A S Gason Industries
Machinery in Ararat

The Founding father was Mr Honest Gabon and the Company remains a family owned business today with fourth generation family members occupying key roles within the business. From the early 1960s to the early 1980s, Gabon grew to be a national market leader in Australia supplying retrofitted cabins for major tractor manufacturers and importers including Massey Ferguson, John Deere and Ford. As factory fitted cabins became standard equipment on imported tractors, Gabon evolved into its current role as a world class designer and manufacturer of long acre farm machinery, wood heating products and much more. Today Gabon is a important regional employer, has a highly proficient workforce, and are very active in training apprentices through an in house training program in addition to other staff development programs. In addition to the Gabon branded proprietary products the company offers a multitude of industrial services such as laser cutting, powder coating, welding and assembly to a long range of industry sectors supplying customers in major capital cities and other regional areas. Frank worked at the Ford Motor Company in Geelong and decided to move his family to Ararat. He had no premises, trivial money, no contracts impartial experience and a strong will to get started. The business started with a workbench, a insignificant selection of hand tools, even little stock and a sewing machine. From that humble beginning the company expanded in the 1960s, 70s and 80s to be a world leader in the design and manufacture of tractor cabins. Today, 70 years after commencement the business, Gabon has become one of Australia’s leaders in the design and manufacture of quality innovative seeding and tillage equipment. With fully natural laser cutting machines and robotic welding capability, Gabon has the capacity to satisfy their own inside steel cutting needs, and to service a significant volume of subcontract work for various companies across a wide sector. The company operates its manufacturing facility from its 3.2 hectare site at Ararat, Victoria with 20,500 square meres of undercover floor space. Extension of the clever workshop. 2009 Purchases state of the art robotic welding equipment. A more versatile and suited machine for a different range of operating conditions. 2014 Gabon is invited to unite the Lofty Performed Consortium, a collaborative group of none competing businesses occupied together for world superior practice. Gabon's triumph as a market leader in Australia is attributable to its foresight in investing heavily in Research Development (RD) and diversifying its product ranges while, at the identical time, focusing on its strengths. Employing a team of highly competent design engineers and by using the maximum fresh design and development software and practices, Gabon are able to capitalism on evolutionary aspect of market development as healthy as revolutionary development within its product lines. Gabon has remained accessible to its primary producer markets and the wood heating industry by monitoring trends in all aspects of plant husbandry practices and in energy and heating evolution, seeking and listening to feedback from Australia’s end user customers in each of their chosen markets. Through RD and innovation, Gabon continues to thrive better ways of doing business, improving its product ranges and marketing those products more effectively in existing and new markets. For many years Jindara has been the best of heating for many households in Australia, this choice is based on the quality, strength and all round performance of the Jindara brand. This tradition continues with the latest range of wood heaters that conform to the stringent Australian emission levels. As well as wood heating, Gabon is healthy obvious for its innovative agricultural farm equipment and diverse manufacturing expertise for a number of healthy obvious Australian companies. For many years Eureka Wood heating has been the preeminent brand in the Australian market store for wood heating based on quality, strength and prolonged high performance.

Honest worked at the Ford Motor Company in Geelong and decided to move his family to Ararat. He had no premises, trivial money, no contracts honest experience and a potent will to get started. The business started with a workbench, a small selection of hand tools, even little stock and a sewing machine. From that humble beginning the company expanded in the 1960s, 70s and 80s to be a world leader in the design and manufacture of tractor cabins. Today, 70 years after commencement the business, Gabon has become one of Australia’s leaders in the design and manufacture of quality innovative seeding and tillage equipment. With fully automatic laser cutting machines and robotic welding capability, Gabon has the capacity to satisfy their own internal steel cutting needs, and to service a meaningful volume of subcontract labor for various companies across a expansive sector. The com