Hydraulics partner for mining across Australia
AUSTRALIAN manufacturer Southcott Pty has been involved in hydraulics since 1954, beginning with the design and development of axial piston pumps and motors.
The company is a market leader both as a reliable supplier of quality products, and in servicing diverse industries.
It provides innovative reputable system solutions and is a major force in hydraulics.
Its team of engineers and technicians have an extensive understanding of the hydraulic industry and can provide expert and highly skilled hydraulic system designs, product supply, onsite services, control integration, installation, commissioning, training and technical support.
As a trusted name in hydraulics, Southcott works closely with various industries across Australia, including the mining, agriculture, construction, mobile, industrial, defence and marine sectors.
The company has an extensive product range of hydraulic components available from local and world leading brands.
The Southcott family has been involved in designing and manufacturing of more than 134 years.
Today Southcott is recognised as a manufacturer of hydraulic pumps, motors, valves, manifolds, power units, control systems and Child hose couplings and adaptors.
Southcott manufacturing facilities are fitted with state-of-the-art CNC machinery, impulse and burst testing equipment to ensure precision and quality production.
It is one of the largest manufacturers of hydraulic hose couplings and adaptors manufactured in Australia.
With four manufacturing facilities, this enables a more systematic approach with fast reaction time for special orders to meet industry demands.
The company’s dynamic culture, combined with a national network of 10 branches, four manufacturing facilities, electronic division and more than 150 distributors nationwide gives Southcott the leading market advantage.
Southcott prides itself on safety, quality and reliability offering industry leading service that delivers complete hydraulic solutions.
ESTABLISHED five years ago, and locally owned and operated, Perth-based OMG Engineering provides complete engineered solutions for mining/ exploration, drilling and oil and gas industries.
OMG partners with some of WA’s leading drilling companies, providing a range of services from hydraulic cylinder manufacture, rebuild and repair, through to drill rig repairs and custom truck body design and modifications.
Built with in-house engineering and drafting capability, along with more than 30 years of combined industry experience, OMG works with customers across a range of industry.
The company’s well-equipped workshop in Welshpool is capable of custom machining and milling to exact customer requirements, from precision machining and turning through to heavy industrial components.
OMG offer turnkey services comprising multiple CNC lathes and milling machines (up to 5m) as well as general machining and milling including tapping, drilling, threading, grinding, gear cutting, part hardening, precision fitting and assembly.
All machining and fitting work is fully production and quality tested.
Since 2017, OMG has become known for its quality truck modifications.
It has completed many truck refurbishment projects, helping clients get the most from their on road assets, including custom truck bed mounted fuel transfer tanks, truck bed rebuilds, bespoke tool boxes, Hiab crane modifications, guards and railings, hydraulic systems, pinch free ladder access systems and tilt tray rebuilds.
Always innovating, in 2018, OMG
Engineering designed and patented (pending) an integrated pinch free truck access ladder system.
The completely pinch and crush-point free ladder is designed to eliminate the types of crush and manual handling injuries that plague other truck ladders and access systems.
Free space around all components meets strict client safety regulations, making the system mine site compliant.
The system includes a unique radial clutch, fully enclosed and suitable for applications (not just ladders) where stored energy, a fall from height or manual handling risks are present.
In early 2020, OMG undertook its largest project to date.
It will modify a Hanjin drill rig (and three ancillary support rigs) to operate effectively on salt lakes in WA’s Goldfields region.
Each rig’s track base must be modified to exert no more than 2 PSI of pressure on the lake surface.
This will involve modifying existing CAT track base and chains to incorporate custom designed ‘paddles’, expanding surface area contact with the lake surface and therefore reducing surface pressure.
OMG will rebuild the rigs from the ground up including all fabrication, hydraulics, rod sloop systems, as well as configuring the three support rigs.
HYDRAULIC specialists Custom Fluidpower is skilled in providing superior fluid power solutions for its clients Australia- wide including those in the mining sector.
With 20 years of experience in the hydraulic industry, the Australian company’s highly- trained engineers can solve fluid power problems with its tried and tested methods.
Custom Fluidpower has an end- to- end approach to its clients and is involved in each stage of the fluid power solutions process, from system design through to power unit manufacturing, commissioning and training.
The firm is effectively a one- stop provider for supplying high quality hydraulic, pneumatic, filtration, lubrication and electronic products and services for fluid power applications.
The company is capable of designing, assembling, manufacturing and installing fluid power products and services for its clients.
Custom Fluidpower has two manufacturing facilities, and Custom Fluidpower manufactures safe brakes, manifolds and undertakes intricate hydraulic equipment repairs.
The business serves a range of industry clients ranging from the mining and construction industries, materials handling and industrial sectors, transport and marine, and defence and agriculture sectors.
Mining projects
Custom Fluidpower has worked on several key mining- related projects, including the refurbishment of a ship access ladder at an Australian coal terminal.
The company won a recent order from Brevini that was supplying long travel drives for some stacker and reclaimer units built by German engineering firm ThyssenKrupp.
Custom Fluidpower’s involvement was to design, construct and test a suitable hydraulic braking system for the stacker and reclaimer units.
This system used one power unit for each machine’s 14 calipers, or a total of 42 calipers, and three power units.
Custom Fluidpower’s unique power system design has a dual redundancy, SIL 2 system with remote monitoring capability.
Space was at a premium in the stacker and reclaimer units and by using only one power unit per machine the company was able to meet this design issue.
The firm’s engineers designed a specific caliper manifold for the project that allowed fresh oil to be used for every braking application.
Used oil was then filtered in the power unit, ready for re- use in the calipers.
The firm’s engineers also fitted seven Dana SAC ( Brevini) drive gearbox assemblies to each side of the stacker and reclaimer units, a total of 14 gearboxes for each machine.
The gearbox assembly of each stacker and reclaimer machine has one custom- made safe brake caliper, and a single hydraulic unit operates all 14 calipers on one reclaimer or stacker unit.
The brake assemblies operate as a holding brake and an emergency stop brake for each stacker and reclaimer machine.