Bremco Metal Products has always prided itself on being a 100 per cent authentically local company. Managing Director Brett Moody discusses the company’s crane attachments capabilities, local manufacturing and the importance of safe, quality products in the lifting and rigging industry.
Bremco Metal Products has been operating in the Australian marketplace for over 27 years. Starting its journey in 1996, founder and director Brett Moody was set on providing a locally sourced, locally manufactured service to the local market.
In-house, Australian manufacturing has always been at the core of Bremco’s operations; 100 per cent Australian owned and operated, the Brisbane based company commenced its operations as a sole trader business working in general and structural metal fabrication.
What the company did need to find, however, was areas to grow the business in. After identifying a gap in the forklift market early into its journey, Bremco moved quickly to begin working with products in the crane industry by manufacturing custom-made lifting attachments.
Some of Bremco’s products appear in industries such as warehouses, manufacturing, mining, construction, and transport. Now, working in a close capacity with a range of lifting and rigging suppliers such as Bullivants and Independent Rigging Stores – as reported in the November issue of Cranes and Lifting – Bremco is seeing its products perform in the lifting industry on a regular basis.
“We have been exceptionally happy servicing the crane industry and working within the manufacturing guidelines of the relevant Australian Standards,” says Brett.
“This allows Bremco to better inform our clients rather than purchasing cheap imported products that do not meet the required code.”
Today, the crane attachments division at Bremco consists of a significant portion of the company’s portfolio. Its general crane attachments feature a range of combination beams, crane bulk bag lifters, crane lift pallet hooks, equaliser plates, lifting beams, and spreader beams, along with a variety of site cages and bins.
Additionally, Bremco assists with design, manufacture and test tagging of custom lifting products through close collaboration between in-house engineers and external rigging teams, according to Brett.
“One of our customers was needing to lift roof sheets at 30m long and weighing up to 1.5 tonnes per pack, within their factory,” he says. “Bremco was pleased to work closely with our design team to solve the issues at hand and produce a lifting beam that would offer fixed and telescoping lifting options on sheets from 12m through to 30m.”
Bremco has consistently prided itself on custom-manufacturing crane attachments from initial design through to its attachment on the crane itself. With all its bespoke products featuring fully welded construction, Bremco also designs and load-tests its products in accordance with the Australian Standard AS4991 (AS1418.17 for its crane man boxes).
“Bremco is exceptionally proud of the stocked and customised products we manufacture in-house,” says Brett. “We feel that there is nothing better than good old Aussie-made that leaves a certain amount of security when out there lifting people and products on the end of a crane.”
READ MORE: Crane attachments from start to finish with Bremco.
The way the company achieves this is through regular consultation with its engineering partners to ensure every product meets every standard. Part of Bremco’s stringent testing requirements include weld testing to ensure structural integrity, testing its products on site with testbeds up to 100-tonne capacity, hydraulic testing rigs, load cells and using dead weights to formulate a testing regime for each product.
With crane lifting equipment designed to offer more versatile lifting operations, Bremco strives to supply the Australian market with safe, durable, effective lifting equipment that supports local business.
