Portfolio

    Businesses built to last.
    Held forever.

    Spark owns and operates two industrial businesses from a manufacturing site in Heidelberg West, Melbourne. They are the foundation of the group and the working example of what Spark ownership means.

    2Operating businesses
    Heidelberg WestMelbourne
    Since 2023Owned by Spark
    Spark Equity Company #01

    Ultralift Australia

    Motorised lift mechanisms

    Ultralift designs and manufactures motorised TV lift mechanisms and anti-ligature enclosures for residential, commercial and healthcare installations. Customers are AV integrators, architects, builders and health providers across Australia and in export markets. Everything is designed and made in Heidelberg West.

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    Heidelberg West, VICLocation
    Lift mechanisms and anti-ligature enclosuresProducts
    National + exportReach
    AV, architecture, healthMarkets
    Ultralift Australia
    Westberg Sheetmetal
    Spark Equity Company #02

    Westberg Sheetmetal

    Precision sheet metal fabrication

    Westberg is a precision sheet metal fabricator serving builders, engineers and OEMs, and the manufacturer of the EasyShroud architectural shroud range. Capabilities include laser cutting, CNC folding, welding, powder coating and assembly.

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    Heidelberg West, VICLocation
    Laser cutting, folding, welding, powder coatingCapabilities
    EasyShroudOwn product range
    Builders, engineers, OEMsCustomers
    What Spark has done at Heidelberg

    Ownership in practice.

    Real investment is a better argument than a list of capabilities. Since taking ownership, Spark has:

    • 01Invested in new laser cutting and folding capacity to lift throughput and bring work in-house
    • 02Built an in-house powder coating plant so finishing is controlled on site
    • 03Revived robot welding to take repetitive welding off skilled tradespeople
    • 04Built a production throughput system that gives the floor a daily plan and management a daily number
    • 05Rebuilt the sales teams of both businesses and restructured production management under a single Production Manager
    • 06Kept both businesses trading under their own names, with their own customers and their own accountability

    Growing the group. Deliberately.

    We add a business when we can be a genuine permanent owner of what its founder built, and when it makes the group stronger. That means substantial businesses that can stand on their own inside the group, and specialist bolt-ons that fit alongside what we already own. We take our time, and we do not buy for the sake of buying.

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