Our History
Accuweigh commenced operations in Adelaide during June 1992 by founding partners,
Brenton Cunningham & Greg Brogan. Brenton’s experience lay in engineering sales,
management, marketing and administration, whilst Greg’s skills lay in mechanical
engineering, automation, and hands-on trouble shooting.
After establishing Accuweigh as the largest scale company in SA, Brenton identified
the huge potential for growth in WA and relocated to Perth establishing Accuweigh’s
first branch office. Client enquiries for packaging and filling equipment led to
the Brenton’s close working relationship with Ross Waller, the owner of a small
packaging machine manufacturer known as WeighPack Services. In 1997, Ross was admitted
as a third partner due to his expertise in design, development and implementation
of packaging equipment and complete automatic production lines.
The goal of the three directors was to establish and maintain a weighing and packaging
company that offers its customers high quality equipment, prompt professional service
and total solutions through a motivated and professional sales, services, and administration
team. The diverse skills and experience of the three directors complimented one
another and reinforced the strengths of the company whilst also satisfying their
own corporate and personal passions, career interests and ambitions.
Soon after, Accuweigh acquired the Avery Scales agency for industrial products in
WA, SA, VIC & NSW which led Accuweigh’s expansion into the eastern states. The
Avery agency for QLD was acquired the following year. Going from strength to strength,
Accuweigh also picked up the exclusive agency for Salter Weightronix during 2001
which was renamed to Salter Australia Pty Ltd, further strengthening the company’s
product mix and taking staff numbers up 65.
A few years later, further acquisitions were made. The first was the operations
of Queensland Weighing Machines (QWM) based in Brisbane and Sydney and then Budpak
Packaging Systems from Newcastle joined the group taking staff numbers to over 100.
Another small packaging company, Conpak, was acquired in Melbourne to expand packaging
expertise for the VIC branch.
Accuweigh is now the largest weighing, filling, packaging and inspection equipment
supplier in Australia with the ability to supply simple solutions up to complete
turnkey systems.
Our competitive advantage is that we are prepared to invest back in to our industry
and our community. We are one of the very few companies in our industry actively
employing and training apprentices and trainees. We have also created an industry-leading
training program to develop our staff and make them more effective.
Accuweigh's charity initiative -
- donates a percentage of each branch’s profits to their local charities, inspiring
our staff to help those in our community that can benefit the most from our financial
assistance.