Email Limited
Email Limited was a manufacturing conglomerate operating mainly in Australia.
The company was formed from the merger of Electricity Meter Manufacturing Co Pty Ltd, established in 1912, and New System Telephones Pty Ltd, established in 1920. The company was incorporated in New South Wales on 30 November 1934 as Electricity Meter & Allied Industries Ltd; it adopted the Email name (an acronym) on 20 October 1951. Email's original and longest running business is the manufacturing of electric, gas and water meters. At one time there would have been few houses in Australia which did not have an Email meter.
In 1946 after World War II, Email obtained the former Orange Small Arms Factory at Orange, New South Wales, which was refitted to manufacture electricity meters, pumps, radio parts and refrigerators. This factory is still in operation and remains the largest industrial manufacturing plant in inland New South Wales, now operated by Electrolux. The Orange Plant has the latest state of the art technologies and manufacturing concepts. Continued investment into the plant by Electrolux is aimed at making the Orange facility internationally competitive, whilst also maintaining a leadership role in the Australian domestic refrigerator market.
Operations were expanded to include US, New Zealand and Malaysian manufacturing facilities. In the 1980s the company acquired control of several large Australian manufacturing companies including Kelvinator Ltd (1980) (which was a branch of the US-based Kelvinator business), McIlwraith-Davey Industries Ltd (1984), Simpson Holdings Limited (1986), Brownbuilt Ltd (1988) and the steel process and distribution business of Bunge International (1989).
In April 1993 the company announced it would stop manufacturing industrial racking products and commercial/industrial stainless steel products. This led to the closure of the Caringbah plant in NSW and the Coburg plant in Victoria. Appliance production was located at Orange, New South Wales and Adelaide.
In 1994, their petrol bowser, bay loading controller (BLC) and bulk fuel loading rack manufacturing business, Email Electronics (by then known as Email Petroleum Systems), closed its manufacturing factory in Bayswater, Victoria, sold off its circuit board department to former staff, then sold off much of its remaining manufacturing and stock assets before moving to a portable building at the affiliated NVE site in Hallam, Victoria in 1996 where it continued to be asset-stripped and the remaining staff laid off. Their Omega 3000 software product, which controlled the BLC hardware and bulk fuel-loading site access, was sold to Diamond Key International (DKI) which was set up by former Email senior staff around that time. DKI has operated from Rowville, Victoria since then.
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