Specialising in commercial upholstery and soft trim solutions for the heavy transport, automotive and indoor sports industries, Rae-Line is a Melbourne-based, family-owned company with more than 50 employees. Brett Vorhauer is the second generation owner and Managing Director of the firm, the son of Ray and Mary Vorhauer who founded the business in 1972. “We have been supplying and fitting the interior trims for Kenworth trucks Australia-wide for more than 40 years,” Mr Vorhauer explains. “Other clients include Iveco, Spotless and the Bounce indoor trampoline centres.” Rae-Line has also supplied canvas seating and seat covers for automotive companies including Toyota and Isuzu. Recently, Rae-Line invested in the latest 3D laser scanning technology to increase efficiency, reduce costs and
(From L-R: Frank Norton, Michael Wanrooy and Stuart Brown) Approximately four hours’ drive east of Mt. Isa lies the small town of Richmond in Queensland. On the western edge of town sits the Pioneer Cemetery, the final resting place for some 300 early Australian settlers according to Richmond Shire Council records. However these days only 35 or so headstones and grave markers are still standing and it is thought some of these may be placed inaccurately. Members of the community and the Council were eager to locate the remaining plots without disrupting the area with excavations. There was concern that many of the burial sites could lie outside the boundaries of the cemetery and perhaps under a carpark
Building Information Modelling or BIM is the latest buzzword in the construction industry, but only now are there viable technology solutions available to enable cross-industry collaboration on a truly meaningful and productive scale. Despite being the largest industry in the world and the fastest growing, construction is inefficient. By 2030 it is believed that construction demand will outweigh global financial capabilities by an estimated 60 trillion US dollars. I think it’s worth spelling that out in numbers for the full effect: USD $60,000,000,000,000. That’s a lot of zeros! In a local context, the construction industry contributes some 100 billion Australian dollars to the country’s GDP and employs around one million people. In such a large sector that is
Topcon has set the standard for general construction lasers with its RL-H4C Series, which combine rugged hardware with advanced technology to deliver accurate, reliable positioning time after time and year after year. Ideal for a wide range of applications such as machine control work, site levelling with slope matching, concreting, foundations and general construction, Topcon’s RL-H4C is the only laser you need on the job! Unlike the many cheap imitations in the market that are uncalibrated and prone to fail after only a short period of time, Topcon lasers are built to last with high-quality Japanese manufacturing complete with 5-year warranty as standard. The RL-H4C does exactly what it says it will, day in, day out and
