National Pump & Energy (NPE) are one of Australia’s leading pump, power and compressed air hire equipment specialists.

NPE deliver superior water management, power generation and compressed air solutions to an array of industries including municipal, civil, construction, quarrying, mining, oil & gas and agriculture.

NPE has an extensive range of equipment for hire and sale including:
• Silenced contractor pumps
• High head and high flow pumps
• Submersible pumps
• Sludge and slurry pumps
• Bore pumps
• Pontoon pump systems
• Generators up to 1250kVa
• Air compressors
• Hose, HDPE pipe and fittings

The NPE key difference is that they don’t just offer a piece of equipment, they offer a complete solution for your requirements.

The NPE supply process involves an analysis and investigation of your site requirements by the highly experienced and qualified NPE team. They understand that not all applications are the same and what works on one site may not work at another. They take the time to understand your requirements and supply the most suitable equipment. This process ensures complete system effectiveness, reliability and cost efficiencies.

When it comes to pumping, power generation or compressed air equipment, NPE is your total solutions provider.

Nobles is Australia’s leading specialist provider of lifting and rigging equipment, technical services and engineering design for complete lifting solutions.

With a company history dating back over 100 years Nobles has 13 locations across all mainland states of Australia and the Northern Territory supplying and servicing geographically dispersed and highly demanding industries including: utilities, mining, oil and gas, cranes and construction, shipping and transport, manufacturing and defence as well as other agricultural and industrial sectors.

Our state warehousing and production centres carry substantial stock and can undertake the manufacture and testing of our products which include: wire rope, strand and terminations; wire rope, synthetic and chain slings; lifting, general purpose and mooring chain; hoisting and winching equipment; lifting and rigging components, hardware and accessories; height safety harnesses and equipment and electronic load measuring systems.

Nobles also provides a range of in-house customer engineering and technical services for all your highly specialised and complex lifting and rigging needs including: engineering design, manufacture and audit of standard and special lifting gear; developing custom lifting procedures; assessment of lifting gear and cranes for repair and maintenance; on-site testing, inspection and asset management; destructive and non-destructive testing and crane servicing, inspection and assessment.

Nowra Chemical Manufacturers Pty Ltd was established in 1977 by John and Fay Lamont as a family owned business which employed only 2 people. Now on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Nowchem the business is well established at its South Nowra Base.

Currently, Nowra Chemical Manufacturers occupies over 5 acres, with 2 manufacturing sites, warehouse / distribution centre, administration building, an additional adjoining storage facility and employs over 65 people, including 5 Industrial Chemists.

Industry Certifications:

 ISO 9001 certified since 1993

TGA licence for Topical products

APVMA licence

Organic Production Certification via OFC

Working to ISO 14000 Environmental Standard

Member Responsible Care and PACIA

Members of ACCORD and Family Business Australia

Warehouse and Distribution Centre

The Warehouse and Distribution Centre was opened in March 1997. The facility stores over 500 pallets (raw materials and finished product) and was built to meet the growing needs of the business.

The undercover area can hold two semi-trailers for loading and unloading from both sides and is licensed for the storage of Class 3, 5, 6 and 8 dangerous goods. Liquid Aluminium Sulphate has been the largest volume product produced on the site for 39 years.

Many other products are currently manufactured, including: Cleaning Products; Industrial Chemicals; Organic Reactions; Wax Emulsions; Polymers, Flammable Blending, Cosmetics and Pharmaceutical products.

Plant and Manufacturing Capabilities

The manufacturing facility consists of 38 mixing vessels. These vary in size from 200 litres to 20,000 litres.

Nowra Chemicals also has 20 bulk storage tanks for raw materials and finished product stock holdings. Nowra Chemical Manufacturers has 3 stainless steel reactors that will work under vacuum and temperatures up to 300° C.

The plant is generally stainless steel with 3 glass reactors and 1 rubber lined reactor. Some tanks in the plant contain both coils and jacket for heating and cooling. The manufacture of esters and other raw material bases generally occurs in 3 specialty vessels (10 tonne, 3 tonne and 1.2 tonne).

Dedicated manufacturing rooms for TGA and cosmetic products are also situated on the site. The Pharmaceutical area has 3 x 3000L tanks, a 250kg Cream mixer, as well as other smaller tanks and a filling line for bottles from 100ml to 1.25L. Tube sealing for sunscreen and similar products is also available.

The Cosmetic Room carries Organic Certification with OFC for the production of “Certified Organic Cosmetics” such as creams, hair shampoos and conditioners.

The Water Directorate currently has 89 members. Membership of the Water Directorate is open to all councils and county councils providing water supply and/or sewerage services to local government areas in NSW.