About
Who are we?
Southern Spreaders is a family owned business based in Ballarat, Victoria founded in 2004.
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Producing truck spreaders and bulk product handling trailers the businesses focus is the spreading contractor. Southern Spreaders strive to offer a complete solution to compliment your ground spreading business.
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In addition to offering solutions for the ground spreading contractor, Southern Spreaders is also the parent company of Hansa Precision Equipment, one of the largest quality trailer and linkage spreader manufacturers in Australia.
Where did we come from?
Southern Spreaders was founded off the back of the families successful spreading contracting business in Circular Head, Tasmania.
With the requirement in the business to have reliable gear founder Jeff started out building his own equipment in a small workshop in Smithton, Tasmania.
Word soon spread and Jeff had orders from all over Australia and hence Southern Spreaders was founded.
With the piece of water known as the Bass Straight a massive barrier when selling to mainland Australia the family moved the business to Victoria, the businesses headquarters are now in Ballarat where everything from design, through to final assembly and product support via our parts distribution centre.
Where are we going?
With ideas and concepts and no end of R&D always in the pipeline Southern Spreaders continues to strive to produce simple, reliable and the most technically advanced spreader available on the market when it comes to features and productivity, in short we are driven to continue to develop and build world class spreaders right here in regional Australia.
At Southern Spreaders, we don’t just provide a product, we provide a service.
We are driven by four core values
Backup & Support
Uncompromising
Quality & Reliability
Innovation
