The company offers an extensive product range from some of the world’s most respected suppliers, backed by expert personnel who carry a strong passion for the machinery they work with.
Pipeline Equipment Rentals (PER) was formed in 2020 with the intention of offering a wide range of pipeline construction equipment to any customer in need of high quality and reliable equipment, technical support, skilled operators and mechanics for any infrastructure project across Australia.
Although a new entity, PER Business Development Manager Fabio Resimini said the experience level of the team far outweighs the age of the company.
“We are very young as a company, but our team is filled with years of experience in the construction industry, shared all the way from our mechanics and operators to our directors and everyone in between,” he said.
“All together we make up more than 100 years of combined industry experience. As individuals in the company, we are very well known – the construction companies know we are here to help.”
A mechanical engineer, Mr Resimini himself has been involved in the industry for more than a decade now and carries with him a lifelong passion for “anything with an engine”.
“I grew up in a workshop,” he said.
“My background during my university years was racing and I was a race engineer. [Construction machinery] was a transition to a bit of a different field but still with equipment and vehicles of some sort and I just found them fascinating.
“I first started in 2011 as an Equipment Coordinator for a Tier 1 construction company. Back then, I was managing a fleet of pipeline construction equipment very similar to the one we have assembled here at PER.”
After eventually becoming the Plant and Equipment Fleet Superintendent and managing the company’s entire fleet both in Australia and internationally, Mr Resimini found his way to becoming the Project Engineer for a smaller pipeline construction company, whose success building pipelines allowed it to acquire an increasing amount of specialised equipment.
“We got to the point where the fleet was quite large, so the directors decided it was time to expand the offer of our fleet of equipment to external parties knowing we would be offering not just a machine but also experience, knowledge and technical skills with it, so PER was founded,” he said.
“Partnership and innovation are central to everything we do. We actively work with our customers to understand their day-to-day challenges and future needs to develop effective solutions.”
Extensive range
PER equipment range consists of a large variety of highly specialised pipeline equipment and the company already services many large and small customers.
“We service small companies that might be doing small projects around town, who don’t have the financial power to purchase new and expensive specialist equipment, to those that lack the contract continuity to be able to afford these machines,” said Mr Resimini.
“And we service the large Tier 1 contractors that have their own fleet but during peak time on a project need some extra pieces of equipment to reach the numbers that guarantee the productivity required.”
Headquartered in Western Australia but servicing the entire country, PER is keeping its fleet specialised, having no intention to move into the common earthmoving equipment market.
“Without a doubt our pipelayers, trenching machines and padding machine are the best sellers, but our tracked carriers are very close too,” said Mr Resimini.
“The pipelayers are very popular due to their wide range of lifting capacity: we can offer a machine suitable for any load between 1 and 40 t. They are all design registered, individually registered and annually inspected to comply with the strictest WorkSafe WA regulations.
“The trenching and padding machines popularity is indeed linked with our wet hire option: these are high productivity but high maintenance machines and when customers choose us, they choose peace of mind, knowing the machine is operated and maintained by our highly skilled crew to achieve the set productivity goals.
“The tracked carriers are in high demand for their versatility: with rubber or steel tracks, low ground pressure, high carrying capacity and the feature of a knuckle boom crane, their applications are effectively limitless, suitable for any industry from drilling exploration to sulphate of potash surface mining, from pipeline construction to open pit mining.”
PER also has the capability to supply equipment on short notice due to the size and variety of its fleet, and Mr Resimini says machinery is always ready to go out on a project.
“It’s all equipment from the world’s most respected suppliers,” he said.
“There are not many companies like us in Australia. We’ve been purchasing equipment for some time to build this fleet that can cover every single aspect of pipeline construction.
“And not just pipeline construction. We can help any sector of the construction industry achieve its goals.”
Mr Resimini said with several large-scale projects on the horizon around the country, he was looking forward to what promised to be a busy 18 months for the new company.
“I have a great passion for equipment, I love what we do.”
For more information visit the Pipeline Equipment Rentals website.
This article was featured in the May 2021 edition of The Australian Pipeliner. To view the magazine on your PC, Mac, tablet or mobile device, click here.
