• Absolutely Covered
• Aeronaut Automation
• Aerosail Shade Structures
• Alfresco Shade
• Architectural Sails (Qld)
• Architectural Rigging Services
• Atkins Fabrications
• Austress Freyssinet
• B & V Agro Irrigation Co
• Bargallie & Associates Pty Ltd
• Baytex Manufacturing
• Billabong Shade
• C & KA Flanagan Sailmakers
• Camerons Canvas Centre
• Connell Wagner
• DIG Diversified Interest Group Pty Ltd

• Fabric Shelter Systems
• Gale Pacific
• Global Membrane Design
• Halifax Vogel Group
• Hiroaka (Australia)
• Hyder Consulting
• Indtex Australia
• Innova International
• Light Weight Structures Advisory Service
• Morris-Nunn and Associates
• Nolan Warehouses
• Northrop Engineers
• Oasis Tension Structures
• Osborn Lane
• Ozrig
• Pro-Knit Industries Pty Ltd
• Profile Shade Structures

• PT Binatama Akrino
• Ricky Richards Sales
• Ronstan International
• Shann
• Sila Australia
• Space Structures (Aust) Pty Ltd
• Structureflex N.Z. Ltd
• Taiyo Membrane Corporation
• Tattersall Engineering Consultants
• Taylor Thomson Whitting
• Tensys Engineers
• UFS Australasia Pty Ltd
• Van der Meer Consulting
• Wade Consulting Group
• Wright Outcomes Pty Ltd

Capabilities: We provide the following services:

• Complete design and engineering
• Expert advice by trained consultants
• Professional installation by qualified tradesmen
• On-going maintenance

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Absolutely Covered specialise in providing the best range of weather protection products for all your outdoor areas. We are an Australian owned company, founded in 1997 and have quickly built a reputation as one of Sydney’s leading suppliers of outdoor shade solutions for domestic and commercial markets.

Our extensive range of shade solutions include:

• Outdoor Blinds
• Shade Sails and Structures
• Umbrellas
• Folding Arm Awnings

Manufacturer of Plotter Cutters for the Tension Membrane & Shade Industry

Capabilities: Aeronaut Automation manufactures automated plotter/cutters with CAD and nestling software to suit a variety of applications, from sail making, sail stringing machines, carbon fibre, rubber and canvas goods, and much more.

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Website: www.aeronaut.org
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Alfresco Shade Australia is based in Sydney and has been creating unique, stylish and functional fabric structures in the Australian market since 1988.

Alfresco Shade Australia design and build quality fabric structures. Expertise in planning, design, engineering, construction and installation means we guarantee professional management of your project from start to finish.

Our products have been designed to provide protection from the elements utilising the versatile medium of structural fabrics. From shade sails to clear café blinds to umbrellas to to complex membrane roofing systems, we have the fabric application to suit your need.
Website: www.alfrescoshade.com.au
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Capabilities: The business of Architectural Sails was established in 1990 and is a wholly owned Australian business with many projects in Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, The Phillipines and United Arab Emirates. Architectural Sails is proud to be internationally recognized by being awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award at the October 2005 IFAI awards in the USA.

Member Profile: Architectural Sails offers 16 years experience in the design and construction of tension membrane structures and shade structures. Premium quality materials are used on all work and installation is carried out by trained professionals to best practice international standards. Engineering design and certification is by experienced fabric engineers for all types of tension fabric structures and sail structures.
Website: www.archsails.com
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Member Profile: We have managed, manufactured and installed projects interstate, projects at height in difficult access areas, and projects for both domestic and commercial clients.

We have stainless fabrication and wire swaging capabilities from 2.5mm through to 28mm. Our qualified staff have the ability and mobility to procure and complete projects both in house and in the field.
Website: www.ars.com.au
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Austress Freyssinet, a subsidiary of the Freyssinet Group of companies (owned by Vinci), is a design and contracting company specialising in structural, remedial and geotechnical works. The Group is involved in many forms of construction including buildings, bridges, silos, industrial facilities, nuclear power plants, dams, harbours, tunnels, etc.

As the inventor of prestressed concrete and segmental bridge construction, the Group has continued this know-how into the field of stay cable technology - over 80 cable stayed bridges have been built over the last ten years using Freyssinet system. Our technologies are now being included in the supply of suspension cables suitable for the world’s largest bridges.
Website: www.freyssinet.com.au
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Capabilities: All new purpose-built 2,500-sq. metre factory, fully equipped to handle a wide range of technical fabrics, from the lightest polyesters to the heaviest PVC's & Canvases.

Comprehensive range of modern sewing machinery.
Range of modern, powerful high-frequency welders.
State-of-the-art, wide-beam, multi-head plotter/cutter
Powerful 3D CAD system with form-finding and pattern-generating capability
Fully networked Macintosh computer system
38 full time staff including 20+ skilled production personnel.

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Clipframe Tents & Marquees
Electron Pole Tents & Marquees
Corporate Tents and Canopies
Tensile Roofs and Structures
Shade Canopies and Awnings
Circus Marquees, Big Tops & Performance Tents
Preschool equipment
Website: www.baytex.co.nz
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Capabilities: We offer a full design service that can include:

• Fabric design
• Structural & finite element analysis
• Steelwork design & Workshop drawings
• DA drawings
• Computer generated rendered images
• Superimposed photographs
• Structural engineering design
• Scale models

Member Profile: Shade to Order has been manufacturing sails since 1979. We are 100% Australian owned and wherever possible, we use Australian made goods and services.

Our team of expert staff include design consultants, salespeople, draftspeople, fabric handling experts, project managers, purchasing staff, accounting officers and secretaries. Each is highly experienced and contributes to the smooth process of designing, manufacturing, and installing a tension membrane structure.
Website: www.shade-to-order.com.au
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Capabilities: Whether you are looking for sun protection for your home, rain and wind protection for your patio, or require shade protection for a school playground, Camerons has a product to suit your needs.

Member Profile: Camerons are the specialty awnings experts and the largest manufacturers of blinds in Melbourne’s south-east and the Peninsula.

Established for over 30 years, we design, manufacture, install and guarantee all of our products.
Website: www.cameronshade.com.au
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Website: www.conwag.com
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Capabilities: FSS offers a professional consultancy service providing advice & solutions to engineered fabric applications & structures. FSS works with clients from initial concept evaluation through to managing projects to completion & is often engaged for project feasibility & costing exercises.

FSS offers a comprehensive design & engineering service, from concept development to engineered working drawings. FSS has an in-house digital design department, skilled in CAD & 3D digital graphic systems. We can take the essence of your idea and transform it into a feasible working 3D & animated presentation model.

FSS has a specialised workshop skilled in the production & fabrication of tensile membranes, pneumatic structures, engineered fabrics and so on… FSS also has trained rigging crews who take care of all the installation logistics of either temporary or permanent structures.

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Fabric Shelter Systems specialise in architectural tensioned fabric structures and has a proven track record in this field. Utilising modern and traditional fabrication techniques, we design, fabricate and erect stylish and robust structures.
Website: www.fabricshelter.co.nz
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Member Profile: Gale Pacific Limited (Gale) is a world leading manufacturer and distributor of advanced polymer fabrics which includes knitted outdoor fabrics, coated waterproof fabrics and PVC coated mesh fabrics.

Products are sold to a range of consumer and industrial markets including the retail and home furnishing, architectural, contruction, and agribusiness markets. The products are designed to:

• Protect people and outdoor living environments from the harmful effects of UV rays, hail and other adverse weather conditions
• Improve the efficiency and competitiveness of agribusiness through increased crop protection and improved water conservation
• Enhance archictectural designs and construction applications

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Capabilities: Halifax Vogel Group is a international wholesale distribution company with branches in NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, WA, New Zealand and Thailand. HVG offers a wide range of industrial roll goods and are distributors of Verseidag Tension Membranes (Acrylic Lacquer PVC, weldable fluorpolymerlacquer PVC & PTFE Glass) plus Signage,Tent,Tarpaulin and Side Curtain PVC's. HVG also offer a range of other industrial roll goods - from HAGIHARA 366cm wide PE, VERSEIDAG PVC, ALNET Commercial and Horticultural Shade Cloths, J&J CARTER Keder and OKAMOTO clear PVC,to the HVG range of laminated and coated reinforced PVCs.

HVG is able to meet with the requirements of the smallest through to the largest fabricator. Through our vast international network we are also able to source those hard to find fabrics. HVG through its Bangkok THAILAND office is now in a position to assist its Australian and New Zealand customers identify potential markets and facilitate the transaction in the large ASEAN market. HVG is an established force in the industrial materials market with a sales force second to none and the energy, drive and knowledge to assist you in your business.

Member Website: www.halifaxvogel.com.au
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Hiraoka Architectural Structure Fabrics are designed to provide outstanding performance and aesthetic beauty. These fabrics are the result of 30 years of innovation and technical leadership in the architectural structure market.

Hiraoka pioneered the development of PVDF surface coatings, anti-stain technology utilizing photocatalysts, flame resistant technology and weathering resistance to provide an outstanding service life.

Hiraoka Architectural Structure Fabrics are available in a range of fabric constructions to suit medium to large scale fabric structures. Highly translucent materials are also available.
Website: www.hiraoka.com.au
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Website: www.hyder.com.au
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Website: www.indtexaust.com
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Member Profile: Innova International has launched throughout Australasia, a series of highly differentiated, purpose designed fabrics and non-woven linings. Initially specialising in vinyl fabrics, Innova has broadened its product base to include architectural fabrics, tarpaulin & tent materials, PVC cladding foils, and spunbonded and stitchbonded non-woven upholstery linings, which have gained strong national support in both plain and customer logo printed forms.
Website: www.innovaint.com.au
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• Concept Realization
• Structural Product Design
• Finite Element Analysis
• Tensile Membrane Patterning
• Working Drawings
• Engineering Certification
• Tender Specifications

Member Profile: Established in 2001 the Light Weight Structures Advisory Service is a boutique design and engineering company specializing in Tensile Membrane Architecture and Shade Sails. Our business systems are highly efficient: we offer our client base exceptional value and experience in the design and engineering of tensile projects in solid fabrics including PTFE, PVDF and porous fabrics including perforated PVC and knitted Shade Cloth.

The Light Weight Structures Advisory Service is technology driven. In offering our clientele the most efficient design solutions we utilize leading edge technologies combined with past experience in both steel and membrane fabrication. When utilizing our scope of professional services our clients are able to participate in the end to end supply of built Tensile Projects both within Australia and in other parts of the world.
Website: www.LTWSAS.com.au
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Member Profile: Morris-Nunn Architects is widely regarded as Tasmania's most adventurous and innovative architectural practice. It has developed internationally recognised strategies for ecologically sustainable architecture, constructing several innovative 'landmark' buildings that have attracted national and overseas acclaim.

The basic thrust of MN+A's oeuvre over the years has been to explore new approaches towards a more enlightened, socially humane architecture. The practice has created many unique projects that have played an important role in helping to improve the social conditions of communities in which the buildings are built.
Website: www.morrisnunn.com.au
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Member Profile: Nolan O'Rourke and Company Pty Ltd, trading as Nolan Warehouses, is a wholesale supplier of a wide range of products to the automotive and marine after-markets, furniture manufacturers and upholsterers, Industrial fabric converters, designers and specifiers.

The Company has six branches throughout Australia and over 40 experienced and dedicated staff committed to providing the best possible service and technical and marketing support for your needs - We provide an end to end supply solution.
Website: www.nolans.com.au
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Member Profile: Northrop has been providing specialist engineering services since 1976. Our experience, expertise and values, mean our clients get tailored and innovative solutions.

At Northrop, we pride ourselves on three key things:
Our commitment to our clients
Our commitment to our people
Our commitment to excellence
Website: www.northrop.com.au
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Member Profile: Oasis, an international company at the leading edge of design, fabrication and construction of tension membrane structures. They offer end to end world leading solutions in solid fabric, PVC, PVDF coated PVC, PTFE and porous structures in perforated PVC and knitted HDPE. Oasis supplies innovative, architectural, environmentally conscious and practical solutions to clients in Australia and around the world. Their international contracts include the North America, Asia, Pacific and Middle East.

On going research, development, a team of designers, professional engineers and skilled fabricators with years of technical experience, reasures Oasis clients their structures will be cost effective, long lasting and constructed on time. A technologically advanced and automated fabricating plant situated with their head office in Victoria, Australia allows Oasis to be world competitive even on the largest of projects.
Website: www.oasis-shade.com.au
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Capabilities: Ozrig can provide complete Rigging Services for your project, including:

• Consultative services (job pre start/proposal stage)
• Rigging equipment sales and hire
• Repair and cleaning of Archictectural membranes of all types and sizes
• Supply and fitting of all commercial and industrial cabled hand rail systems for use around swimming pools, balconies, safety zones and office areas
• Supervising and controlling of construction sites
• Installation and tensioning of tensile membranes
• Foundation work
• Licensed elevated work platform operators
• Rigging and erecting steelwork of all scales
• Installation of chemical anchor systems
• Twin rope access
• Remote location works

Member Profile: With 30 years of experience working with steel structures and tensioned tensile membranes throughout Australasia and the Middle East Ozrig are specialists in the field of rigging, steel erection, chemical anchor systems, high tension tensile membranes and shade structures for the commercial and industrial markets.

With offices in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia Ozrig are able to provide the highest levels of service, expertise and response for all rigging needs, both nationally and internationally.
Website: www.ozrig.com.au
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We offer the complete design, manufacture and installation of shade sails and tension membrane structures.
The membrane structures are fabricated from PVC coated polyester fabric that allows a highly effective method of covering large areas with the minimum of supports.
This gives our designers the opportunity to produce innovative shapes that allow for a light graceful structure providing shade and cover from the elements.
Profile Shade Structures offer a full architectural consultation service to provide our customers with innovative shade solutions and custom build designs.
Website: www.profileshadestructures.com
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Member Profile: Ricky Richards is a dynamic, innovative company who since 1983, has been supplying customers with a wide variety of PVC, Canvas, Nylon, Polyethylene and Horticultural Fabrics.

We are committed to working with our customers in order to support their continual progress; achieving higher standards in print media, industrial and commercial textiles.

Technology has paved the way for the creation of superior products, and we are excited to distribute these products to our diverse range of customers.

By constantly researching the markets we serve, and analysing developments both in Australia and throughout the world, we ensure our customers are always kept in touch with all that is new in textiles.

We make sure our company values are as high as the standards of our products. Our service, reliability, integrity and commitment to total customer value, is the reason people remain loyal to us, creating wonderful relationships of mutual growth.

At Ricky Richards, to have satisfied customers is great.....to delight customers is our aim!
Website: www.rickyrichards.com.au
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Ronstan is an internationally recognized manufacturer of cable and rod tendons for tensile architecture known for their quality product and ability to engineer rigging solutions for the most complex and demanding of advanced architectural designs.

The Ronstan product range includes:

• Stainless Steel Cables - 1mm to 36mm diameter (110 kg to 96,875kg MBL)
• Stainless Steel Tie Rods - 4.8mm to 100mm Diam.(880kg to 929,000kg MBL)
• Galvanized and Galfan coated open spiral strand and fully locked cables - 10mm to 156mm diameter (3367kg to 929,000kg MBL)
• Galvanized Steel Tie Rods from 10mm to M100 Diam. (3367kg to 929,000kg MBL)
• Cable clamps and custom design fittings for cable nets, grids and shells and glazed structures.
• "X-Tend" stainless steel flexible mesh.
• "Posilock" cable store fixturing systems.
• "ISYS" green cable façade systems.>Capabilities: Ronstan is an internationally recognized manufacturer

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Website: www.ronstan.com.au
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Shann Australia imports and distributes componentry and accessories, for wholesale distribution, to a diverse range of trades including Clothing, Furniture, Curtain, Bedding, Automotive, Canvas & Marine.

Shann also provides the following services;

• Dyeing - buttons, studs, swift attachments and cable ties.
• Slitting and Cutting - in many of our materials & fabrics.
• Made to Measure: curtain tracks, scatter cushions (in all fillings), seat and back cushions (in all fillings), foam
• Tack Buttons - with logo
• Promotional bags - custom designed & made.

Due to strong relationships developed over many years of dealing with overseas manufacturers, together with Australian made products, Shann Australia supply unmatched quality products & services.
Website: www.shann.com.au
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Member Profile: Established in 1983, Sila Australia has evolved to become one of Australia’s leading manufacturers and supplier of refractory and insulation materials.

We offer an extensive range of refractory and insulation products to operate at temperatures ranging from -50 to + 2000 deg C. We employ our technical resources and strategic alliances to provide cost effective solutions which meet the working requirements for any heat, abrasion or chemical resistant application.

Our success has been achieved by identifying and acting upon the needs of the industries we serve. Improvement and expansion of our range of products and services is ongoing, and we have an enviable reputation for consistent quality and service.
Website: www.sila.com.au
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Member Profile: From humble beginnings over 70 years ago as a sail making company under the name of Sails and Covers Ltd, today Structurflex is an industry-leading fabric engineering and design firm with headquarters in New Zealand and offices in Kuala Lumpur, Brisbane, Dubai and Kansas City.

Extensive experience in the handling of specialised fabric materials, combined with the introduction of manufacturing techniques suited to fabric engineering, enabled the company to expand into other markets, and in 1981 Structurflex was formed.

Today Structurflex services the Transport, Architectural, Environmental and Promotional markets and has separate, specialised divisions for each.

With a commitment to investing into research and development, Structurflex remains at the forefront of emerging technologies and boasts a state of the art design and manufacturing facility. Combining the technology of tomorrow with the practical knowledge gained over more than 70 years has enabled Structurflex to deliver to clients an impressive range of high profile fabric engineering projects in New Zealand and around the world.
Website: www.structurflex.co.nz
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Member Profile: From its Australian base, Taiyo Membrane Corporation (TMC), designs, fabricates and constructs MakMax shelter solutions for clients in Australia, South-East Asia, the Pacific region and the Middle East. We believe in quality, innovation, service and the creativity to complement great design.

TMC is a new name for Australian based, Shade Structures Birdair, a division of Japan's Taiyo Kogyo Corporation, the largest membrane company in the world.

The company has the financial backing, technical support and extensive experience over the past 50 years to expand the use of MakMax around the world. MakMax is the brand for world's best tensile membrane products. It stands for quality, flexibility, durability and style.

The people behind TMC are the same group of inventive designers, quality focused engineers and skilled craftsman that made Shade Structures Birdair an enormous success. It is their talent that led Taiyo Kogyo to choose the Australian partner to drive its global business growth.
Website: www.taiyomc.com
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Taylor Thomson Whitting is a wholly owned Australian company providing Consultancy Engineering Services to Australia and Asia, since 1958.

Our six offices provide clients with a wide range of specialised services in Structural, Civil, Facade and Traffic Engineering.

With over 150 staff our core philosophy is to provide service that is: Client oriented, Practical and economical, Innovative

Website: www.ttw.com.au

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Capabilities: Shape Finding, Load Analysis, Patterning, Installation Studies, Design, Detailing, Supervision, Project Management, Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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Website: www.tensys.com
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Capabilities: Concept Development, Analysis, Fabric Steel and Concrete design and detailing, Geometry Definition & Coordination, Engineering drawings, Steel Workshop drawings, Fabric cutting patterns, Clamping hardware design, Cable & Fitting Scheduling, Site inspections, Certification, Structural Condition Reports

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Website: www.wadeconsult.com
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