Stornoway

Stornoway Fact Sheet

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Headquarters

Stornoway
136 Davey Street
Hobart Tasmania 7000
+ 61 3 6224 4774
+ 61 3 6224 1918
stornoway.com.au
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Year Founded

1976

Description

Stornoway is a diversified services group, supplying industrial products and services to people managing water, transport, mining and other significant civil infrastructure systems.

Mission

At Stornoway we are genuine, caring people who speak straight, deliver on our promises and are intensely passionate about everything we do. Our promise is to safely deliver superior, creatively driven and environmentally sensitive infrastructure solutions for the benefit and success of our clients, the enrichment of our community today, and for a sustainable future for our children’s generations.

Products/Services

Management

Number of Employees

70

Ownership

Privately held company.

Stornoway Milestones

1976

Alan Gardner establishes Stornoway Gravel in partnership with Philip Bowden, supplying road gravel to the Launceston area.

1983

Stornoway Gravel wins Tasmania’s first road contract for the upgrading of the Lake Leake Highway.

1984-1999

Stornoway progressively develops as one of Tasmania’s leading civil contractors, specialising in road pavement finishing work. Numerous major road construction projects are undertaken throughout the state, including significant upgrades on all major highways.

1996

Stornoway builds the West Coast Link Road through Tasmania’s remote and environmentally sensitive north-west forests.

Stornoway becomes the first Tasmanian company to achieve Environmental Management System certification to ISO 14001.

1998

Stornoway partners with CSR Emoleum to deliver routine asset maintenance services under the 10 year Southern Tasmanian Long Term Road Maintenance Contract.

Stornoway Maintenance is established.

1999

Recognising the increasing demand for a more specialist environmental focus, Stornoway Environmental is established to drive interstate expansion.

Stornoway wins the first interstate project, undertaking environmental rehabilitation works for Parks Victoria.

2000

Stornoway installs lighting and upgrades Launceston’s York Park oval to AFL standard. AFL players now consider the playing surface as one of Australia’s best.

2001

Stornoway undertakes its first major Rockfall control project, blasting, meshing and bolting sections of the Alpine Way through Victoria’s high country.

2003

Stornoway commences one of the largest rockfall control projects carried out in Australia, installing a protection system over 50,000m2 of rockface in a Queensland coal mine.

Stornoway is now well established nationally delivering specialised projects across Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

2005

Stornoway completes construction of Melbourne’s largest potable water transfer station at Greenvale and establishes Stornoway Water with a focus on providing high-quality water and wastewater treatment and recycling solutions.

Stornoway Water’s first treatment plant is successfully commissioned for a shopping centre west of Brisbane.

2006

Stornoway Water launches AQEO® packaged water and wastewater treatment and recycling systems.

The quarrying business carves out a 30 year milestone.

2007

Stornoway Water builds and installs a wastewater recycling system for a large Queensland coal mine. The system recycles all wastewater from a 600-person accommodation camp. 

A fully transportable Aqeo Membrane Bioreactor wastewater recycling system is successfully developed.

2008

Stornoway enters a period of office relocation with all divisions moving to new premises. Stornoway offices are moved from Raeburn in northern Tasmania to the new office location in Davey Street, Hobart providing a central location for company management. A Maintenance depot is set up in Devonport as the hub of all our activities in order to service the North West road maintenance contract win. Our Water division moves to bigger premises which allows for a larger workshop space to aid in construction of plants. Stornoway Quarrying moves on-site to the quarry providing greater efficiencies to the team there.

Tim Gardner takes over as the Director of Stornoway Group with the sad passing of company co-founder, Alan Gardner.

2009

Stornoway wins first international contract for a defence project in Malaysia and continues to work with leading mining companies in the supply of wastewater treatment solutions.

Stornoway expands its quarrying with the acquisition of Industrial Sands and Silica, providing the company with the opportunity to provide high quality washed and screened sands as well as decorative stone.

Stornoway continues to grow its maintenance work with project work from Hydro Tasmania and local government.

2010

Stornoway wins several substantial water and wastewater treatment projects including Ensham Resources for their mine in Emerald, QLD and Woodside’s Pluto Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project in Karratha, Western Australia.

An application to expand the Raeburn Quarry is approved, allowing for an increased annual output of screened and crushed rock of up to 500,000 tonnes. Stornoway will invest more than $3million in plant and equipment and create much needed jobs for the region.

Stornoway partners with Hydro Tasmania to provide long term road maintenance services, focusing on Hydro’s privately operated 600km road network throughout Tasmania.
Stornoway’s involvement in carbon offsetting through Greening Australia’s Breathe Easy program sees us helping to plant more than 30,000 trees in the Derwent Valley.

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