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PLUMBING CONNECTION
AUTUMN 2016
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ou may have noticed MM Kembla recently developed
a “Quality Reliability Service” company stamp to
celebrate its 100 year anniversary based on its
founding principles of quality product, reliability and
unrivalled customer service. It’s a logo that is well and truly
earned after 100 years working with the plumbing industry
here and overseas.
In fact no other Australian company’s history quite
sums up how important copper has been to the country’s
development or the changing shape of plumbing and
construction as our cities keep growing.
100 YEARS YOUNG
Copper has always been a hard working, high demand
metal, but back in 1916 when on March 16 the original
‘Metal Manufactures Limited’ company was set up at Port
Kembla near Wollongong in NSW it was probably the world’s
most important.
War, industrialisation, electrification, new forms of
transport like trains and cars, and the start of urbanisation all
made copper a crucial asset, but while Australia already had a
growing copper mining sector, it lacked a local manufacturing
base to produce finished products like tubes and pipes.
NOT MANY COMPANIES HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A CENTURY, BUT MM KEMBLA SAYS IT’S JUST GETTING STARTED.
JOHN FENNELL
TAKES A LOOK AT A UNIQUE COMPANY.
100 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN
COPPER QUALITY
NO OTHER AUSTRALIAN
COMPANY’S HISTORY QUITE SUMS
UP HOW IMPORTANT COPPER
HAS BEEN TO THE COUNTRY’S
DEVELOPMENT
COPPER CONNECTION
JOHN FENNELL