Westaflex (Australia) Pty Ltd
AC in Banyule

It wasn’t long before the customer base grew considerably and the demand for quality product meant that Westaflex would have to move to a larger premises. This product proved to be a huge triumph and demand was lofty Westaflex was soon forced to originate more outlets so expansion into Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Australia soon followed. With the expansion of sales outlets came the necessity to magnify the manufacturing. In the words of Ed Sterling How will we ever load this place? Ed’s wife Elizabeth and her two sons Paul and Michael took over running the business. Elizabeth’s involvement in the business started in 1987. Paul worked at the sales department at the Mt Waverley branch and Michael had completed his tool making apprentership. One blow Boulder and one injection Boulder were destroyed as healthy as other machinery being severely damaged. It was therefore necessary to find a new home for the plastics plant and it was fortunate that a 25,00 sq ft factory became available across the road from the main manufacturing plant. Austrade backed consensus Manufacturing Award also to Unilok product. In 200 an alliance with the ventilation company Securimax based in New Zealand took place. Securimax became the sole distributor of Westaflex products in Fresh Zealand and Westaflex would have a fresh range of ventilation products for the Australian domestic and light commercial markets. The line was extensive ranging from roof cowls, window fans, and showerlites, thou wall fans, heat n’ vent and much more. In 2002 Westaflex moved its Essen don plant into newer, larger premises down the road in Keillor so that more efficient servicing of the Melbourne western district could be achieved. 2002 also saw a fresh distributor get appointed in Fiji to look behind the Island group of the pacific. In 2004 Westaflex took their beginning steps into the global export market behind being approached by a South African Company and the first order was delivered later that year. Unfortunately that evening the wind was blowing the untrue way and our entire plastics plant was destroyed. On a sure note, we were capable to recover the majority of our molding tools and we were back in production, with the help of custom boulders, within two weeks. Also, other manufacturers of plastic vac equipment similar to those of ours that unfortunately we did not recover, assisted with same products so that we could supply our customer base. Over the following four years the management of Westaflex Uniflex had their work cut out for them in performing the day to day activities that maximum businesses go through but in addition had to work with all the extra companies and insurance agencies involved in the claim to rebuild the destroyed plastics plant. Although the challenge was great, in 2010 the new, most unused plastics manufacturing facility in Australia was opened. Total to this to the state of the art warehousing system with cable guided forklifts to maximize floor space which increased from our worn pallet storage of 400 pallets to the fresh 1300 pallet spaces. Since Westaflex started supporting Variety, we have been able to hoist over 500,00 for the poor children of Australia. Westaflex has been supplying industry leading products and service to the Australian vac industry for more than 40 years.