Penrith. National Foods at Penrith remains a stable, vital part of our customer base.

Blacktown City Council has ordered a number of new doors to replace vandalised doors at various locations.
New door to be installed at the Doonside Senior Citizens in July.

Austral Monsoon Building Products have recently commenced a second Volkswagen showroom in Victoria utilizing purpose made ellipsoid blades and outriggers to create an impressive sun awning.

We recently completed the 1st of 2 stages of Lotus Glenn Correctional Facility Mareeba; a 445millon dollar prison upgrade for Thiess, the main product used being the AME100 louver, the 2nd stage of the project will be towards the end of the year again using the AME100 louver

After a few months delay we have eventually made a start on the large commercial project 123 Albert Street in Brisbane. This is a prestigious high rise office tower in Brisbane CBD. We are installing AME100 continuous louvers to a number of plant rooms on this project

The building is the city’s first Premium-Grade high rise that has been awarded a 6 Star Green Star – Office Design v2 Certified rating.

123 Albert Street is a seamless design comprising 26 levels of office space, a broad light-filled ground floor reception, an exciting retail space and eight levels of car parking space. With mid rise floors of approximately 19,178 square metres and high rise floors up to 17,314 square metres, 123 Albert Street will offer some of the largest floor plates available in the Brisbane CBD.

We are completing a third project for Construction Chemicals using Maxiflow Operable Louver.

• St Benedicks  - Stormglaze operable louvers
• St Catharine’s – Maxiflow operable louvers
• Varsity Collage – Stormglaze operable louvers
• St Andrews  Anglican Collage – Stormglaze operable louvers
• Assi Collage stage 2 – Stormglaze operable louvers
• Assi Collage stage 4 – Stormglaze operable louvers
• All Hallows Girls School – Steel Framed Windows
• Mareeba State School – Maxiflow operable louvers
• Rockhampton Girls School -  Stormglaze operable louvers

Commercial Projects:

• Marybourgh Hospital – Coolite operable louvers
• Recently completed projects of note include:
• Volkswagen Baysford, sunshades which comprised a stunning awing of steel outriggers with a combination of ellipsoid
• blades ranging from 450mm wide, 400mm wide, 350mm wide and 300mm wide.

Ansa Doors South Australia:

Ansa Doors - South Australian division is making a remarkable impact in this sector of the industry
The SA Branch manager Jared Thompson has successfully won the following contracts in addition to a large number of smaller projects

PPP Schools   Builder: Hansen Yuncken.   Project Value: $57 Million
Toll NQX        Builder: Ahrens                 Project Value: $10 Million
Toll WA.        Builder: CIP.                      Project Value: $23 Million

Ansa Doors Victoria
The Ansa Doors Head Office has also achieved record sales with the signing of a number of contracts
Our enthusiastic sales team, Robert Romeo, Aaron De Courcy and Darren Kent have successfuly signed many projects
Listed below are the top 5 major contracts won

K-Mart distribution centre.             Builder: Qanstruct.                   Project Value: $14 Million
560 Melbourne Road Spotswood.   Builder: Access Construction.    Project Value: $ 8 Million
New Royal Childrens Hospital.        Builder: Bovis Lend Lease.        Project Value: $ 1 Billion
Ordish Rd Dandenong                    Builder: Elite Property              Project Value: $35 Million 
Toll Ipec Altona.                            Builder: CIP.                           Project Value: $37 Million     

In addition to this, Ansa Doors have also successfully made a great imapct on the supply only market in Tasmania to develop roller shutter installation options on the Apple Isle.

From a total of only a few bifolds made a few months ago the bifold department has now achieved a large increase in the bifold / tilt / custom panels:
Building projects for Pigatto, ASTA, Bovis Swift, Sydney BER Schools, CFA, Middendrop, Ambulance Victoria, Buxton and Contexx are just a few

Due to the successful sales volume in all the door products, the production plant started to experience a slight bottleneck in productions. To overcome this production was doubled by introducing a second shift operating till 11.00pm in the evening
Part of the changes was to implement a new $10,000 drying oven which significantly improved drying times

Austral Monsoon Building Products - Brisbane
To match the forecast tonnage demands of mines and ports, Queensland Rail developed the $500 Million Dollar Jilalan Rail Yard Upgrade project.  The Jilalan Rail Yard, located three kilometres south of Sarina near Mackay, is an important link in the Goonyella coal supply chain that moves coal from Central Queensland mines to the Port of Hay Point. The Yard is used by QR to maintain and service coal trains.

Austral Monsoon Building Products supplied AMF120 & AME60S, 200mm Ellipsoids & 300mm Ellipsoids to this project. AMBP have been involved in the upgrade over the past 4 years (since 2006), particular manufacture and installation work has been carried out on the Wagon Maintenance Sheds.

Ansa Doors - Victoria
Austral Monsoon Group Company Ansa Doors
Austral Monsoon Group Company Ansa Doors secures the roller shutter works for the new Toll Ipec distribution facility located in Hazelmere WA.  This 16,295 SQM development will consist of (45) Steel  Roller Shutters ranging from 2.6M Wide x 3.8M High up to 9.5M Wide x 5.5M High. The new distribution facility will be the regional hub of Toll Ipecs Western Australian operations

Austral Monsoon Industries - Newcastle
Newcastle clenches its biggest order to date
The Austral Monsoon Group’s Newcastle office secures the roller shutter contract to supply, deliver and install (73) roller shutter doors to the Energy Australia Stadium Western Grandstand Redevelopment located in Newcastle, NSW.

This $66m redevelopment of the Newcastle Knights home ground will consist of  various types of roller shutter doors from the Austral Monsoon product range.

Austral Monsoon Industries - Brisbane
Thiess and John Holland have been awarded a contract by BrisConnections to deliver the Airport Link project in Brisbane,  Queensland.  The 4.1 Billion Dollar project is Australia's largest road infrastructure project set  to cut congestion and fix one of Brisbane's most notorious bottlenecks. Austral Monsoons Industries part in the project is to deliver Steel Shutters at the Kalinga and Woolwooin sites

Austral Monsoon Building Products - Brisbane
Corinda to Darra Rail Upgrade
The Thiess United Group Joint Venture, as part of the Trackstar Alliance, have been awarded a contract by Queensland Rail to deliver the Corinda to Darra Rail Upgrade, which is one of four major rail infrastructure projects in south east Queensland.

The project is part of the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan (SEQIP) Rail Alliance which was set up to ensure the delivery of planned rail infrastructure works for the region. As part of the project, Austral Monsoon Building Products are supplying and installing to Thiess United Group Joint Venture (Thiess Pty Ltd & United Group Infrastructure Pty Ltd) the AME50 Louvre Doors, AME100 and AME100HV Louvres as well as 300mm Ellipsoids to the Darra Train Station - Lift Towers and Storage buildings. The works is expected to be completed late June 2010

Austral Monsoon Industries - Brisbane
Murgon Police Station and Watchhouse 
This project for the Department of Public Works by Sommer & Staff Constructions required the supply and installation of 5 steel shutters and 2 aluminium shutters. The new single story Police Station and Watchhouse was built on the existing site. The works includes a secure link between the new building and the existing Courthouse, complete with custody lift and a high level bridge incorporating a holding cell. Covered car parking and road works will complete the on-site works.

Industrial Door Engineering has completed the upgrade of the Appliance Bay automatic doors for the Cheshire Fire Service in the UK.

The £150,000 Contract involved either the complete renewal of the Appliance Bay Doors or alternatively, the upgrade of the automatic control systems. The programme of works commenced in Summer 2009 and was completed in February of 2010.

In total, 24 different fire stations throughout Cheshire County were worked upon. Some like the headquarters in Chester as shown in the attached photograph, were subject to a complete renewal program of doors complete with high speed motor units, LED traffic lights, photocell safety beams and auto-close photo-cells that instruct the doors to close immediately after the fire engine has left the building.

A range of different doors were supplied depending upon the style of buildings and their surroundings. Fully glazed sectionals, as at Chester, were installed at some sites. Standard sectionals or insulated roller shutters were installed at a number of other sites.

Ray Bassett of I.D.E. who co-ordinated the contract said ‘The Cheshire Fire Service are delighted with the upgrade that was carried out on schedule. The control equipment with the high speed motors and the sophisticated safety features is a vast improvement on what was originally fitted on the fire stations, and has helped significantly in the efficiency of the sites, particularly in emergency situations where the response time of the fire engines is critical.’

Cheshire Fire Service have a Service Contract with I.D.E. which means that all the Appliance Bay doors are regularly serviced and maintained to keep them up to the highest standard of operation

Lietzke Doors Australia - Adelaide
Lietzke Doors Australia have won the contract to supply 790 pressed metal door frames to Hansen Yuncken for the South Australian PPP Super Schools projects. The project involves development of six new schools in the Playford North, Inner North and Inner West areas of metropolitan Adelaide.

Lietzke Doors Australia have started to manufacture the replacement prison cell doors for the Port Augusta Prison Green Bush Top accommodation unit. The project involves manufacture of 19 Level 1 security doors.

The team at Lietzke Doors are also shipping a new range of Knock-Down pressed metal door frames. The frames are available in 1.4mm or 1.6mm Zincanneal, single or double rebate and can be shipped flat packed with knock down interlocking tabs or mitre welded. Each frame is custom made to suit your exact sizing requirements and options include a full range of fixing and hardware preparations. To find out more contact the sales team at Lietzke Doors on 08 8445 9999.  

Lietzke Rebate Edge Doors withstand Category 5 Cyclone.

On December 22nd last year Cyclone Lawrence crossed over the Western Australian Pilbara Coast at Eighty Mile Beach reeking havoc and causing damage to buildings with very high winds. In some instances portable buildings were moved from their foundations and tipped up. One Lietzke customer however stated that the Lietzke Rebate Edge doors fitted to their portable buildings came through with flying colours, withstood the extreme conditions and still work perfectly.    

Austral Monsoon Building Products - Queensland
AMBP is showing strong growth in the education sector where they are wining a large number of school projects mainly in Queensland and NSW

Recently awarded school projects include:-

Manufacturing and installing the Maxiflow Operable Louvres in a large number of State Schools in Queensland and Morisset High School in New South Wales.

Ambp have also been manufacturing the Stormglaze Operable Louvre for a number of projects including St. George State School in New South Wales, Hillbrook School and Fairhome College in Queensland.

In addition to School projects, AMBP have also been awarded a number of commercial projects such as Ellipsoid Sun Screen with Steel Outriggers for Volkswagen's showroom at Bayford, Victoria, Maxiflow Operable louvres for Mossman Drill Hall in New South Wales and Colmslie Aquatic Centre in Queensland. Two Stage Fixed Louvres and Ellipsoid Sun Shades for the Bus Interchange Darra in Queensland.

A particular project of note is that AMBP have been awarded the plant room louver package for the $60 Million Dollar Office Development at 123 Albert Street Brisbane. AMBP will be supplying the AME 100 Continuous Plant Room Louvers for the building to the head  contractor, Laing O’Rourke.

Austral Monsoon groups Australian operations has appointed audit firm Pitcher Partners to undertake its annual audit of Group accounts as well as Consolidated Tax Return Preparation. Pitcher Partners is an independent member of Baker Tilly International.

After an exhaustive tender process through January & February of this year, it has been decided by the Board that Pitcher Partners was the best fit with our organisation to provide Audit & Taxation services. Classified as ‘second tier’ audit firm, they are well positioned for our international group, and bring a wealth of experience at a very competitive price. We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship.

In order to continue to engage in construction contracts in Queensland. AMBP has renewed its Building Services Authority licence. The licence has been renewed to October 2010. This part year renewal now aligns the licence with our Year End reporting date of 30 June, which reduces work duplication and hence further streamlines activities within the Group

Ansa Doors - Victoria
Ansa Doors Victoria have won the contract to manufacture the roller shutters. The winning contractor, AVC Contructions have awarded Ansa Doors the task of manufacturing and installing the 37 shutters, comprising of both factory units with some commercial shops for the Tullamarine Park Warehouse facilities.

AMI Sydney
Along with John Holland and Joss Constructions joint venture Austral Monsoon Industries Sydney have won the roller shutter component of the $90 Million Kapooka Army Barracks expansion / upgrade which starts shortly. This contract entails the manufacture and installation of 21 new roller shutters to be installed on site. The project includes a variety of Steel, Aluminium roller shutters in the hand, electrically and chain operated configuration.

AMI Sydney
With the growing activity in the construction industry, AW Edwards Constructions have successfully wont the tender for the $150 Million Chatswood Civic Place project. As part of that tender Austral Monsoon Industries were awarded the manufacture and installation of the new roller shutters. The project consists of 19 roller shutters which includes 2 hour fire rated, steel loading dock shutters, E84 aluminium shutters, E87 polycarbonate shutters and E85 aluminium roller shutters.

AMI Sydney
AMI Sydney have now started work onsite for the Richard Crookes Constructions - Lake Illawarra Police Station. The upgrade are specifically designed to suit NSW Police Forces access requirements and involves the manufacture and installation of 8 roller shutters

AMI Newcastle
The Newcastle division of Austral Monsoon Industries in conjunction with Adco Constructions have won the contract for Cardiff Market Place Woolworths. The $15 Million dollar project consts of both Aluminium roller shutters as well as Steel Shutters to the Woolworths specification.

This contract comes close after also having won a similar contract with Mainbrace Constructions for the Woolworths Morisset project valued at $13 Million dollars.

The New Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
The new Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne is a $1 billion redevelopment of the existing hospital and is the largest hospital redevelopment to be undertaken by the State of Victoria.  Austral Monsoon Group Company Ansa Doors has successfully tendered and won the sectional overhead doors and roller shutter works for  this redevelopment.

Contracted to Bovis Lend Lease the Austral Monsoon Group will design, manufacture and install a range industrial / commercial door products in line with the Architects specification to suit this world class health care facility.

With the groups new state of art manufacturing facility in Melbourne group company Ansa Doors is well positioned to deliver another quality product on time.

Fire Doors Manufacture and Installation
I.D.E. which manufactures and installs a range of fire roller shutter doors tested to BS 476:Part 22, with fire resistance from 1 hour to 4 hours - LPS 1056

Service and Repair
Service and repair to all types of industrial doors is carried out to LPC 1197 Standard.

Austral Monsoon purchases Industrial Door Engineering Limited
Austral Monsoon is pleased to announce the acquisition of Industrial Door Engineering Limited (IDE) based in Northwich, Cheshire, England on 12 November 2009.

IDE is a manufacturer of a comprehensive range of industrial roller shutter products including steel, insulated and fire resistant roller shutters.  It installs the products that it manufactures and supplies and installs a large range of other industrial door products including sectional doors, high speed doors and pre-hung hinged metal door units.

IDE has a strong presence in the building and construction markets in north England and Wales.  It also supplies roller shutter products to resellers in England, Scotland and Wales.

IDE provides 24 hour emergency repair services for roller shutters and all other types of industrial doors in the northwest England, north Wales and Yorkshire areas.

As well as its head office in Northwich it has sales, contracting and service operations in Ossett, Yorkshire.

Martin Burke, the General Manager of IDE, has been appointed as the head of Austral Monsoon operations in the UK.  Effective immediatly Martin will oversea the Dover Vanguard Roller Shutters Limited (DVRS) business based on Oldham, England.

The acquisition provides direct synergistic benefits through manufacturing integration of IDE and DVRS operations.  For example, DVRS roll-forms its own lath and guide tracks, manufactures its own hoods and has in-house powder coating paint line.  IDE does not have these capabilities.  Greater utilisation of this equipment will benefit both businesses.

The product lines of IDE and DVRS are similar but IDE is focused on industrial products whereas DVRS is lighter product and relate to commercial and truck door markets.  Therefore, Austral Monsoon's product base in the UK has been greatly expanded through the acquisition.

IDE's employees have a strong roller shutter culture and are extremely experienced.  Austral Monsoon sees the IDE employee base as being a strong asset to leverage on for future growth in the UK market.

For more information on IDE refer to http://www.industrial-door-eng.co.uk/.

Austral Monsoon Industries - Yennora
After a successful number of years manufacturing its Bi-Fold / Fold-Up doors in its Victorian plant, Austral Monsoon Industries is very excited to announce it has started to manufacture these large doors in their Sydney plant as well. The Bi-Fold / Fold–Up doors span from 3 Metres to 8 Metres in height and go from 3 Metres to 30 Metres in width and made in single, 2 or 3 leaf configurations. The doors are generally electrically operated, but options for chain operations are available if required. The cladding of these doors is only limited by ones imagination and is well suited for large building openings.

Lietzke / Austral Monsoon Building Products
Lietzke and AMBP are progressing well on the Alice Springs Correctional centre with an expected completion late August.

Rivers Locking Systems
Rivers Model D Series Locks have easily passed the tests to comply with AS 4145, inturn making the MDS locks acceptable for use in DoC projects.

Austral Monsoon Group company Rivers Locking Systems rolls out the manufacture of there 4 way multi point locking systems as part of the National Security upgrade for St George Bank branches.

AMI Newcastle
Austral Monsoon Newcastle office successfully tenders and wins the roller shutters contract for the new BIG W Jesmond store located in the Newcastle / Hunter region. The project is to be built by Quasar Constructions.

AMI GROUP WINS ALDI TENDER
After months of negotiation with the head contractor Vaughan Constructions Pty Ltd, the Austral Monsoon Group have been awarded the contract to manufacture and install the Roller Shutters at the new Aldi Distribution Facility in Prestons, NSW and Dandenong, VIC.

Mr Paul Zelasko, a company Director of the Austral Monsoon Group, commented that Vaughan Constructions Pty Ltd awarded the contract to the Austral Monsoon Group to supply the 225 Roller Shutters due to our ability to deliver both on quality and time on such large projects where it is not only important to be able to manufacture the shutters but to also be able to deliver and install on time.

Mr. Zelasko also added that these types of projects are well within the groups modern manufacturing facilities throughout Australia which also assist in the negotiation process.