# About | QMW Industries

> Family-owned Queensland engineering since 1984. ISO 9001 certified since 1997, NATA-accredited testing since 2006. The story behind Built to Protect.

![A QMW FLS-63 fuel and lube service truck working alongside a CAT haul truck at a coal mine at first light](/assets/img/site/qmw-fls-saraji.jpg)

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

![QMW founder Jeff Samuels](/assets/img/people/founder-jeff-samuels.jpg)

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 on**ISO technical committee TC 127**(earth-moving machinery) and chairs**Standards 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.

## At a glance

Founded

1984

Ownership

Family owned

HQ

13,000 m² · Acacia Ridge, QLD

Second facility

Welshpool, WA

ISO 9001

Since 1997

NATA lab

No. 15369, since 2006

ROPS designs

2000+

NATA

**NATA-accredited laboratory**Accreditation No. 15369, since 2006

ISO

**ISO 9001:2015 certified**Quality management, since 1997

ME063

**Standards Australia**Committee ME-063, chaired by founder Jeff Samuels

Keep looking around

## Where to next

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The range

### Products

ROPS to water tankers: designed, fabricated and tested here.

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One roof

### Services

Testing, fabrication, blast and paint, engineering, certified repairs.

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Updates

### News

Projects, people and milestones from the workshop floor.

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Start a conversation

### Contact

Talk to our engineering team.

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