Business View Oceania | September 2022

57 5 8 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 CHADWI CK FORKL I FTS hours a day, seven days a week. The company also has an extensive transport and logistics division available for all assets, whether they need to be delivered for hire or taken off-site for servicing. We caught up with Cliff Chadwick (Owner/ Director) and Shane Mathias (General Manager) to discuss Chadwick Forklifts’ growth since their last feature, in 2021. Cliff begins, “Chadwick Forklifts recently won Rental Company of the Year at the 2021 HRIA Hire Industry Excellence Awards. Since we received that award, we’ve invested heavily in both people and branch assets. We upgraded our Sunshine branch to a larger premises nearby, which allowed us to increase our staff and expand our capabilities in the northwest metro area. We also spent around $7,000,000 on new equipment, which is all specifically targeted to support local Victorian infrastructure and construction projects. We are now a completely integrated company that is capable of providing for clients across the entire state in rentals, services, logistics, and transport. Our team supports apprentices and senior technicians alike, which is fantastic, because there’s a really diverse range of skills, experience, and new ideas constantly being brought into the business.” Chadwick Forklifts has recently upped their competitive offering with forklift machines that are used on the majority of Victorian infrastructure and construction projects- large and small alike. Shane elaborates, “Our main affiliations are with CYP, the North East Link expansions and tunnel projects, building the new Sunshine Hospital and MCity in Clayton, as well as all the general city construction that is ongoing around Melbourne. Chadwick assets are across all of those, so we support most of the work happening around the state right now, and by extension, supporting the industries that work develops. On top of all this, we remain genuinely committed to our end users in pharmaceuticals, food and chemical production, healthcare, etc. We are busier today than we ever have been before.”