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In
1970 we moved our factory to Hoxton Park and
display to Lansvale. Lansvale display was the largest in NSW. Over the years the activities have included:-
From early days in our business, innovation and reworking of fibre cement has been a specialty activity of Guardian - we have cut, guillotined, laminated, shaped, joined, milled, patterned and painted product to meet special needs. Product has been supplied to every State in Australia and exported. AAC product and mouldings have recently been added to our major product range. |
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In the late
70's we moved to Minto. We were one of the first factories in the area
and within a short time we purchased the block behind us. Another factory
was built which gave us access to Airds, Essex and
Lincoln Streets. James Hardie and Co appointed us as an exclusive distributor of pipes. |
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In the late 80's we purchased an 10,000 sq meter Industrial Site at Minto and custom built a 3000 sq. metre factory and admin complex to meet our growing range of products. Since development of this site over five million dollars of equipment and machinery have been installed to enable a better working environment for workers and provide a faster more accurate product for our clients. Site work has been introduced for a range of products. This enables our customers to reduce on site labour to meet an 'on-budget' and 'on-time' situation. The teams carrying out this work have accuracy and quality control as their paramount concerns. In
2008, we will celebrate our 50th Anniversary, however whilst we still
specialise in fibre cement we now handle light weight mouldings,
coatings, AAC blocks, panels and fibre composite products. We are
further developing an export market
for manufactured products and now have distributors in all states.
Following the closure of the Building Information Centre at Homebush, the company purchased a property in Pennant Hills Rd Carlingford where an Architect was engaged to create a temporary home display featuring the range of products we make and sell. Guardian Building Products captures many innovative concepts in the market place and our motto is - "Shaping New Ideas". |
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In late 2001 we moved to Wetherill Park to service customers better from a more central location. This area has worked well. Research
and development has always been a dominant
factor in our business and we generally look at new products and
services well in advance, which we will introduce to our customers
progressively over the next decade.
In
2005 we moved our factory to Penrith. During our time at Penrith we
performed research on our new Fibaloy products with excellent results.
Shortly, we will be moving our factory & research to an
undisclosed
location within Australia to further research the wide range of
possibilities for Fibre Composite Products.
In
2005 we established a depot at Coopers Plains to facilitate the
appointment of a distributor for our NEW Fibaloy PRODUCTS.
In 2006 we established a depot in Victoria Street, Wetherill Park for the purpose of facilitating distributors in NSW and throughout Australia & New Zealand for Fibre Composite development. Guardian
remains a private family company since
inception. The third generation is presently training hopefully to
carry on and improve the service that has always been our aim and
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In 2007 we established a sales office in Powers Road, Seven Hills and relocated our factory to the Richmond area. Seven Hills is a central area which will assist our customers from the city, west, north and south. We now have distributors for Fibaloy Columns in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. |
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Temporary Location. |
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Graham G. Tomkins Timber Agent in 1958. In 1960 the business relocated
to Orange Grove Road, Liverpool - in fact, the first industrial
undertaking in that road - and the original factory building of timber
was still standing until the year 2001. Within 2 years of commencement
the indigenous timber agency was the largest of its type in Australia.
In
1960 we re-commenced our association with fibre cement in 1952
- one of our early contracts was the corrugated sheet for Maxwell House
in Orange Grove Road. Fibre cement has been purchased from local and
overseas world class companies. Over $100 million worth of this product
has been sold since our commencement.
In
the early 90's we opened another store a
Geebung. We became a Distributor for James Hardie similiar to our NSW
store. Steve Tinworth was appointed Manager and now owns this store.
