New Certifications Refocus Aerison

New Certifications Refocus Aerison on Seamless Delivery and Expansion

Aerison has one simple policy: ‘clients for life’. For over 30 years, this strategy has guided the company’s staff to strive for excellence and maintain strong customer relationships. Founded in 1988, the company has grown from a specialist environmental engineering company into a broad based engineering design and construction company that delivers multi-disciplined EPC, engineering and design, construction and maintenance services to various industries and clients across Australia. To remain competitive and maintain industry excellence, Aerison recently certified to AS/NZS ISO 3834 and EN 15085. Together, these internationally recognised certifications will enhance the company’s profile, open a new range of opportunities in a post-pandemic world, and help forge its position in a new market segment.

George Mathew is the Quality Assurance and Quality Control Manager at Aerison. He oversees the company’s seamless delivery of projects across Australia.

George believes the key to the company’s success is to ensure a stringent and uniform approach to quality. “This approach ensures Aerison maintains its position as a multi-disciplined EPC services provider that is recognised for delivering solutions safely, to the highest quality and to schedule,” he said.

Aerison provides end-to-end engineering design, construction, and asset maintenance to their clients. The company’s skilled workforce is matched with expertise in administration and project management.

“We’re more than just a multi-disciplined engineering, fabrication and construction company. We provide crucial services for tier one mining, oil and gas, infrastructure projects and now to the rail sector,” Mathew said.

The company was founded in 1988 and acquired by Giuseppe Leone and Daniel Hibbs in November 2016. “We are proudly Western Australian owned and operated. Our expertise lies in full turn-key solutions,” Mathew said. “We really care about our clients and staff. In fact, our ethos is to maintain long-term relationships with our clients, and retain staff, even after a project is finalised and completed.”

Aerison has around 125 management and engineering staff, and 420 supervisory and bluecollar tradespeople. “Our staff come into work and focus on commitment, expertise, responsibility, and excellence,” Mathew said.

Specialist Environmental Division The Aerison Group is widely recognised for its specialist expertise in environmental services across four key areas being: Air Particle Control (APC) or dust control, emissions control, noise abatement and water and wastewater treatment. No matter the requirement, Aerison is there to help clients reduce the impact of their operations on the environment by performing studies and audits, compliance testing, engineering and design, construction, commissioning, inspection and maintenance. Aerison’s bespoke environmental services are

utilised by asset owners across mining and minerals processing, agriculture, chemicals and power generation, as well as port, road tunnel and rail infrastructure.

Multi-Disciplined Engineering and Construction Aerison is focused on its core disciplines of structural, mechanical, piping electrical and instrumentation. In 2017, the company established an engineering consultancy division that has grown to over 35 staff and supports the businesses diverse client base. “The ability to provide clients with an end-to-end seamless delivery solution has really set the business apart from its peers,” said George.

In recent years, Aerison has established a capability in large scale construction projects having recently completed the construction of a Powder Leach Nickel Sulphate plant for BHP Nickel West and a number of expansion Projects for Rio Tinto across their operations in the Pilbara. Aerison recognised the need to be involved in the complete life cycle of their clients assets and to have a balanced mix of project versus ongoing maintenance type work.

“The company has built up an impressive portfolio of master services agreements and preferred vendor status arrangements across multiple sectors which include iron ore, gold, mineral sands, port infrastructure, grain handling, utilities, road tunnel and rail car manufacturing,” said Mathew.

Aerison’s CEO, Giuseppe Leone, said, “The company will continue to diversify and expand its footprint across Australia and into other sectors such as infrastructure, defence and utilities when the correct opportunity presents itself. Whilst the spend in mining and resources is anticipated to remain buoyant for some time, it is important that we set the business up to be able to pivot into other areas as and when the market focus shifts”.

“Achieving AS/NZS ISO 3834 and EN 15085 was a huge success story for the business, and involved an enormous amount of commitment and effort by the team,” said Leone. Achieving Certification to AS/NZS ISO 3834 and EN 15085 Aerison recently received two certifications to advance their fabrication capabilities: AS/NZS ISO 3834 and EN 15085.

AS/NZS ISO 3834 specifies the quality requirements that are expected for fusion welding on a global scale. The certification is also a prerequisite for EN 15085, which is an exclusive certification for personnel who are working with railway vehicles, their components and assembly.

“We embarked on this journey to ensure Aerison’s participation in the growth of the rail manufacturing industry in Australia. It will also help to guarantee that Aerison’s systems are aligned with the international requirements for rail fabrication and assembly,” Mathew said.

Since Aerison certified to AS/NZS ISO 3834 and EN 15085, Mathew believes new opportunities have already begun to present themselves.

“We’re seeing a lot of increased work come through for Australian rail opportunities, and even new international opportunities in the rail industry. It helps to ensure that we stay competitive and meet the ongoing demands of our clients.”

Mathew described the overall certification process as “informative, interesting, detailed and structured”. He also explained that other likeminded companies should consider certifying to AS/NZS ISO 3834 and EN 15085. “When you start the process, you should ensure your base systems are operating to a satisfactory minimum standard prior to engaging with this certification.”

“You don’t want to be caught out and have to change the way you are already operating. Listen, take notes and ensure this is a whole-of-organisation approach to certification,” he concluded.

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