EPTEC GROUP
EPTEC Group celebrates its 20th birthday this year . CEO Joe Viglione tells Niki Waldegrave how its work was instrumental to the preservation of the Royal Australian Navy fleet and the company ’ s vision for the next two decades
Preservation and rehabilitation engineering contractor EPTEC Group turns 20 in September – and if you ’ re not familiar with it , you ’ ll certainly know some of its biggest projects .
From the new build of the ANZAC Frigates to maintenance for the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ), Flinders Street Station , the Burnley & Domain Tunnels , and US air craft carrier , USS Abraham Lincoln , EPTEC has worked on them all .
Its specialist expertise spans services such as corrosion protection , lining and waterproofing , concrete rehabilitation , abrasive blasting , hydro-blasting , painting , building façade refurbishment , fibre reinforced plastics and thermal insulation . EPTEC also has a long history for serving the defence , water and wastewater , energy and resources , infrastructure and mining industries .
Joe Viglione , CEO , says : “ We ’ ve done work on nearly every surface ship in the RAN . The Anzac Frigate was our biggest project and the founding one . It laid the foundations for the company from March 1998 until May 2006 .
“ It was undertaken at Williamstown in Victoria and we had up to 300 employees involved , some of whom are still with us , like our production manager Bruno Dumont , our project manager Chris Foster , and our supervisor Mark Sanders . They were instrumental in delivering that project .”
The next two milestones were Project Protector for the Royal New Zealand Navy from 2006 – 2010 , and the upgrade of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne before the 2006 Commonwealth Games .
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