Family-owned Queensland engineering
Forty years ofBuilt to protect
QMW started in 1984 as a family business specialising in certified pipe welding. Four decades later, the same family runs one of the world's largest destructive testing facilities, and every structure that leaves the floor still carries the same promise.
FLS-63 on site · Central Queensland coal mine
Milestones
The short version
Founded in Acacia Ridge
Established as a family-owned business specialising in certified pipe welding, serving gas, construction, mining, transport, earthmoving and forestry.
ISO 9001 certified
Quality management certified, and held continuously ever since. Every claim on this site is backed by a certificate or a fact.
NATA accreditation
Our testing laboratory earned NATA accreditation (No. 15369). Destructive testing became the backbone of everything we certify.
Two facilities, one standard
Acacia Ridge QLD and Welshpool WA. Over 2000 certified ROPS designs. Members of Standards Australia committee ME063.
Leadership
The founder still walks the floor
Jeff Samuels · founder, QMW Industries
Jeff Samuels founded QMW in 1984 as a certified pipe-welding business and built it into a global authority on operator protection. He sits onISO technical committee TC 127(earth-moving machinery) and chairsStandards Australia committee ME-063, the committees that write the rules our industry builds to.
When the people who write the standard also run the test lab, "certified" means something. That's the company culture in one sentence.
How we work
One roof is the whole point
Design, fabrication, machining, hydraulics, blast and paint, and a destructive testing laboratory, all in one integrated facility. When the engineer who modelled the load case can walk to the welder who's building it and the rig that will break it, quality stops being a paperwork exercise.
Authoritative on safety
Forty years and a NATA lab earn the right to speak plainly: we never hedge on safety, and we never guess.
Genuine, because it's family
First names, straight answers, and the people who build your equipment on the other end of the phone.
Proven, not promised
Every protective structure design is loaded past failure before it protects anyone. That's the difference between certified and claimed.
Trusted globally
Our structures ship worldwide and our site crews install them anywhere. Globally respected, trusted onsite.