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The pair collaborated on the delivery of the Complete Equipment Schedule Cradle Platforms, bringing the manufacture of the systems to Australia.
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Under LAND 8120, Ventia has been contracted to deliver 291 engineer support vehicles to the ADF, including 13 earthmoving and material handling vehicles such as cranes, excavators, front end loaders and telehandlers.
According to the company, each vehicle required unique modifications to meet Defence needs such as air transportability and fording.
Under the program, Ventia also oversaw the delivery of bespoke systems such as transportation cradles and the safe transport of equipment which included buckets, augers and hook blocks.
To achieve this, Ventia partnered with veteran-owned ECLIPS for the design and build of the Complete Equipment Schedule (CES) Cradle Platforms.
“With a priority on Australian industry capability, we wanted to engage a highly capable, Australian-owned company who had resources to design, develop and deliver a bespoke solution,” Richard Cave, Ventia’s LAND 8120 contract manager, said.
The partners transferred the manufacture of the platforms to Australia, strengthening Australian industry capability with ECLIPS building a new fabrication facility in Melbourne.
It is expected that the solution will add $7.1 million to the local economy.
“The support that Ventia and the Commonwealth have provided us has been instrumental in ECLIPS being able to establish our own fabrication capability in Australia. Being able to protect our logistics innovations by keeping the detailed IP in Australia supports the growth of a globally unique logistics engineering capability and progress of genuine export opportunities” says Shaun Moore, managing director of ECLIPS.
“It has been our experience that Ventia has set a new benchmark in authentic project collaboration with SMEs. At ECLIPS, we are very proud of the achievements on this project, but we recognise how important Ventia’s ‘teamwork approach’ has been to our project’s success.”
According to Ventia, the final product is subject to rigorous review with detailed design reviews and a 3D printed model for Defence approval.
