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2 | BCP Precast
W
ith over 30 years of experience under their
belts, BCP Precast has established itself
as one of the leading manufacturers of precast concrete products in all of Australia. BCP offers a wide variety of concrete products ranging from
drainage type products used in commercial plumbing to recreational products being used for skate
ramps. “The company was founded in 1971 by Paul
Beresford whose name is actually the B in Beresford
Concrete Products,” says Wrix Gasteen, the current
CEO of BCP. Having begun as concrete providers for
the plumbing industry, BCP Precast took off and expanded their range of products. “Over the years that
business prospered and grew from that single site.
There was an acquisition to include the Sydney market. In June of 2007, the business was acquired by
a private equity group, NBC Capital, and then went
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on through further expansion,” says
Wrix. Today no other company is able to
meet BCP Precast’s standards of range
and quality.
Wrix was appointed chairman of the
group and then took over as CEO only
nine short months after their acquisition. During his time with BCP Precast,
Wrix has witnessed both ups and downs.
While initially they experienced growth,
it was not long after that they began to
feel the effects of the Global Financial
Crisis. “Many infrastructure and building projects were put on hold,” says Wrix.
“However, currently we are experiencing a significant boom. BCP Precast is
uniquely situated to take advantage of
the significant construction work that is
happening currently on the redevelop-
ment of the Pacific highway.” There is a
substantial amount of work being done
on freeways and BCP has submitted successful tenders for many of the essential
products such as road barriers. There
has been a lot of freeway work in New
South Wales and in the Sydney market,
and BCP has been appointed a substantial share of it.
Products
BCP Precast has over 30 different products for different needs. In addition to
the drainage type products being used in
commercial plumbing businesses, they
also have a large range of products for
the civil engineering and infrastructure
industries. BCP also offers products under several different brands while still
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maintaining the trusted BCP quality.
“The different brands are manufactured
within the same factory but we market
them separately,” says Wrix. BCP Precast offers concrete products for the infrastructure, civil, construction, and also
the commercial industries. Their clients
stem from civil contractors, construction
groups, plumbers, councils, government
bodies, resellers, and distributors.
BCP Precast has a growing product
range. Their concrete solutions include
the modular bridge system, SMARTspan
environmental products from StreamClean Gross Pollutant traps, and recreational products from skate ramps and
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building systems. Also, in the last few
years, there has been in an increase in
the number of environmental products
that they offer. “These days in Australia major highways have to build underpasses to allow wildlife to go from one
side of the highway to the other,” explains Wrix.
All products offered by BCP Precast are
quality assured and meet the highest
standards. They have created a “quality culture” to ensure their products not
only meet standards but surpass them.
Their reputation is built not only on their
quality products but also on their effort
to continuously improve. BCP Precast is
consistently working to make their products and service better for their clients.
It has become one of their core strategies to maintain themselves as the best
in the business.
Custom built for
your needs
Though BCP Precast offers standard
type products such as modular bridge
systems, these products are certainly
not universal and will not work for every project. BCP has recognised this
and responded accordingly. BCP Precast offers custom built concrete made
to meet specific client designs and re-
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quirements. “We do a lot of custom engineered products where a company
wants a special design for a special set
of circumstances,” says Wrix. “One time,
for example, we had to line the outside
of 12 metre long pipes with concrete,
and these pipes had a diameter of 1.5
metres. We coated them on the outside
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and the pipelines were laid across the
Sydney harbour. It was a very unusual
project.” Engineers often design their
own products and then BCP is able to
take that design and then build a mould
to suit the manufacture. Wrix says that
this sort of arrangement happens quite
a bit.
Current Growth and
challenges
BCP Precast, like many other companies, has benefited from the government
stimulus packages. “While they took a
long while to come into operations, the
federal government has funded many
different programs. There have been
many building projects within schools
all around Australia and many of our
products were used by the contractors
who went in to undertake these works,”
says Wrix.
While infrastructure overall does not
seem to be growing in Australia, Wrix
explains that BCP is very well situated.
“Where the infrastructure work is happening, we are there.” In addition to
infrastructure, the mining, oil, and gas
industries are experiencing a significant
boom, which is working in BCP’s favour.
“There is a new Liquefied Natural Gas
(LNG) plant being built in Queensland
and we are supplying all the drainage
products which are being used,” says
Wrix. However, the fact remains that
no business is without its challenges.
“The market is very competitive, and
therefore getting the right balance between quality, safety, and cost is always
a challenge,” says Wrix. Maintaining a
quality product is the first area of priority for BCP, but it is crucial to do this is
in a cost effective manner. BCP Precast
is a wholly Australian owned manufacturer and is currently competing in the
market against foreign owned multinational companies.
The future of BCP Precast
Being one of the leaders in the industry,
BCP has no plans to slow down. They are
looking to continue to grow for a number
of years to come and as the resources
boom continues, BCP is set to do just
that. As for infrastructure, BCP is hoping it will also continue strongly for the
next few years. They hope to continue to
receive custom projects. o
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Freecall: 1800 8040 134
www.bcp.com.au