Bradken has been providing quality, customer-focussed products and services to international companies for almost a century.
Our products drive productivity and performance for customers in mining, rail, energy, defence and castings – both industrial and structural. We deliver expertise, innovation and quality across each of these markets.
Select your market to see how we can help you.
Capabilities
- Analysis and testing
- Fabrication and casting
- FEA and fatigue analysis
- Field services
- Freight rollingstock design
- Manufacture
- Manufacture of high chrome iron products up to 5m diameter and 20,000kg
- Material selection and development
- Process technology
- Product design and development
- Specialist melting, moulding, heat treatment, machining and inspection equipment.
- Technical service and support
- Wagon design validation and testing
- Dragline bucket scale testing
Technical expertise
- 3D CAD design
- 3D CAM patternmaking
- CAE
- Casting simulation software
- Discrete Element Modelling analysis
- Dynamic simulation analysis
- Fatigue analysis
- Finite element analysis
- Instrumentation and data acquisition
- Competitive manufacturing
- Liner wear monitoring and reporting
- Maintenance, service and refurbishment
- Manufacturing process technology
- Material development
- Metallurgical services
- Robotic manufacturing
- Virtual prototyping
Alliances
- CAST Consult – Material Development
- CSIRO – Discrete Element Modelling
- Interfleet – Wagon and Bogie Dynamic Simulation
- LEAP – Computated Fluid Dynamics development
- Miner – Draftgear and Sidebearer Technology
- Monash University/IRT (Institute of Rail Technology) – Fatigue Analysis and Material Testing
- SKM – Instrumentation and Noise Analysis
- TUNRA (The University of Newcastle Research Association) – Bulk materials handling
- University of Queensland – Material Development
- MARIOS – Materials and Reliability in Oil Sands
Foundries
Asia-Pacific
The Americas