Reputation Carried Far

Newcastle Herald

Monday March 31, 2008

with GREG WENDT Business Editor

HUNTER-based manufacturing company Tyton Conveyors has been been quietly but rapidly expanding its business.

Tyton is a leading designer and manufacturer of belt conveyor components for a variety of bulk material handling operations.

Demand for its products is strong in industries including collieries, quarries, sugar mills, goldmines, iron ore plants and grain handling.

Tyton Conveyors began life as a BHP company in the 1960s and was sold in 1988.

In late 2006 the company became part of the Valley Longwall International group.

General manager Michael Graham said the company's success was due to the steady growth of its contracts and client base.

Tyton, which employs 60 people at its workshop and headquarters at Tomago, will successfully complete by early April a $6 million contract to supply conveyor idlers to the Newmont-owned Boddington goldmine in Western Australia.

Michael said the idlers consisted of rollers and frames, which make up the undercarriage of a conveyor belt.

WEBSITE GROWTH

EVENTS website Stickytickets.com.au has made some strategic appointments following the company's rapid growth.

Co-founder Matt Freedman has been appointed chief executive officer.

Matt is also chief executive officer of Hunter-based website company Redback Solutions.

Angela Handley has moved from Brisbane to become national marketing manager, based in the Newcastle office.

Matt said since the launch of the website in the Hunter last August use had grown rapidly.

There were more than 1300 members and 155 event organisers using the site in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania.

Newcastle Business Club used the site for its successful lunch last week with former Wallaby John Eales, and is using the site for ticket sales to its monthly business lunches.

GREATER FAREWELL

MORE than 250 staff gathered at Broadmeadow Racecourse on Friday night to farewell Greater Building Society chief executive officer John Arnold.

John will retire on Wednesday after 28 years at the Greater, including 17 years at the helm.

He will hand over the reins to assistant general manager Don Magin.

BABY SLEEP SEMINARS

BABY sleep consultant Merewether's Natalie Ebrill says she wants to give sleep-deprived parents their lives back.

Natalie is expanding her business, Sleep and Settle, to include regular seminars in Newcastle and East Maitland.

Natalie said the three-hour seminars for parents, expectant parents, grandparents and child-care workers were separated into children's age groups, up to 12 months old, and from one to five years, to cover age appropriate sleeping, feeding and flexible sleep strategies.

More details on the I Want to Give You Your Life Back seminars can be found at www.sleepandsettle.com.au or phone 4963 4460. AWARDS

? Hunter Subaru, Maitland has been named Subaru's 2007 National retailer of the year.

Dealer principal Rob Dawes said the prestigious award, which involved all 110 Subaru dealers nationwide, was great recognition for Hunter Subaru and for the entire Hunter Region. ? The team at Bakers Delight Warners Bay has been voted the number one bakery in a recent competition involving 39 Bakers Delight stores across regional NSW.

Warners Bay bakery owner Richard Windeyer and his team were presented with top honours for overall product quality. ? Newcastle firm Lawler Partners has been named overall best value firm in Australia in the Business Review Weekly Client Choice Awards for 2008.

FESTIVAL FOR BUSINESS

THE Hunter Means Innovation Festival will be held from May 5 to 16 around the region.

The festival intends to highlight the Hunter as a place where innovative business and industries can develop and thrive.

A wide group of regional stakeholders have committed their support for the festival, including the Department of State and Regional Development, AusIndustry, Austrade, Hunter Business Chamber, Hunter Economic Development Corporation, University of Newcastle and HunterNet.

VEHICLE FOR HIGH FLYERS

ANY corporate high flyers still buoyant after the recent mayhem on the stock market might be interested in a rare opportunity to own their own aircraft.

Hunter-based Slattery Auctions will be offering for sale a Beechjet 400A, one of only four in Australia, next month.

Slattery Auctions managing director Patrick Slattery said the aircraft seldom come onto the market and was valued about $2.5 million to $3 million.

Two Robinson helicopters will also be up for sale at the auction at Bankstown Airport on May 7.

DIARY DATES

? FRIDAY: Property Council of Australia Hunter chapter, guest speaker Green Building Council chief executive Romilly Madew, "It's not easy being green . . . or is it?", 12pm to 2pm, Newcastle City Hall. ? APRIL 7: Newcastle Airport, official opening of aircraft apron extension, 10.30am, Terminal Building, Williamtown. ? APRIL 15: Razer Industries, official opening of new Tomago Workshop and HunterNet general meeting, 5pm, 1 Laverick Avenue, Tomago. RSVP Jodie.dawson@hunternet.com.au ? APRIL 18: Ampcontrol, 40th anniversary black tie dinner, 7pm, Newcastle City Hall.

The biz

' Who on Earth is there left

to ask about this proposal? '

- Newcastle restaurateur Neil Slater after Federal

Heritage Minister Peter Garrett called for another

round of public comment over the proposed

development of Nobbys headland.

© 2008 Newcastle Herald

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