Smith Broughton
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Midland, WA 6056
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Since 1977 Smith Broughton Industrial Auctioneers has provided asset realisation services to many blue chip and leading resource companies, contractors, financial institutions and government agencies.
Should you have mobile or industrial plant, trucks or equipment you wish to sell, Smith Broughton can offer a flexible solution to your asset realisation issues.
Regardless of whether you wish to sell an individual item of equipment or an entire fleet, simply contact a member of our highly experienced team for a confidential, no obligation appraisal of your obsolete equipment.
Irrespective of equipment locality the team at Smith Broughton are happy to travel to your site to conduct appraisals and work with you to offer a range of asset realisation options that best suits your prevailing circumstances.
Following the appraisal process you will be presented with a range of options including equipment outright purchase on an "as is where is" basis, a guaranteed minimum sale return with participation option, a traditional sale by consignment option or a combination of the above.
Our Challenge is to provide you, the vendor, with a cost effective timely method of managing the obsolete asset disposal process on your behalf. A challenge the Smith Broughton team fully understand and have consistantly achieved on the behalf of thousands of vendors over the past 30 years.
All Smith Broughton Industrial Auctioneers, heavy equipment sales are extensively marketed to ensure potential buyers are well informed about forthcoming plant and equipment to be offered in one of our upcoming auction sales.
A combination of traditional press and journal promotion is utilised along with the distribution of colour photographic flyers, direct email flyers (targeting in particular end user buyers) and web site exposure which features PDF flyers, sale catalogues and equipment specifications with photographs.
One of our key responsibilities is to ensure that potential buyers are made aware that your equipment will immenently be available hence helping to ensure vendors have a successful and efficent Smith Broughton experience.
Our client list includes, but is not limited to:
Resource Companies:
Alcoa is the world’s leader in aluminum smelting capacity, and the world’s second largest producer of aluminum. Alcoa leads the world in alumina production and capacity.
The company has 129,000 employees in 43 countries. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation, and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production, and other capabilities of Alcoa’s businesses as a single solution to customers.
www.alcoa.com/australia/en/home.asp
Argyle Diamonds is the world's largest supplier of diamonds, producing approximately 30 million carats each year from its operations in the East Kimberley region, in the remote north of Western Australia.
The company's production accounts for approximately one-quarter of the world's natural diamond production. Argyle employs approximately 800 employees with the majority working at the mine site.
www.argylediamonds.com.au/sitemap.asp
BHP Billiton is the World's Largest Diversified Resources Company. Formed from a merger between BHP and Billiton, the company has some 38,000 employees working in more than 100 operations in approximately 25 countries.
BHP Billiton owns and operates low cost resource development projects in a variety of commodoties including aluminium, energy coal and metallurgical coal, copper, manganese, iron ore, uranium, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and have substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.
www.bhpbilliton.com/bb/home/home.jsp
Barrick is a leading international gold mining company, with a portfolio of 27 operating mines and seven advanced exploration and development projects located across five continents, and a large land position on the world’s best exploration belts.
The Company holds a pre-eminent position within the gold mining industry. The Company also has the largest reserves in the industry, with pro forma gold mineral reserves of 139 million ounces as at December 31, 2005. For 2006, the Company is targeting gold production of 8.6 million ounces and copper production of approximately 370 million pounds. Total cash costs are expected to be about $285 per ounce of gold and about $0.80 per pound of copper.
Newcrest's stated strategy of developing large, long life mines or smaller high margin mines, which are low on the cost curve, has shaped the operating mine portfolio.
Newcrest currently has five operating mines – four located in Australia and one in Indonesia. All mines are based on the conversion of exploration successes into efficient and cost effective mines. The company has a demonstrated track record of developing and commissioning high quality large scale mines (Cadia Hill, Ridgeway & Telfer) and small scale gold mines to capitalise on high grade deposits (Gosowong, Toguraci & Cracow).
Oxiana owns and operates the Sepon gold and copper mines in Laos, the Golden Grove base and precious metals operation in Western Australia and is currently constructing the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine in South Australia.
Oxiana is also actively exploring in Laos, Thailand, China, Cambodia, Indonesia and Australia, with a strategy to expand our resource base in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
Pilbara Iron, a member of the Rio Tinto Group, is a world-class asset manager that operates and maintains mining, rail and export facilities in the north-west of Western Australia on behalf of asset owners, Hamersley Iron (100% Rio Tinto) and Robe River Iron (53% Rio Tinto) Associates.
Established in 2004, the company facilitates closer co-operation between Hamersley and Robe - two independent Rio Tinto Group iron ore operations with long histories of successful mining in the Pilbara.
Woodside is Australia's largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company with a market capitalisation of more than A$26 billion (US$19 billion).
Woodside has a portfolio of assets, projects, development opportunities and exploration interests in eleven countries spanning four continents.
Finance Organisations;
Bank of Queensland is a cornerstone Queensland organisation, the second largest Queensland-based financial institution and the state’s fifth-largest listed company.
During its 130-year history, it has grown with Queensland and is now spreading its wings into New South Wales and Victoria.
BankWest is a full service bank based in Perth, Western Australia. It is active in all market segments, and its lending is diversified between the business, rural, housing and personal markets, including the full range of deposit products.
In its home State, BankWest is a market leader with about one quarter of all bank advances and deposits. Nearly 660,000 customers are served through an extensive network of branches, agencies and electronic banking facilities, as well as 24-hour telephone and internet banking services.
The Commonwealth Bank is one of Australia's leading financial institutions with businesses in New Zealand, Asia and the United Kingdom.
We are positioned for future growth, and aim to provide accessible banking and financial services for all Australians; fair, safe, challenging and rewarding employment for staff and to reward all shareholders through dividends and capital growth.
Esanda is one of Australia's largest asset-based finance companies. Our total assets are in excess of $10 billion and we've been looking after Australians for half a century. As Australia’s leading provider of vehicle and equipment finance solutions and fixed interest investments, Esanda is constantly looking at our customers' needs to find innovative finance solutions.
And, as a wholly owned subsidiary of ANZ , you can be assured that we’ll deliver the best possible products and services for both business and consumers.
The National Australia Bank Group is an international financial services group that provides a comprehensive range of financial products and services.
National Australia Bank operates in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom.
Government Institutions;