Why does a general engineering and sheetmetal fabrication company manufacture nursery horticultural equipment and machineries?
The original founder lived next to a large nursery in Girraween, Western Sydney who wanted to improve their processes of moving potting mix, potting plants and moving plants out into the nursery paddocks. That was over 50 years ago. From working on potting machinery we have evolved to offer our clients and customers self-tracking nursery trailers, soil mixers, shade houses, nursery benching and other nursery equipment.
C-Mac now has a reputation for strong, reliable and functional nursery machinery and equipment across Australia.
In addition to our standard products a lot of specials have been designed, manufactured and installed over the years e.g. soil recycling trammel.
Additionally, to expand our product range and keep a reputable product available to the industry, C-Mac invested in the "Spring Benching" business.
C-Mac has been involved all these years in the Nursery and Garden Industry NSW & ACT attending many functions, field days, seminars and allied trade initiatives.
Utilizing pot levies doing R & D work on pot-handling and soil pasteurisation. Supplying to order what is most needed by nurseries has helped develop or evolve our equipment. C-Mac is always interested in feedback and improvement of its products.
If you cannot find what you exactly need or you need something special, remember we are the designer and manufacturer (Australian Made) we can help you solve your material handling problems.
For frequently asked questions about C-Mac see our FAQ page.
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*[Owner]* An industrial laundry system service company needed repairs and redesign done to their tooling. C-Mac made changes to the tooling to make access and ease of use to decrease service down times.
*[Service Manager]* An industrial fan service company had a failure of a major shopping centre air conditioning fan/ blower. C-Mac repaired the unit within a 24hr turn around for minimum downtime.
*[Owner/Manager]* A major food manufacturer specializing in tomato sauce had a filling machine breakdown. The machine was brought to C-Mac and repaired in 24hrs for minimum downtime of the production line costing $5,000 per hour.
*[RAAF - Warrant Officer]* Airfield support staff required a portable sandbagging frame and requested a design, prototype and trials at no cost. There was nothing suitable on the market i.e. made in Australia. "Sandbagging Frames":materials-handling/1-bagging-equipment#silt-bagging-frame are now on the national procurement data base and some probably overseas at different war zones.
*[Mechanical Design Engineer]* An automotive transmission design customer needed help with designing an automatic transmission gear prototype. We suggested and engineered a more cost effective and practical way for the mass production stage.
*[Nursery Manager]* At an exhibition saw our self tracking nursery trailers and indicated he had a costly issue transporting large (heavy) pots containing advanced trees. Existing method was a bobcat. C-Mac designed and quoted for the manufacture of a Self Tracking “Low Loader”. His comment on the first day of using "Low Loader trailer":nursery-equipment/7-trailers/#low-loader-self-tracking-trailer “Can now move 100 litre pots with trees, 150 metres in 1 hr and not get a sore back”.
*[Purchasing Officer]* A mining design and machining company needed help with machining components urgently as they were too busy to keep up with the demand. C-Mac machined the components so the deadline could be met.
*[General Manager]* Customer had to submit a proposal and compete against other countries for the manufacturing facility. C-Mac submitted drawings to show there was space in existing plant to install the new process and to comply with all Australian OH&S Standards. Working together with customer to submit proposal to the Head Office overseas WON the contract. Project was a success meeting 6month lead time and budget.
*[Nursery Owner]* Needed a specific Potting & Mixing machine. for his yuccas nursery, but the problem was it was no longer manufactured. From his description and specifications our engineers designed and modelled in 3D software his requirements. "Potting Machine":nursery-equipment/3-potting-machines/ was manufactured and fully tested with potting media in our workshop, video was then sent to customer who was very pleased with the results. Machine disassembled and freighted interstate and installed.
*[Maintenance Engineer]* An industrial hydraulic fitting manufacturer had problems with gear and shaft breakages with their machinery. They also had problems repairing and maintaining. C-Mac offered to repair and maintain their machinery on-site instead of having to permanently employ fitters.
21/64 Drummond St
South Windsor NSW 2756
Phone: (02) 9631 6000