Agriculture
19 October, 2023
Manufacturer sends trays and mixers far and wide
NORM and Simon Morrison went to their customers at Elmore Field Days last week. The father and son have their Eddington Engineering base on the banks of the Loddon River but their customers are as far away as the Riverina in New South Wales and...
NORM and Simon Morrison went to their customers at Elmore Field Days last week.
The father and son have their Eddington Engineering base on the banks of the Loddon River but their customers are as far away as the Riverina in New South Wales and south-east South Australia.
“We’ve been coming here for six or seven years. It’s an event that brings us into contact with customers who come from far and wide,” said Simon.
He said the business, employing eight staff, now specialised in manufacturing truck and ute trays and feed mixers.
“Our high quality ute trays and truck trays are renowned throughout Victoria,” he said.
“The company also strives to meet the needs of local farmers by repairing mowers, headers, and all types of farm machinery, quickly and efficiently either in the workshop or on site.”
The business was started by Norm more than 40 years ago.
He had been working as an apprentice at the Bridgewater flour mill when friends asked him to build a shed, said Simon.
“Dad started up the business and started making truck trays more than 30 years ago,” he said. “And then about 15 years ago, we started building feed mixers at Eddington.
“Now they each make up about 50 per cent of our output.”
Simon and Norm said training staff had always been a priority, having trained nine TAFE-based, one on-the-job apprentice steel fabricators, and one office administrator.
“Several of our apprentices have taken out top awards during their training with us,” Simon said