Boomerang Keeps Coming Back To Capral

When two Australian heavyweights come together to produce transport equipment, you can be sure it is going to be good. Capral and Boomerang Engineering have been working together to for many decades, enabling Boomerang Engineering to deliver solid trailers, tippers, and other transport and mining equipment to local and international markets.

“Boomerang uses a lot of Capral aluminium to build our grain trailers and aluminium side tippers,” Boomerang Sales Technical Support Manager, Daniel Hoschke, says. “The majority of our trailer material is supplied by Capral. Our manufacturing is based in Western Australia, but we sell our products across Australia and to a global market Boomerang Engineering and Capral have been working together for a very long time. Back in the day, Capral used to organise a lot of our aluminium sandcasting moulds, and even now we have custom-made dies and special materials made with Capral material.”

Capral has capabilities to produce exactly what customers like Boomerang Engineering require for their manufacturing needs, including cut to length material, long length extrusions up to 17m and long length plate up to 12m. Capral also offers aluminium processing solutions and can provide slotting, routing, drilling, punching, mitre cutting, knurling, de-burring, sheet and plate routing, cutting and bending to streamline customer manufacturing processes.

“Capral’s extrusion capabilities are second-to-none,” Daniel says. “Over the years we have had many, many custom-made extrusions with Capral. Boomerang works with Capral to get the specialised material that we need for our manufacturing needs, and they design and deliver these custom-made extrusions to Boomerang exactly how we want them. A lot of our specialised products have very specific materials, their own specific shapes and we source them from Capral. They are always willing to work with us to design our custom material extrusions, which makes our job easier. We are very happy with the service the Capral team provide. They come and see us every couple of weeks to make sure everything is good. They deliver on time, which is a big plus, and we don’t have issues ever.”

With worldwide shipping disruptions caused as a result of Covid-19, many manufacturers in Australia that were sourcing materials from overseas saw major delays. However, for Boomerang Engineering having a local aluminium supplier helped to minimise interruptions. Being Boomerang’s main supplier, Capral made sure the manufacturer did not face materials delay. Once the initial restrictions of 2020 lifted, Capral’s operations rebounded, and its Victorian manufacturing and distribution facilities continued to operate at near full capacity through Stage 4 restrictions.

“Covid has created a lot of shipping issues and that affected materials supply, but Capral has been quite consistent,” Daniel says. “Certain materials are very hard to come by at the moment, but Capral has kept up to our requirements and met all our needs, which is great for us.”

Capral has a wide distribution network across Australia that ensures all its aluminium extrusions and rolled materials are supplied to the customers quickly.

Capral also offers next day delivery service that helps customers reduce stock inventory, warehouse space and manufacturing time. The service extends to custom pieces in various lengths and sizes, and even full kits ready for manufacturing refrigerated trailers, tippers, flat tops, recreational vehicles and box trailers.

“We have produced more aluminium trailers in the last couple of years than we have done in Boomerang’s history,” Daniel says. “It is one of the biggest growth elements for us. And all of those new builds have been carried out using Capral materials.”

This Case Study was originally published by Trailer Magazine