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VERMEER HDD A FAB ADDITION FOR IRRIFAB Thompson’s Irrifab sensed an opportunity to expand its business when it couldn’t source local contractors to fulfil its smaller civil pipeline jobs, which led it to add a new Vermeer D8x12 HDD to its fleet and train its team up to handle the projects themselves.
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hompson’s Irrifab (TI) was started in 1985 by Ray and Greg Thompson, based out of Cowra, in the Central West of New South Wales. The business started out as a farm irrigation service, providing local farms with support on pivot irrigation, stock water systems and turf watering.
Then about ten years ago, it decided to branch out and grow the business in the civil irrigation and pipeline space. Doug Walker is one of the Civil Project Supervisors at TI and has been working with the business for about two years. He said the decision to expand into civil work was made because it offers a big opportunity for growth. “There was a lot of work going in council pipeline projects, water main replacements and building out pump stations, so we have invested and grown that part of the business over the last few years,” Mr Walker said. Part of that growth has seen TI recently add a brand-new Vermeer D8x12 HDD to its fleet of excavators and skid steers, which will be put to work on the smaller jobs that would usually be contracted out.
