Bulk Handling Technologies and Total Rockbreaking Solutions’ partnership enables quarries to access better equipment solutions.
Total Rockbreaking Solutions (TRS) and Bulk Handling Technologies (BHT) share a lot. They’re located in the same headquarters in Kewdale, Western Australia, and even share a director in Paul Ingleson.
Ingleson launched BHT six months before he partnered with Jeff Jackson and Mark Godsell to create TRS. All three remain involved in the business.
The similarities are not immediately apparent, given BHT’s focus on delivering bespoke bulk-handling equipment and TRS’s focus on boom systems, boom control technologies, and a wide range of specialist hydraulic attachments. However, Ingleson saw an opportunity for the two businesses to complement each other in helping customers in Australia’s quarrying industries.
“The idea was that while TRS focused on rockbreaker products and attachments, BHT would provide engineering support if and when TRS needed it,” Ingleson said.
“There’s no competition as each company focuses on different segments of the market. We grow together, and we’ve been doing so for the last decade.”
The businesses’ two workshops cover 3,200 sqm, with additional room for lifting and handling capabilities as well as specialised capabilities.
TRS has specialised rockbreaker service pits and a boom testing area with a dedicated rockbreaker boom testing frame.
Customers can also access the training facility, where they can learn to remotely operate a training boom in a dedicated space.
“Working together under the same roof means that TRS can take on a broader scope and manage larger projects that complement its equipment,” Ingleson said.
“If a customer has a special requirement, TRS has the added engineering capacity to meet that requirement in-house.
“For BHT, it means we can complete projects end-to-end.
“We can do the design, manufacturing, assembly and test work in-house.”
TRS has long been a presence in the quarrying industry, known for its range of hydraulic attachments, boom systems, and tailored solutions, which help create safe and more efficient quarries.
The company has supplied purpose-built rockbreaker boom, boom control and hydraulic power systems for big and small quarrying operations using its expertise in the mechanical and hydraulic design of heavy-duty fixed boom systems. TRS is the authorised Western Australian dealer for Rammer, ALLU, SIMEX, PneuVibe and Daehan hydraulic attachments.
The TRS team can use its industry experience to help customers understand the right attachment for their application, whether it involves rockbreaking, crushing, or road construction.
This is where its partnership with BHT can help quarry customers, as they possess the engineering and project management capabilities to see a project through to completion.
“It means that no request is too hard. We have a vast amount of experience and talent across the two entities, which means we can respond quicker and provide innovative and custom solutions where required within very short time frames,” Ingleson said.
“The way we work is seamless. Often customers don’t realise how integrated the companies work day-to-day until we explain it to them, and straight away they see the benefits,” Ingleson said.
“We’ve had customers come to visit us at the workshop to see a boom system test with TRS, and then at the other side of the workshop is the belt feeder BHT is assembling for the same project.”
While TRS has been established in the quarrying industry for more than a decade, its focus remains the same today as when Ingleson, Godsell, and Jackson first established it. The business aims to help more Australian quarries improve safety, minimise downtime, and move more materials at a lower cost.
“We’re focused on product development and innovation. Spending extra time on a product is worth it to make something perfect. It’s important to all of us that we are making this equipment here and making it well,” Ingleson said.
“We’re starting to see real growth in enquiries and our product line, but most importantly, our long-term goals are to keep maintaining excellent customer relationships.
“Without strong relationships, there’s no business. For us, it’s all about what we can do to make a customer’s job safer and easier.” •
For more information, visit totalrockbreaking.com.au and bulkhandlingtechnologies.com.au
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