Custom Equipment
AGE Developments manufactures custom inflatable packer elements to solve unique problems throughout a variety of industry sectors.
Below are some basic details on custom units designed, manufactured and implemented in the past.
Woodside Petroleum Pile Reforming ProjectBaulderstone Hornibrook Nepean Dam Project
The most successful pile reforming method employed by Woodside to reform the Goodwyn piles involved filling the pile tip with iron ore sand to provide a seal and pressurizing the pile with water after first creating a seal at the top. The effect of pressurisation was to inflate the pile in much the same way as a flattened straw can be inflated back to circular shape by blocking one end and blowing into the other.
Contractor Baulderstone Hornibrook approached AGE Developments to help solve a particularly tricky problem they were encountering on the Nepean Dam Project.
48” dam scour pipe valves on the downstream face of a 1920’s constructed dam needed to be removed, repositioned and re-installed at a later date. With 75m water pressure acting against the valve and the only access being approximately 100m below the dam service road, the job required a custom designed and manufactured tool.
