What White Industries does

White Industries is an Australian, third-generation family-owned foundry operating from a 2.35-hectare headquarters site in Dalby, Queensland (established 1978) and a second acquired manufacturing site at Ipswich (acquired 2021), with a sales office opened in Newcastle, NSW in August 2025. The company produces custom ferrous and non-ferrous castings — steel, iron, stainless, aluminium, bronze, brass — in 106 alloy grades, ranging from 1 kg to 20 tonnes, for eight primary end markets: mining, sugar industry, pump/water industries, heavy transport, aftermarket automotive, rail, general engineering, and agriculture. Named customers include OEM-grade accounts such as Mack, Volvo and Leader Trucks, Austoft Cane Harvesters, Australian and overseas sugar mills, HIC Newcastle, and various rail OEMs. The company also sells the GB30 Grain Buggy, a proprietary 30-tonne powder-coated chaser bin, directly to Australian farmers.

The production stack is fully in-house: pattern making, automated greensand and chemical-bonded moulding on a German-made BMD line rated at 50 moulds per hour, induction melting across furnaces from 40 kg to 3 tonnes, six PLC-controlled gas-fired heat treatment ovens with water quench, Mazak CNC machining centres, fabrication, and a complete testing regime (magnetic particle, dye penetration, hardness, chemical analysis, with subcontracted radiography, ultrasonic, tensile, and impact). The company is ISO 9001:2015 certified and emphasises a 97% on-time delivery rate within five days.

The business model is project-based custom manufacturing: each casting is individually quoted on specification, with no public price list, and revenue is generated through a national field sales organisation (National Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Business Development Manager) selling directly to enterprise OEMs and ASX-listed mining, defence, transport, and pumping customers across Australia. Growth capital is being deployed via the Newcastle office, the Ipswich capacity expansion, and a proprietary branded agricultural product line — all funded internally with no external institutional investment disclosed.

Name

White Industries

Legal name

White Nominees Pty Ltd

Website

https://whiteindustries.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

White Industries is a family-owned Australian foundry operating from Dalby and Ipswich, Queensland, producing custom metal castings in 106 alloys for mining, transport, rail, agriculture, and sugar OEMs. It also sells the GB30 Grain Buggy directly to Australian farmers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Metal Castings and Foundry Services

NAICS

Other Nonferrous Metal Foundries (except Die-Casting) (331529), Steel Foundries (except Investment) (331513)

SIC

Nonferrous Foundries (Castings) (3360), Secondary Smelting & Refining Of Nonferrous Metals (3341)

akta.pro primary industry

Steel Casting (Continuous Casting, Ingots, Semi-Finished Slabs/Billets/Blooms) (IMAKABAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Aluminum Casting & Ingot/Billet/Slab Production (IMAKACAE)

Keywords

• Metal casting services
• Foundry manufacturing
• CNC machining services
• Industrial cast components
• Agricultural equipment manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Dalby

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Metal Castings: Primary revenue from producing custom metal castings to customer specifications. Castings range from 1kg to 20 tonnes in various ferrous and non-ferrous metals including steel, iron, aluminium, bronze, and brass. Revenue is project-based with quotes for each job.
2. CNC Machining Services: In-house CNC machining of cast components to customer specifications, providing value-added fully machined components rather than raw castings.
3. Grain Buggy Products: Manufacture and sale of branded GB30 Grain Buggy (Chaser Bin) products directly to agricultural customers. Finished goods with established specifications and pricing.
4. Contract Repairs and Fabrication: Contract repair and fabrication services to plant and equipment, including custom metal fabrication of small and large items.
5. Subcontract Heat Treatment: Offering subcontracted heat treatment services to external customers using their six heat treatment ovens and water quenching facilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

White Industries operates an end-to-end metal casting foundry producing custom ferrous and non-ferrous castings (1kg to 20 tonnes) for industrial OEMs across mining, sugar, pumps, heavy transport, automotive, rail, general engineering and agriculture. It also manufactures and sells the branded GB30 Grain Buggy chaser bin directly to farmers, and offers subcontract CNC machining, heat treatment, fabrication and repair services from facilities in Dalby and Ipswich, Queensland.

Product overview

White Industries operates as a comprehensive foundry and metal casting business with in-house capabilities across the entire production chain: pattern making, moulding (automated greensand and chemical bonded sand), melting (induction furnaces ranging 40kg to 3 tonne), heat treatment, machining (CNC equipment including Mazak Multiplexes), fabrication, and testing services. The company produces two main product lines: (1) GB30 Grain Buggy – a 30-tonne agricultural chaser bin with unique powder-coated bolted construction, and (2) Metal Cast Components – specialized OEM castings for mining (dragline/excavator components), sugar industry, pump industries, heavy transport, aftermarket automotive, rail, general engineering, and agriculture sectors. All products are 100% Australian sourced and manufactured at facilities in Dalby and Ipswich, Queensland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mining Cast Components OEM heavy mining castings supplied to mining OEMs, including dragline and excavator components, rigging components, bucket castings, rigging system pins and shackles, Austenitic Manganese bushes, boom eye castings and ground engaging tools, designed to withstand harsh mining environments.
• Sugar Industry Components Cast and fully machined sugar mill and sugar transportation components including mill pinions, trash bar castings, replacement teeth, gear castings, shredder hammers, centrifugal separator components, chain links, bearing housings, and bronze sleeves and bearings for Australian and overseas sugar mills and OEMs.
• Pump Industry Components OEM cast pump components in stainless steel, SG iron, cast iron, high chromium iron and bronzes including volute castings, impellers, flanges, back covers, water drilling equipment, couplings, shaft support spiders, bearing housing castings, and propeller and hub castings for water, sewerage and slurry applications.
• Heavy Transport Components High-quality hub and stub assemblies and brake drum castings, fully machined and painted ready for installation, plus wear components for high abrasion/wear areas on heavy transport machines; supplied to truck OEMs including Mack, Volvo and Leader Trucks.
• Aftermarket Automotive Parts OEM aftermarket automotive parts machined and finished to strict quality and dimensional specifications, including cast water pump bodies, cylinder heads, engine blocks, turbo charger housings, and manifold systems for the aftermarket automotive sector.
• Rail Components Cast and machined rail components including suspension tubes, axle boxes and cover plates, hose coupling castings, adaptor plates and housings, traction rods, corner rail plates, and tow couplings and coupler plate castings for power cars, wagon carriages and rail line infrastructure.
• General Engineering Castings Custom castings for general engineering customers ranging from one-off jobs to long-run production orders, including large lift boom components for drilling rigs, weld-on hydraulic cylinder eyes, and civil/structure steel and iron cast components, plus conversion of fabricated parts to castings.
• Agriculture Castings Custom OEM agricultural castings developed from initial prototype fabrication including air seeder blower housings, tynes, hub and stub assemblies, heavy duty chassis brackets, housings and couplings for agricultural equipment manufacturers.
• GB30 Grain Buggy – Chaser Bin 30-tonne capacity grain buggy/chaser bin manufactured by White Industries as the only Australian manufacturer to powder coat grain buggy bins, featuring bolted powder-coated bin construction, dual axle rocking beam with 40-degree osculation, 700mm travel, 19-inch lift auger and 14-inch cross auger with 10 tonnes per minute discharge rate; sold directly to agricultural customers.
• Metal Casting Foundry Services Custom foundry casting services producing ferrous and non-ferrous castings with capacity up to 10,000kg in iron, 7,000kg in steel, 1,000kg in brass/bronze and 325kg in aluminium alloy, across 106 different alloys; includes pattern making, moulding, melting, heat treatment, machining, fabrication and testing delivered as in-house services.
• Subcontract Heat Treatment Services Heat treatment services offered to external customers using six PLC-controlled gas-fired heat treatment ovens and water quench facility, supporting annealing, normalizing, hardening and tempering requirements.
• Contract Repair and Fabrication Services Custom metal fabrication services for small and large items plus contract repair services to plant and equipment, including custom components and assemblies for industrial customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 97% delivery rate within 5 days
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles8 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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