AN ORANGE firm has pipped Brisbane and Sydney rivals by picking up a major industrial design job on the Gold Coast.
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Trang Imagineering, founded by Orange locals David and Wendy Finlay, specialises in creating precision plans for steel buildings, which can save massive amounts of unnecessary material costs in the construction phase.
In their latest project win, Trang Imagineering has been providing the plans for a Gold Coast shopping centre which involves more than 200 tonnes of steel.
"The challenge is that someone gives us a general plan, and then we have to design it down to the smallest detail, to make sure every steel element can be measured and calculated.
"This sort of precision work is growing, because it can save up to 30pc of steel wastage which is obviously a big saving with these projects," Mr Finlay said yesterday.
The task is already well under way, and for the small company, it is just one of several design projects they have won as far afield as Perth.
Mr Finlay said there was no barrier to being a winning company based in Orange, with local companies such as his able to provide the latest draughtsman and mechanical design skills.
"I personally think that Orange engineering and allied companies are as good as anyone.
"The only limitation of being in Orange rather than a capital city is in the minds of clients, just because they don't know about what the companies here can do.
"Orange has been a great operating base for us, and from here we export our skills around Australia," he said.
Trang, which opened in 2003, now employs six people at its design shop in McNamara Street.
