366 Days of 2012, Day 203 - Factory Manuele Engineers

As an engineer with a career in manufacturing I'm not ashamed to admit, I love factories.

Some time back we watched the beginning of new creation at the end of Morphett Road near the back of the Adelaide airport. Over several months we observed a building landscape transform into a state of the art industrial premises.

For some months more we guessed what this new facility would be used for. It was clearly a manufacturing premises but while the internal fit-out progressed we just had to guess.

Finally when the signage was put in place we learned that this new building is the new home of Manuele Engineers, a South Australian family business.

The facility is dedicated to complex and high precision steel engineering and fabrication work of which takes up four bays of the facility with one additional bay dedicated to industrial coatings.

I was hoping for this high tech looking building to be some high tech electronics or aerospace type manufacturing facility. Alas its just a paint-shop. A state of the art, high tech paint-shop! Regardless, it is great to see confidence in the future of South Australian manufacturing!


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 203 - Factory Manuele Engineers'. 8 secs f/14 ISO-1600 24mm