Profile: PTE Group – Australian designed and manufacturing ingenuity

Australian designed and manufacturing ingenuity PTE GROUP –

ByRussell McKinnon

At a time when manufacturing has been sent offshore and major plants have been shut down around the country, an innovative Western Australian transport engineering company is bucking the trend.

With typical Aussie “can-do” bravado and ingenuity, PTE Group is forging a path in difficult times with unique designs and ‘local’ manufacturing that make other companies flinch.

And the good news is that it does not rely on foreign input, but Western Australian product and Western Australian suppliers to take innovation to a higher level.

Headed by three AFL-mad brothers — Jamie, Vince and Monte Pollard — PTE is thinking outside the box and taking on challenges that few other companies welcome or could even hope to solve.

By taking on tricky and unusual projects, PTE is making a name in a competitive field and delivering on promises with jawdropping solutions. .../Continued on p17

PTE Group owners -(l-r) Monte, Vince and Jamie Pollard