Farms and Farm Machinery – September 2019

HARVESTERS

SIZE DOES MATTER

With over 20 years experience, family owned and operated Midwest Fabrication proudly offers a range of Durus Draper

Platforms packed with the reliability, durability and convenience you’ve come to expect from Midwest.

Designed and manufactured in Australia for our tough harvesting conditions, our harvest platforms integrate

seamlessly to ALL major combine harvesters ensuring you harvest more crop, saving you time and money.

If you are looking for less downtime, superior crop feeding and better ground following

without electronics, contact us today to discuss NO DEPOSIT ordering.

6 lrvingdale Road, Dalby QLD

07 4662 2137

[email protected]

http://www.midwest.net.au

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Growing demand for

the world’s widest crop

harvesting platform means

Midwest Fabrication needs

to expand its premises in

Dalby, Queensland

Happily,thecompanyis oneof 15 Queenslandbusinessesto

receivea $250,000RuralEconomicDevelopment(RED)Grant

fromthestategovernmenttofunditsexpansion.

Midwestplanstoemploylocalworkerswherepossible,aswell

asusingitsexistingstaffandtheirsteelfabricationskills.

Oncompletionoftheproject,theMidwestteamis setto

expandwiththecapacitytoincreaseproductiononthefactory

floorandpaintfacility.

Thematchedfundingwillenablethecompanytomoveforward

withtheexpansion,“toensurethatourbusinessgrowthnow

reflectsthedevelopmentofourproduct,”Schuttsays.

“Overtheyearswehaveenhancedandaddedproductsto

ourrange– wearecontinuallylookingatwaystoimproveour

productstomeettheneedsofourfarmersandtoughAustralian

conditions.

“Whetherit bea 36–60ftplatform,combtrailer,anincidentkit

tohaveonhandorquickdeliveryofa Midwestpartfromoneof

ourdistributioncentres– ouraimis tomeetyourharvestneeds

withthereliabilityandhighqualitythatMidwestis knownfor,”

hesays.

Wanttoknowmore?ContactMidwestFabricationorchatto

oneoftheirteamatanupcomingfielddaynearyou.

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amily-owned farm machinery manufacturer Midwest

Fabrication will expand its current workshop and painting

facilities as it moves to increase production of its 18m (60ft)

draper platforms.

Company director Martin Schutt says the planned expansion

will help the company manufacture larger numbers of the

platforms safer and more efficiently, adding that the existing

facilities were unable to accommodate growing orders from its

Australian and international dealer network.

“Our premises were originally designed for the manufacturing

of our smaller fronts, but when it comes to our largest 60ft

platforms – we are restricted,” he says.

“We realised that as our product grew that our factory needed

to also, but our plans for expansion had been put on hold with it

being so dry.”

Main: Midwest

Fabrications Directors,

Martin Schutt, left, and

Craig Schutt

Left: Brad Falvey is one of

the Midwest Fabrications

staff who will work on the

expansion

FOR PLATFORM