References | Thorburn Engineering

GEA Group Austral'Asia

Thorburn have been engaged as a preferred contractor to GEA since 1994 and have been involved in many of the GEA groups major project operations across Australia and the Pacific. We have at all times been impressed with Thorburns reliability, quality of workmanship and project management.

Peter Lehmann Managing Director GEA Tuchenhagen Austral'Asia

“The quality of the project management and workmanship was of an excellent standard”.

Nick Anskey / Malcolm Pothecary - GEA Senior Process Engineers - Murray Goulburn Dairy Projects, Rochester / Cobram / Kiewa / Leongatha / Koroit / Maffra

WCBF Saputo

Thorburn have worked on a diverse range of projects at our Allansford site since 1993, having awarded Brett Thorburn his first project. I have no hesitation in recommending Thorburn for any dairy, food or beverage projects.

Wayne Moore – Chief Projects Engineer

Brett Thorburns crew have always provided us with quality workmanship and they're there when we need them, rain, hail or shine.

John McLean WCBF General Manager

Fonterra / Bonlac Dairy Foods

We have found Thorburns workmanship to be of excellent standards on various major and plant upgrade projects throughout our operations. I have no hesitation in recommending Thorburn for any dairy, food or beverage projects.

Sam Verde - Group Engineering Manager

Cobden - Darnum - Cororooke - Stanhope - Camperdown - Dennington - Spreyton

Randall Ferguson - Plant Engineer Cororooke

Fonterra Bonlac have engaged Thorburn many times over the years for general upgrades across our site in the cheese, casein and Niro spray drying plants. I have always found Brett and his crew great to work with and happy to assist with any requirements we have.

Richard Narik - Camperdown Engineer

Thorburns have worked for me on the Camperdown site many times performing project and maintenance tasks across the processing plants. Weve always found them very good to deal with.

Peter Inglis - Cobden Engineer

Thorburns have performed many projects, shutdowns and maintenance tasks throughout our Stork dryer, butter, milk and UHT plants. The quality has always been first class and they are happy to go that extra mile in making sure everything works as it should.

Rakesh Aggarwal - Project Engineer

Thorburns have completed many projects for myself our cheese plant in Stanhope and twin spray dryers in Darnum. As we have come to expect from Thorburn, they are always ready to help us out when needed and have become a long term preferred contractor for Fonterra Bonlac.

Accolade Wine Group - Fmr BRL Hardy & Constellation Wines

Thorburn have been engaged as a major projects contractor across our Australian wineries since 1995. Thorburns projects have always been of a high quality and have survived the test of time.

Frank Ross - Group Engineering Manager

Paul Whittenbury, Sam Vickery, Conrad Speight - Major Projects Engineers

(Hardys Wines Reynella - Tintara Wines McLaren Vale - Stanley Wines Buronga NSW - Houghton Wines Swan Valley Perth WA - Houghton Wines Nannup WA - Berri Wines Berri - Renmano Wines Renmark - Leasingham Wines Clare - Yering Station Yarra Valley VIC - Stonehaven Wines Padthaway - Kamberra Wines Canberra)

Kraft Foods Limited

Brett Thorburn and his people have always complied with our specifications and have carried out their work and there obligations to their customer in a very competent professional manner.

Don McKewan – Plant Manager

Peter Winton Chief Engineer Kraft Australia Major Projects Melbourne HQ

Leitchville - Strathmerton – Port Melbourne - Allansford

GEA Huppmann Kitzingen Germany

Lion Brewing Castlemaine Perkins QLD - New Brewhouse & Major Plant Upgrades

Thorburn have at all times approached any task requested of them in a professional manner with all vessels and piping meeting radiographic standards. In all Huppmann GMBH would have no hesitation in contracting Thorburn again for any future brewing projects in the Austral 'Asian region.

Trevor C Lovell – Senior Site Projects Manager (International Projects)

(Further brewery projects have been undertaken for Huppmann at Heineken New Caledonia, SP Breweries PNG (Heineken) and

San Miguel Hong Kong)

Casella Wines Griffith NSW

150.7 klm of SS Piping 25mm to 300mm – 96.8 million litres of tankage piped - 22,750 Man Hours – 75 tradespeople

Thorburn were employed as principal contractor, having won a competitive tender to provide piping design, construction and project management services during our major growth periods 04 /05/06.

All projects were completed to an excellent standard, within budget and completed ahead of schedule.

Matt Boudreau - Head of Major Projects & Steve Derossi Maintenance MGR

(Further general projects have been awarded post major construction phase.)

Nestle Foods Australia

Coffee Spray Dryer Plant Dennington & Milk Spray Dryer Tongala

Thorburn were contracted to undertake piping alterations to our Egron spray dryer plant, Scheffers evaporators and valve matrix overhauls. All work was finished to a high standard and finished on time.

Allan Northy & Colin Leitch - Senior Projects Engineer & Nestle Plant Engineering Manager

(General projects and maintenance also carried out at - Gympie Coffee, Maryborough Confectionary, Smithton Milo)

Fosters Treasury Wine Estates

Thorburns undertook major piping and plant relocation projects at our Penfold Wines Nuriootpa site. Thorburn managed the projects exceptionally well, relocating plant from Barooga NSW whilst simultaneously managing construction at Nuriootpa SA. The project was finished on time, and budget operated to specification and built to a very high standard.

Tom Hester – Southcorp Wines Engineering Director

Murray Goulburn Saputo

Murray Goulburn have contracted Thorburn since there establishment to undertake capital projects and maintenance activities throughout our Victorian and Tasmanian operations. We have no hesitation in recommending Thorburn for any future projects and have always been happy with theyre quality and service.

Dennis Hurren / Tom Paton / Mark Langford / Glen Falcke – MGC Corporate Engineering Group

Cobram - Koroit - Leongatha - Rochester - Kiewa - Leitchville - Maffra - Wynyard - Smithton

NORCO - Tetra Pak Lismore & Raleigh Sites NSW

Thorburn were awarded multiple contracts to undertake major plant upgrades to our Lismore and Raleigh sites. Works included milk reception, wet process areas and new ice cream plant. We have been very happy with Thorburns workmanship and project management.

Rick Werner Norco / Tetra Pak Engineering Projects Team

Cadbury Schweppes Asahi Tullamarine

Syrup Room, Carbonation & Mix Processing Plant

Thorburn were awarded a major contract to undertake new equipment installation, piping, valve matrixes and upgrading of the Cadbury Schweppes Tullamarine multi beverage plant. The project was done during production hours and Thorburn worked seamlessly with our project managers and Cadbury Schweppes staff. On time and of a high quality, exactly what we've come to expect from Thorburns.

Ole Bachmann – Senior Process Engineer GEA Tuchenhagen

Hardy Hawke - Engineering Manager Asahi Schweppes

Dairy Farmers - Lion Co

Thorburn have worked across all of Dairy Farmers processing sites over the years and have always given us first class service and workmanship.

Lyell Pogue - Corporate Engineering Group Sydney

Allansford - Toowoomba - Malanda - Wetherill Park - Clarence Gardens - Mt Gambier

Tri Tech Refrigeration – National Foods Crestmead QLD Greenfield Project

Thorburns were chosen as our project partners for this major project due to there experience in the dairy industry. The scope required all refrigeration piping, support structures and mechanical installation to be undertaken at National Foods new fresh milk site in Crestmead Queensland. Thorburns conducted all site construction activities in a professional efficient manner and were great to work with.

Wayne Wright Managing Director TriTech Australia

Buhler Group Austria – New Castlemaine Perkins XXXX Brewery Brisbane Queensland

Thorburns were awarded the mechanical installation contract to install new bulk malt handling and grains processing equipment into Lion Nathans new brewhouse in Brisbane Australia. All work was carried out to our specification, on time for Buhler and to the high standard we expect.

Buhler International Projects

Tetra Pak Engineering - Capilano Honey Brisbane - New Pasteuriser & Process Plant Upgrade Brisbane

Fixed price, on time and first class quality.

Tony Barnes - Tetra Pak Engineering Australia

(General projects also carried out for Tetra Pak at WCBF, National Foods Crestmead, Norco Raleigh / Lismore / Labrador and Fonterra Stanhope)

Jacobs Creek Rowland Flat - Richmond Grove Tanunda - Heathfield Ridge Naracoorte

Thorburns have worked for Pernod Ricard throughout our winery operations on several projects from general plant upgrades, tank farms to our greenfields winery in Naracoorte where they provided all process and services lines, mechanical installation and flow plates on a fixed price contract.

We've always found Thorburns to be a good company to deal with and happy to work to our project & vintage schedules.

Neil Doddridge – Head Winemaker

Yalumba Wines Angaston

Thorburns were awarded a fixed price tender contract to provide all process and mechanical services to a new fermenter tank farm that we had installed. We found them very good to work with and they were awarded further piping projects throughout the winery.

Tony Brown - Projects Engineer

Lion Nathan Castlemaine Perkins XXXX General Projects

Thorburn have undertaken numerous piping and mechanical installation projects across our brewery site in Brisbane. We have no hesitation in recommending Thorburns for any projects.

Dennis Starkey – Lion Nathan Projects Engineer

Arnott's Biscuits - Bulk Syrup Project Virginia QLD & General Projects Huntingwood Sydney

All pipelines and fabrication were specified as food grade standard. The projects had a high degree of difficulty due to the fact they had to be installed into a running production environment with no interruption to our production processes. Thorburn carried this out exceptionally well, informing our engineering and production management at all times. The quality of the work was first class and the project was finished ahead of schedule.

Steve Perdriau – Projects Engineering Manager

(Further projects awarded at Arnotts Huntingwood Sydney plant)

Nestle Dennington - Niro Milk Spray Dryer Project

Thorburns were awarded the contract to build multiple valve matrixs for our Dennington Nestle project. The workmanship and service was of an excellent standard.

Keith Craven - Senior Projects Engineer GEA Niro Australia

(General projects and upgrades carried out for Niro across most of there spray drying sites)

Wynns Coonawarra Treasury Wines

Thorburn were chosen as a preferred contractor to undertake major process/ services piping and tank farm expansion at our Wynns Coonawarra winery. All projects were conducted in a timely professional manner and completed to a high standard.

Phil Preston & Ken Johnson – Treasury Wines Projects Team

Sun Water Queensland ( Membrane Filtration Plant) – Bamaga Cape York QLD

An extremely tough project logistically, built to our standards and on time.

Albert Ho – Senior Projects Engineer Veolia Australia

Further projects completed for Veolia across Coliban Water and Sydney Water Filtration Plants

WEIR VEOLIA JV Ranger Uranium - mine process water treatment plant.

Tooheys Brewery Lidcombe - GEA Liquid Process Technologies

Thorburn were awarded a number of projects throughout the brewery as a part of a general process efficiency upgrade. Thorburns have been a reliable partner of GEA Tuchenhagen for our brewery projects and this one was no different, everything built to expectation and on time.

Ole Bachmann Senior Process Engineer GEA Tuchenhagen

(Further projects for DANBREW Denmark have also been completed at the Lidcombe site)

McClunie Birch Limited - Australia & New Zealand - Tetra Pak & Stork Friesland Agents

McClunie Birch Ltd have engaged Thorburns as a preferred mechanical installation & process piping contractor on several major projects throughout Australia. We have always been satisfied with there professionalism, service and quality of workmanship.

Stork spray dryer & evaporator upgrade – Fonterra Cobden

New milk receival, wet process / standardisation plant & CIP – WCBF

New milk standardisation plant and milk receival – Fonterra Stanhope

Cheese plant upgrade – Fonterra Stanhope

New Stork twin spray dryers – Fonterra Darnum Park

Fresh milk plant upgrade – National Foods Moorabbin

Project Directors - Gabrielle Lyons, Andrew Wilson, John Birch

Simplot Foods Ulverstone Tasmania

Through the GEA Group, Thorburns were awarded the construction and installation of a new CIP system and complete piping reticulation to all major processing equipment throughout the plant. In addition on completion, Thorburns were also awarded further project work throughout our potato processing plant.

In all we are very satisfied with there conduct and quality of workmanship.

Bryan Tuit - Simplot Plant Manager