The next generation of Versatile Technology gauges sporting our brand-new V3 system have launched! Enjoy more measurement capabilities and faster processing POWER. Featuring a larger 19” LCD Capacitive Touch Screen with a re-imagined user-friendly interface featuring dark and light themes.
Now you can have the best of both worlds, with the most advanced semi-automatic front end gauge on the market!
Our EH179A Multisize Semi-Automatic Front End Gauge can test any body size and height beverage can or cup without stopping or changeover.
To our valued customers around the world.
As you are aware the current Corona Virus, also known as COVID-19, is affecting international travel due to closed international borders and travel bans.
Our automatic beverage can gauges are known for their classic L-shape configuration. To live up to our name, our gauges can now be ordered with an in-line conveyor to suit different layout requirements.
Our superstar Brittany Melbourne has been training for the Olympic Skeet for the past 9 months. On the 12th to 18th January 2020 she travelled to Newcastle NSW to compete in two of the four trial events for her spot in the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, with the tough conditions and some nerves that kicked in, she didn’t go as well hoped. Later next month she will compete in final two deciding events.
We wish her all the best, but no matter the outcome, she’s still a superstar in our eyes!
What started off as a chat between a couple of work colleagues, ended up as a whole workplace movement! Versatile Technology is participating in the Steptember Challenge to help raise funds for Cerebral Palsy.
On Sunday 9th June 2019 our European agent Tim Bulman married his beautiful wife Sarah by Lake Windermere.
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Lang Dean. Lang would travel to Versatile to meet the team and customers from around the globe. We enjoyed his jokes, lunch dates and good vibes!
Rest in peace Lang!
From all at Versatile Technology.
SpecMetrix and Versatile Technology’s ACS-T34 Automatic Coating Thickness Gauge is nominated for Can Tech’s The Grand Tour Global Supplier Awards! The ACS-T34 Auto Coating Thickness Gauge combines two of the world’s leading technology into one extraordinary system.
By Celeste Tralli
Brad Jensen and I jetted off to Bangkok, Thailand for the annual Asia Can Tech conference. The event was held at the lavish Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers. Brad had attended this event a couple of years ago but for me, this was my very first time.
The world’s leading Beverage & Buckle Vent Gauge just got better with the new Rock UnRock Module
A group of us from Versatile Technology had a fantastic outing when we visited Visy’s Beverage Can Plant in Clayton, Australia in August this year.
It takes a crew to build our gauges! From the very first design phase, right down to packing the gauge for transport to it’s new home somewhere around the globe.
Asia Can Tech we’re coming!!
With just over 2 weeks to go, we will attend Asia Can Tech in Bangkok, Thailand. We will have our table top setup with information on our latest developments – such as our
Our world class fitter and turner- Ms. Brittany Cole recently participated in the 39th FITASC International Sporting Clays World Championship in Galgamácsa, Hungary.
Metpack was just how I remembered it when I attended my first show in 2014.
It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Steve Roberts, after a severe illness. Steve was Versatile Technology’s resident graphics designer and website guru.
After a short xmas break we’ve returned to a mountain of machines to be shipped all around the world.
If you’re in Melbourne on the weekend of October 15 and 16 then you could be in for a treat. Experience raw V12 power in the flesh as Gerard cranks up his world famous 1/5 scale Tiger Tank 141 at the Melbourne Model Engineering Exhibition at Rowville Secondary College.
Long gone are the days when the fields of engineering and manufacturing were considered a man’s domain in Australia.
At Versatile Technology we are changing the game again with a single gauge that automatically tests dome depth, wall thickness and height for both cans and cups on the fly.
With gauges in 42 countries around the world we are lucky enough to make a lot of friends. Events like Cannex Fillex in Denver is an excellent opportunity to catch up with them all in one place.
Don MacGavin of Anheuser-Busch InBev in St Louis Missouri, recently visited Versatile Technology HQ in Melbourne to review production of automated equipment that is destined for installation in several of their U.S. plants.
Recently,we were honoured at Versatile Technology’s HQ in Melbourne with a visit by Mr and Mrs Manfred Kuhnke from Berlin.
Versatile Technology has been featured in an article in the January edition of Silicon Chip magazine.
Silicon Chip is the premier monthly magazine in Australia for all things electronic and technological. Ross Tester, their technical journalist, visited VT headquarters in Melbourne for a full ‘bells and whistles’ tour of our factory.
A momentous celebration was held at Versatile Technology HQ on Saturday to mark yet another milestone as our illustrious leader turned 60.
Well the news is out that production is about to commence at the new Helvetia Packaging AG beverage can plant at Saarlouis in Germany.
All over the world economic gains and environmental sustainability goals continue to be hot topics in the packaging industry. Down-gauging to use less material while still maintaining the performance of beverage cans is one solution to meeting these challenges. Today’s beverage can weighs as much as 40% less than it did forty years ago*.
Yes. Believe it or not, we are now even more versatile than we were before.
At Versatile Technology we often find that we’re continually restricted by a finite amount of space as production demands increase.
So we doubled that space.
Over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, The Victorian Rovers hold their annual Mudbash at Mafeking Rover Park near Yea in central Victoria. A gruelling event, where thirty five crews from all over the state come together to get down and dirty by pitting their toughest machines against one another.
Recently, it was our privilege to have His Excellency, The Governor of Victoria, The Hon. Alex Chernov AC QC visit us at Versatile Technology’s headquarters in Melbourne.
If you make beverage ends don’t leave Cannex until you see the new Versatile Tab Tracer in action.
Versatile Technology have been recognised at home for outstanding achievements abroad.
Our own Gerard Dean was summoned to Government House recently to collect the 2014 Governor of Victoria’s Export Award for Small Business.
Versatile Technology’s Customer Support and Sales Manager in Europe is taking on a solo bike challenge. Mr. Tim Bulman will cycle from his home in Messingham N. Lincs to Silsden, W. Yorkshire, and back again – a total of 180 miles.
The triennial event Metpack, has stamped the World’s Metal Packaging Industry once again. Metpack in 2014 was anticipated to be a bigger show than ever before and naturally it came through.
After winning the gold medal at London’s prestigious ‘Model Engineer Exhibition’ and landing on the front cover of their magazine, it is no surprise that the Wimmera Tiger was invited to stay at the Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster.
It’s been a great week for all the Versatile Technology crew at Metpack 2014 but we’re on the home straight now with only a few hours remaining. As you can see, the stand came up a treat and was greatly received by all those who visited.
Gerard, Jean, Chloe and Tim travelled to Essen in Germany this week for Metpack 2014 and have learned that they’re less than 16430 kilometres from their home in Melbourne. (Practically around the corner.)
Gerard Dean recently caught up with Walter, our local Festo representative. Both avid model builders, Gerard was lucky enough to catch a glance of Walter’s custom diorama, featuring a Games Workshop Eldar Grav Tank, which had been converted by Walter. Walter’s other work in scratch built models includes a detailed diorama of The Crow with functional lighting.
Versatile has recently been flooded… with orders for our Automatic Gauges. The factory is now filled with gauges to be assembled for customers, both new and long standing, opting for Versatile’s superior Automatic Gauges. Luckily, the experienced crew at Versatile have recently been augmented with some skilled additions to ensure the team is more than capable of handling the increased workload.
Versatile are extremely proud to be leading the way with these new machines, and welcome their new customers. Despite their destinations being in multiple locations – it’s clear that the choice for these new orders was Automatic.
Australia Day of 2014 saw a large group of motorcyclists from Versatile tackle the roads together. Starting in Eltham, we proceeded toward King Lake and Healesville before stopping for food. A tough section of gravel road served a few challenges, but the group was led by a number of experienced riders and stuck together quite well. A short stop at Mt Donna Buang provided the scene for a foot race between three party members, as they attempted to prove fastest to the top of the watch tower present.
Australia is famous for its fantastic beaches, the Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and of course cutting edge can gauges. But there is also a dark side to the continent – deadly animals.
Our Western Taipan is the world’s most deadly snake, the Funnel Web spider is in the top 2, the White Pointer shark regularly feasts on surfers on Western Australian beaches and the cute little Blue Ringed octopus will finish you off in less than a minute.
Our super sales engineer Ms Clodagh Monahan, after 9 short months, has made the move to our esteemed opposition, TRAC Measurement in the UK.
If you’re attending Euro CanTech, do drop by our table top and have a chat with our European agent – Tim Bulman
Having recently added the final piece to our fleet of automatic gauges, Cannex presented itself as the perfect launch pad for the all-important American market. Following a very successful Cannex show in China in 2012, we expected big crowds and designed a stand to match our expectations.
Unfortunately for us and many other exhibitors; we threw a great party but nobody came. Feelings of anxiety were palpable when mid-way through the second day, the walkways remained barren. The only lone rangers were bored exhibitors.
Gerard, Brad and Clodagh are all at Cannex 2013.
Versatile Technology is at Stand 551 in Building A of the Georgia World Congress Center, so please come along and say hello to all of us. You’ll find us just across the way from the Gold Lounge (well, these conferences are thirsty work!).