Universal Augers Australia (formerly Pengo Australia) is a leading manufacturer of auger drilling tools and accessories for the foundation, utility, fencing and agricultural sectors.
“This is a strategic move to grow our product range within Australia and to combine the forces of these two highly-respected companies to further develop the UK and European arms of our businesses,” Digga Australia Managing Director and CEO Suzie Wright says.
Digga, the 2009 Gold Coast Business of the Year and recipient of a 2009 Australian Design Award, is the largest Australian manufacturer and exporter of gearboxes and machinery attachments such as auger drives, trenchers, augers, brooms and wear parts for the earthmoving machinery industry.
Formed in 1981 by founder and c hairman, Stewart Wright, the Gold Coast-based company has pioneered pendulum drilling in Australia and today produce the largest range of compact high-torque planetary drives for the drilling, anchoring and attachment industry.
The Universal products will be coupled with Digga’s award-winning I-Drive and compact high-torque drives to form a comprehensive product portfolio focused around delivering a customised range of product to suit the foundation, screw anchor, horizontal boring and utility market.
Universal Augers International, formerly a division of Pengo Corporation, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of foundation drilling tools and accessories.
In addition to a manufacturing plant based in the United Kingdom serving the European markets, it has sales offices in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Singapore and Shanghai. The Australian manufacturing and distribution facility was opened in 1969.
Universal Augers offers a complete bespoke design service for any type of drilling tool, including small post-hole augers for skid-steer loaders and mini excavators, post-hole augers for pressure diggers and pendulum drills, specialist site investigation tools, mini piling augers including hexagon core augers, CFA augers from 200mm to more than 1.5m in diameter, and large-diametre rotary foundation drilling tools to suit every type of foundation piling machine, including rock augers, core barrels, drilling and cleaning buckets.
The Australian company will be merged into Digga’s state-of-the-art 12,500sqmfacility in Brisbane.
Digga has three additional, company owned, manufacturing plants in Sydney and Melbourne, and Andover, England to support an extensive worldwide dealer network.