A member of Nepean Group
Our History
Mr Ronald E Graham established the Graham Group in 1955. It was a pioneer business in the 1950’s in design and drafting, originating as a drawing office. The business commenced with 5 staff and within 3 years it had grown up to 120 employees. The company has continually grown over the years and now in 2011, 350 people are now employed by Graham Group. It has since developed into an integrated steel product manufacturing business, with a complementary galvanising business. Graham Group has developed its facilities in recent years beyond that of a typical steel processing business, with the construction of the Hot Rolling Mill, Heavy Gauge Slitter and Beam Line manufacturing facility.
Key Milestones
| 1955 | Graham Group originated as a drawing office | |
| 1959 | Commenced the WELDLOK® business in NSW | |
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| 1963 | Commenced the Galserv® business | |
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| 1978 | Built and installed forge welder and slitter for Weldlok® business | |
| 1979 | Upgraded Galserv® facility by installing a baghouse filtration system | |
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| 1980 | Acquired land and buildings in Coffs Harbour and established Coffs Harbour Galserv® | |
| 1981 |
Patented and began cold-formed pre-cut galvanised lintels used in the building industry, |
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| 1982 | Galintel® established a presence in WA | |
| 1983 | Weldlok® introduced the BALLTUBE® handrail system and launched the Gully Grate drainage product range | |
| 1984 | Galintel® improved the design of the Galintel® product with the launch and patent registration of the Galintel® Solid Base lintel bar. | |
| 1988 | The Hot Rolling Mill project commenced with the objective of creating a rolling mill (described as a micro mini mill) for the purpose of producing hot rolled steel products | |
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| 1991 | Construction of the Hot Rolling Mill commenced in late 1989, with trial rolling in 1991 | |
| 1994 | Management made the decision to convert the Hot Rolling Mill from a merchant bar mill into a strip mill | |
| 1995 | Development of an in-house and in-line manufacturing equipment to produce Mastermesh®products, namely Flormesh®, Mastermesh® and the Uniflow drainage system. Further development of Intrudermesh® product was performed in March 1998 | |
| 1998 |
The Heavy Gauge Slitter was installed. A 32 tonne capacity gantry crane to handle average mill edge coils of 25 tonne weight was also installed. Galintel® commenced a major refurbishment program of its facilities at Coffs Harbour by the installation of a filtration baghouse, a hood crane with sliding doors, fully enclosing the galvanising bath when operational, and upgrading the office and factory buildings. Weldlok® WA installed a production line slitter allowing for greater flexibility and usage of material, bringing WA manufacturing in line with the Yagoona facility |
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| 1999 | The Galintel® Multi Rib flat section was produced on the Hot Rolling Mill and launched into the market, replacing a flat bar section previously purchased from BHP Steel | |
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| 2002 | Commenced upgrade of Hot Rolling Mill to include angle bar stacking system | |
| 2003 | Installed new galvanising kettle at Galserv® Coffs Harbour | |
| 2004 |
Produced in line formed multi rib section (“MR”) angle |
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| 2007 | Acquired by Nepean Group | |
| 2008 | Heavy gauge slitter cut to length line installed | |
| 2009 | Aluminium swaging machine installed | |
| 2010 |
Light gauge slitter installed H Beam Welding Line installed |
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