W.E. Smith is an Australian based manufacturer of process equipment for the oil and gas, petrochemicals, minerals processing, ... desalination, renewable energy, chemicals, steam generation, traditional power and renewable power industries. W.E. Smith was established in 1922 in Sydney, Australia, transferring its operation to a purpose built fabrication facility in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia in 1968. The factory has a total workshop area of 7000 sq. m. The configuration of the factory enables all major aspects of heat exchanger and vessel manufacture to be undertaken in-house. This includes activities from engineering and design through to machining, forming, fabrication, stress relief, testing, NDT and final surface treatment for heat exchangers and vessels up to 400 tonne, 6.5m dia and 70m overall length. The continued development of quality systems and welding technology in-house has enabled the company to establish itself as the premier supplier of S&T heat exchangers and specialist vessels and columns in Australia. This included equipment manufactured in sophisticated materials such as 5% Cr- Mo, stainless steels, duplex & super-duplex stainless steels, titanium, incolloy, hastelloy, zirconium, nonferrous materials, clad materials and heavy wall thicknesses (to 300mm). read more