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Fitt Resources chooses Coast to expand

Fitt Resources, a sales and service engineering company that specialises in sealing applications for industry, has relocated their operations to North Gosford from Castle Hill. As a first step the company moved its Reliability Centre to North Gosford last year and has now relocated their Head Office to the same site. “This move brings all our operations under one roof with the exception of our specialist Defence Force facility at Garden Island in Sydney,” said Managing Director, Greg Fowler.

Fitt Resources was established in 2008 from the amalgamation of Chesterton Australia and Flow Management Services (FMA). Fitt Resources bought Chesterton Australia’s operations following the US parent’s decision to follow their global policy working through accredited distributors. Chesterton has had a presence in Australia for over forty years which now continues through Fitt Resources.

Mr Fowler had been the company’s General Manager. At the same time FMA, which had been providing a servicing operation in the field for Chesterton and other companies, brought their business under the Fitt Resources umbrella giving the new business an extended engineering capability.

Fitt Resources now represents Chesterton, Summit Pump, LAKOS Corporation, Isomag, The Hellan Strainer Company, EnviroSeal Engineering Products, Selco Seal Gaskets and Blackmer. The company’s Operations Manager, Chris Jury said, “We are committed to representing world class manufacturers and to providing superior quality assurance. Our ISO 9001 Certification is proof that we see our business growing through this commitment.”

Fitt Resources employs a total of 24 people of which six work out of the North Gosford facility.

Investment allowance brings in orders for Pro Ali Design

North Gosford manufacturer of stainless steel conveyor systems and equipment for the food industry, Pro Ali Design, has booked more than $7 million in orders, partly as a result of the Federal Government’s investment allowance.

Company Founder, Miles Fink said that while the company had had a quiet first half the investment allowance had obviously brought forward capital spending. “We have six major orders from chicken, lamb and beef abattoirs in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne and we are now working eleven hour days,” said Mr Fink. “We normally design and manufacture around four hundred conveyor systems annually but we will put out about 630 this year.”

Mr Fink said that Pro Ali Design had received the orders from regular customers who they have done work for over many years. “We have a very strong relationship with our customers. They know our experience and our design and manufacturing capabilities and they trust us.”

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