Marion 8750 walking-arm refurbishment, with the propel gear case changed out in situ in the Bowen Basin.
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Integrated departments
Seven integrated departments, one 9,000 m² floor.
Fabrication, slew bearings, induction hardening, machining, fitting, painting and engineering all sit under one roof in Paget — so work moves between them without ever leaving the building. A dragline gear case can be stripped, condition-assessed, re-machined, hardened, fitted and painted on the same floor it arrived on.
That integration is why we repair all in house, 24/7, and quote the envelope — not just the job. Below, each department is set out with its named equipment and verified capacity, followed by the full machine-envelope matrix.
Submerged-arc, TIG and MIG fabrication led by accredited Welding Supervisors over certified welders and boilermakers — plus ABC's patented ABClad hard-surfacing for wear life on dragline components, dippers and buckets.
Australia's only large bearing manufacturer. We manufacture, refurbish and repair slew bearings for the major OEM fleets — condition-assessing OEM bearings and rebuilding them, fully warranted, for as little as 30% of replacement cost.
Queensland's most modern commercial induction-hardening facility — case-hardening slew bearings, drums and sheaves, shafts, pins and drive sprockets to a controlled depth, then stress-relieving or normalising in a gas-fired oven before final machining.
Power200–400 kW · 3–10 kHz
HardnessTo 60 HRC at 3–15 mm depth
Stress-relieve oven6.5 m × 5.5 m × 2.7 m, to 800 °C
The largest machine shop north of Brisbane. Floor borers, vertical borers, gear cutters and heavy lathes turn dragline drums, slew rings, gear cases and baseplates to drawing — every job leaving with a detailed QA package.
Gear-case and main-machinery overhaul to OEM specification — stripped, measured, re-bushed and reassembled with full clearance records. Tightly integrated with fabrication, machining and painting so a complete rebuild never leaves the floor.
Jacking pressesTo 600 t
ScopeGear cases & main-machinery overhaul to OEM spec
Integration24/7 in-house repair across departments
Abrasive blasting and protective coatings to industrial and marine specification — airless and conventional spray applied by trade-accredited painters, with surface-prep and DFT records captured for the QA package.
In-house drawing office support for every department — 3D modelling, finite-element analysis and reverse engineering, with drafting to Australian standard so the shop floor and the client work to one verified set of numbers.
The plant that sets the envelope. Where a job lands inside these limits, we machine, harden, fit and finish it in house — read it like a calibration sheet.
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Equipment capability matrix — machine, envelope, maximum workpiece mass and typical application.
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02Working envelope
03Max workpiece mass
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CNC floor borer
13 m travel · 6 m column
150 t
Dragline drums, gear cases, large weldments
CNC vertical borer
Ø 5 m · 18 t table
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Slew rings, crusher shells, sheave wheels
CNC twin-post vertical borer
Ø 3.5 m · 18 t table
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Bearing housings, flanged rings, bowls
CNC gear cutter
External / internal to Ø 5.5 m
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Slew gears, pinions, dragline gearing
Heavy CNC lathes
Long-bed heavy turning
40 t+
Shafts, rollers, trunnions, journals
Induction hardening
200–400 kW · 3–10 kHz · to 60 HRC
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Slew bearings, shafts, pins and bushes, drive sprockets
Stress-relieve / normalise oven
6.5 × 5.5 × 2.7 m · to 800 °C
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Post-weld stress relief, normalising
Jacking presses (fitting)
Press & pull operations
600 t
Bearing & bush change-out, assembly
Dual overhead cranes
12 m under hook · 10 × 10 × 35 m access
150 t
In-house lift, turn and load-out
Specifications indicative · [DIRECTORS] confirm floor-borer travel/mass and oven dimensions before publication.
Selected projects
Proof, in the envelope.
Mining · Bowen Basin
Marion 8750 walking arm
Walking-arm refurbishment with the propel gear case changed out in situ — engineered, machined and fitted to return the dragline to service.
In-situ change-out · returned to service
Mining · dragline
BMA Peak Downs shutdown
Principal contractor on a six-week ROM shutdown — planned, resourced and delivered across fabrication, machining and field crews.
6-week ROM shutdown · principal contractor
Slew bearings · rebuild
Slew-bearing rebuild
An OEM slew bearing condition-assessed, rebuilt and warranted — returned to the fleet for a fraction of the replacement cost.
From 30% of replacement · warranted
[DIRECTORS] confirm projects are publicly nameable before publication.
Credentials
Certified, accredited, and trusted on the major fleets.
Quality & accreditation
ISO 9001 — reissue in progress [Directors]
Worldwide Slew Bearing Alliance with BMT — a global bearing-rebuild network
Drafting to AS1100 · detailed QA packages on all work
QLD Labour Hire Licence LHL-01983-S5B8T
Equipment we service
Slew bearings, draglines and shovels across the major OEM fleets.
KomatsuLiebherrO&KCaterpillarHitachiMarionBucyrus
[DIRECTORS] confirm OEM wordmark usage rights.
Request a quote
Tell us the job. We'll tell you the envelope.
Send the drawing or the broken part. The team that repairs all in house, 24/7, will scope it across all seven departments and come back with a quote and a QA plan.
