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OUR HISTORY

Starting Imatech

International Materials & Technology, trading as Imatech, was incorporated in 1994 by the founder and current managing director, Warwick Rule. Warwick's work experience convinced him that there were great opportunities for advanced materials for the protection of process equipment in industry. After focused market research into the best available materials technologies worldwide, Warwick signed a distribution agreement with A.W. Chesterton Company, USA for representation of their Advanced Reinforced Composites (ARC) and Technical Maintenance Products in New South Wales, Australia. Imatech was born.

Rapid Growth

Imatech quickly expanded into the other States and eventually became the Master Distributor for these Chesterton products for the whole of Australia. In the years following, Imatech rapidly grew to approximately 40 employees in 2006, and expanded its presence in industry by delivering better and smarter solutions and by developing new, innovative business opportunities.

Imatech Safety Surfaces

An early example of one such developments by Imatech is the proprietary design of a range of high-performance safety surfaces suitable for harsh physical and chemical industrial conditions. These surfaces have since been evaluated by independent bodies as having the highest coefficient of friction of any commercial safety surface available.

Acquisition of Engineering Supplies (EST) Tasmania

Imatech also acquired the assets and technology of Engineering Supplies Tasmania (EST), which added retail distribution of the complete range of metal working tools to the company's product and service offering.

Creation of Imatech Water Technologies

In 2005, Imatech acquired the distribution rights t two advanced water treatment and filtration systems, VRTX and Zero Gravity Filters, and created a dedicated company Imatech Water Technologies to drive and develop the associated business. Corro-Ceramics, the latest Imatech Innovation One of the most exciting new products to be brought to market by Imatech in recent years is "CorroCube" and "CorroTile", a rubber-ceramic composite for ultra-resistant wear liners for heavy impact and sliding abrasion, as found in bulk materials handling applications. This product is rapidly gaining a very strong reputation in the Australian mining industry and further endorses Imatech's profile as a prominent supplier of high-technology and innovative solutions to industry.

Imatech Today

In the past 12 years, Imatech has grown into a diversified industrial systems and services company focused on delivering smarter solutions using the best available technologies combined with the unique problem-solving skills of its workforce.

Imatech currently employ a large number of people across Australia and has grown from a small business to a medium-large enterprise. Imatech has secured distribution rights to a great number of the best available industrial technologies, and what really sets Imatech apart from the rest is the quality, skills and commitment contained in its workforce. This powerful combination of hi-tech and skilled human resources provides a significant growth potential to the company well into the future.