TRADES FOR TITANS HIGHLIGHTS
Quarter 3 - Jan 2018
Trades For Titans was established in early 2018 as a Partnership, the owners found a small share workshop giving them 200 square metres. They manufactured their first products being temporary fence stillages. They also bought their first lathe and forklift.
 Brand was established |  New lease for starting workshop, shared building leasing 200 sqm to TFT |  Prototype block stillages manufactured. |
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 First manual lathe purchased and repaired |  Temporary Fence Stillages designed, prototyped and sold. |
Quarter 4 - April 2018
 First CNC lathe purchased - Mori Seiki SL4t |  First batch work for CNC machining |  First CNC machined components |
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 Finished bushes machined in workshop. |
Quarter 4 was exciting when our first CNC lathe was bought and sited ready for us to repair, we fixed the lathe and ran our first paying machined jobs through it.
Quarter 1 - July 2018
 First Manual Mill - Microcut. |  First milling on the Microcut. |  Components machined on Microcut, facing, drilling and tapping. |
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Quarter 1 2018 TFT purchased their first manual milling machine to start being able to offer the second operations. First chips were made after some crucial tooling purchases.
Quarter 2 - October 2018
 Small workshop at full capacity. |  New workshop lease signed in Malaga, from 200sqm to 350sqm unit. |  New workshop being filled up. |
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Quarter 2 - 2018, TFT had outgrown their 200 sqm starting shop and decided to move from Ashfield to Malaga, new workshop had 350 sqm with yard access.
Quarter 3 - January 2019
 Trades For Titans Pty Ltd becomes a company. |  Hafco BM-53VE manual mill purchased still wrapped. |  Hafco manual mill unwrapped ready for production. |
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 Mori Seiki SL5H bought from the Eastern States and installed. |  Mori Seiki SL5H still on truck. |
Quarter 3 - 2019, TFT became a company and started purchasing more fixed assets. A Hafco BM-53VE was the second manual mill added along with the second CNC lathe, a Mori Seiki SL5H.
Quarter 4 - April 2019
 Director Luke leaves full time employment to focus on TFT. |  Director Adam leaves full time employment to focus on TFT. |  Twin Navara's were purchased for customer visits and deliveries. |
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 Intricate bronze bushes made utilising milling and turning capability. |  Special bushes made utilising turning and milling capability. |  Pipes bored and fitted ready for welding. |
 First deep profile turning in lathe. |
Quarter 4, 2019 - Both directors now fully pledged their time to TFT, they obtained a couple of vehicles and hit the road to drum up some new clients, this came with new machining to increase their capability.
Quarter 1 - July 2019
 Plasma bed refurb contract won. |  Miscellaneous machined components. |  Plasma bed refurb work in progress. |
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 Turning, grooving and threading, increasing capabilities. |  Quality machined and assembled rollers. |
Quarter 1, 2019 - TFT won a plasma bed refurb contract that it carried out, then increased capability with some different machining work coming through the door.
Quarter 2 - October 2019
Quarter 2, 2019 - This quarter we seen our milling increase dramatically which pushed us to commit to a CNC VMC for the next quarter. A couple more clients joined our list varying our scope of works offered.
 Block milling, batch work. |  Block milling, batch work. |  Intricate multi stage turning and milling. |
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 Turning and milling. |  Fabrication work. |  Last truck for the year. |
Quarter 3 - January 2020
 Ethan, 1st year Fitter and Machinist starting day. |  Mazak mill being scrapped. |  Patria forklift being scrapped. |
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 Large batch work machining. |  Doosan 6700L arrival day. |  Training day on Doosan 6700L. |
 First components for the year. |
Quarter 3, 2020 - This quarter was an explosive start for TFT in 2020, a large reshuffle of assets and huge spike of work. Ethan commenced a Fitter and machinist apprenticeship with us. We scrapped a forklift and had it upgraded with a replacement, also removed a Mazak mill due to non repairable issues but have replaced it with a brand new Doosan 6700L mill, such a beast.
Quarter 4 - April 2020
 New Mori Seiki SL25 being installed. |  New Mori Seiki SL25 being installed. |  Miscellaneous machined components. |
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 Miscellaneous machined components. |  Miscellaneous machined components. |
Quarter 4, 2020 - In this quarter we again added to the asset pool purchasing another CNC lathe, Mori Seiki SL25 was installed. Shop is starting to fill up now, thoughts have been about moving in the near future.
Quarter 1 - July 2020
Quarter 1, 2020 - We had another post crane installed this quarter but had eyes on another CNC lathe, unfortunately we were outgrowing our unit and went on the hunt for a bigger shop. We found this opportunity around the corner in a workshop we have been eyeing off for the last couple of years, lease was executed at the end of quarter.
 Adam showing off his colours. |  Second post crane being installed, workshop getting crowded. |  Miscellaneous machined components. |
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 Opportunity for new workshop found. |  New workshop lease agreed upon, Mulgul Road. |
Quarter 2 - October 2020
 Lines marked for machines in prep at Mulgul. |  Cranes installed at Mulgul. |  Moving the big Doosan 6700L in. |
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 Heavy machines sited. |  New Doosan Puma 2600SY lathe arrives. |  New Doosan Puma 2600SY lathe installed. |
Quarter 2, 2020 - In this quarter we had minimal downtime with the move, moved all of our heavy assets and were back into operation within the week whilst cleaning the old facility in the interim. Our next lathe arrived which is a game changer for us, the Doosan 2600 SY.
Quarter 3 - January 2021
 Bushes, caps and small shaft ends |  Large QT80 wedges |  Big hollow caps machining |
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 5S improvements, marking out machine envelopes and laydown areas |  Bushes and guides machining |  Large guides and small shaft turning with threads |
Quarter 3, 2021 - This quarter we were on the hustle machining whatever we could get our hands on to improve cashflow to pay for the move, we also started working on our 5S improvements for the shop layout.
Quarter 4 - April 2021
 Miscellaneous collets |  Special links |  Big Josh, Apprentice Fitter and Machinist |
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 Special wheel hubs |  Machined all over, drill and tapped hubs |  Fabricated components |
Quarter 4, 2021 - This quarter we continued to hustle out the machining jobs bringing on board some new clients and welcoming Josh to the team offering another Apprenticeship.
Quarter 1 - July 2021
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Quarter 1, 2021 - This quarter was fun, added a 5T overhead gantry to our capability along with a barfeeder on the Puma 2600SY that we have named "Marvo", the start of our lights out game. Along came Zona to duel trade with us, already setting and programming.
Quarter 2 - October 2021
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Quarter 2, 2021 - This quarter was all about increasing our capability on the machines, taking on jobs that we would have never thought about doing in-house, it was a real think outside the box kind of quarter. Was great to close out a really busy year with a bang.
Quarter 3 - January 2022
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Quarter 3, 2022 - Not sure why Zona is always laughing, we must have some funny jokes... Made our way to Kalgoorlie to let them know who we are and bring home some new work, nice and busy quarter with WIP. Oh, and we bought another hunker introducing another 2 axis lathe to our capability with a 12 inch chuck.
Quarter 4 - April 2022
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Quarter 4, 2022 - THE BEAST arrived, we installed a brand new Doosan 750L VMC early in the quarter and put it straight to work complimenting our other milling capability. Again took on some more weird and wonderful work boosting our capability using some CAM software Fusion 360. Oh and "pinchy" joined our team in the fish tank as head of security.
Quarter 1 - July 2022
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Quarter 1, 2023 - Well safe to say we started the 2023 financial year off with a bang, 1 week turnaround on a shutdown piece of mine equipment, lucky we had the beasts bed for this large piece of equipment. Then lots of odd machining and fabrication jobs all round.
Quarter 2 - October 2022
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Quarter 2, 2023 - Boom, our next Puma arrived, we commissioned another Y axis mill turn but with a bigger chuck and tailstock. Then yet again, took on some more work to test out our capabilities.