Flip Screen AuStrAliA - Business Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga Business Profile Manufacturing
Flip Screen Australia
One of Australia’s Fastest Start-up Companies
Flip Screen Australia was founded in Wagga Wagga, NSW
by Sam Turnbull in 2002 to manufacture and market Sam’s
invention – the Flip Screen. The Flip Screen is a portable
mechanical screening attachment built for skid steers,
excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes and telehandlers.
The Wagga Wagga Advantage
Sam Turnbull owned a demolition and excavation
business in Sydney prior to buying a farm near
Wagga Wagga and developing the Flip Screen.
“The cost of land here in Wagga Wagga is about
half the cost of similar land in Sydney” says Sam.
“The cost of living is so much less than Sydney.”
“Freight and logistics is an advantage for us from
Wagga Wagga as we can readily service major
markets in Sydney and Melbourne. It takes 31
days for one of our containers to be shipped from
our Wagga Wagga factory to our facility in Chino
(Los Angeles) in California, so we are virtually as
close to our international markets as we would be
if we were in Sydney.”
“Our company aims to expand exponentially!
There is zero frustration here – no congestion,
restaurants, al fresco cafes - I really like the feel
of the place.”
‘Wagga Wagga has a resilient economy – local
businesses were not effected nearly as much by the
Global Financial Crisis as those in the capital cities…you
would hardly know it was going on if you just spoke to
businesses serving the Wagga market!’ Sam Turnbull,
Founder and CEO Flip Screen Australia.
City of
Wagga Wagga
Business Profile
The Flip Screen was inspired by Sam Turnbull’s
experiences in the demolition and excavation
industry where the usual way to screen material
was either to have an excavator put sand through
a huge screening plant, or companies would adapt
their excavator or loader buckets by boring holes
straight through them using acetylene torches.
Flip Screen’s high
volume screening
bucket will inexpensively
and efficiently sort
and recover almost
all aggregates onsite,
making it perfect for
industries such as civil
works, construction,
demolition, steel recycling, skip bins, waste
transfer, quarries, mining, landscaping and
railway ballast.
Business Review Weekly listed Flip Screen as one
of Australia’s fastest start-up companies in 2009.
Since its launch in the international market, Flip
Screen has won numerous prestigious awards
including CivEnEx 2009 Most Innovative Product,
2008 Anthill Magazine “Cool Company” Award
for Innovation, 2006 World Ag Expo in Tulare
California where it was selected as New Product
for being “truly unique
and innovative” and the
2003 Invention of the
Year at the Australian
National Field Days.
“Business Review Weekly
listed Flip Screen as one of
Australia’s fastest start-up
companies in 2009.”
The company spends
a substantial 14% of
turnover on research and
development, which has underpinned the success
of the product and its development for a vast array
of applications.
The Flip Screen has been a huge success in
the market place and after only eight years of
operation, Flip Screens are sold to 19 countries
in a multitude of applications. The company
manufactures 15 models of the Flip Screen,
and a new product, a crusher bucket, is planned.
City of
Wagga Wagga
Flip Screen Australia currently employs 22
people who have a range of skills and expertise
in engineering, marketing, financial control,
industrial design, CNC programming, machining
and pressing, production, hydraulic fitting, boiler
making and spray painting.
James Davis
Sam Turnbull
Manager Economic Development
Founder and CEO
Wagga Wagga City Council
Flip Screen Australia
Phone: 02 69 269135 / 0437 761 493
Phone: 02 6931 8002
Email: davis.james@wagga.nsw.gov.au
Email: sam@flipscreen.com.au