Texcel specialises in providing managed environmental monitoring services and equipment to the Mining, Quarrying, Construction and Infrastructure sectors to ensure clients meet their compliance and environmental data collection objectives.
We are passionate and are keen to deliver exceptional service with unmatched outcomes while retaining a sense of humour and a zest for life.
Texcel’s expertise in this market has been developed through our 30+ years’ experience in the design and manufacture of vibration monitoring instrumentation.
Texcel was born out of innovation. We started operations in 1988 under the name Blastronics, where we were the first business to commercialise out of the University of Queensland, creating the BMX, the world’s first diagnostic blast monitor.
Technology improvements and industry demand saw the BMX morph into many other monitor types – the QMX born into the quarrying industry, the GPX developed for the energy sector, the µMX, one of the most robust pieces of blast monitoring instrumentation – our sales guru has literally run over it with his truck, without damaging it, on several occasions – the HMX created to monitor dynamic load testing on bridges, the ATM, the CTM and currently the ETM and GTM – systems and software that operate in a wide variety of real-world situations.
Texcel is a distillation of the expertise garnered from its forebears, including Blastronics and Infratech. The innovative “institution” created as a consequence of these businesses has fostered the careers of, and contributed numerous world class experts to, both the mining and infrastructure industries.
While our origins were in the blasting industry, over time Texcel moved into the wider market of vibration monitoring in the mining, quarrying, construction and infrastructure industries. In 2000, we changed our name from Blastronics to Texcel to reflect this evolution.
Blastronics Pty Ltd founded by Cameron McKenzie, Steve Hickey and Bruce McKenzie.
Source: The Australian, 8 September 1987.
Development of the BMX Blast Monitor – the world’s first diagnostic blast monitor
First Blastronics office opened in Brisbane suburb of Toowong
First BMXs sold to Golder who are still a client.
Creation of Australian Blasting Consultants Pty Ltd (ABC) to promote BMX applications as a consulting tool
Release of the QMX Quarry Monitor
Using the QMX at Mt Cootha
The BMX Monitor travels around the world
Creation of Australian Blasting Consultants WA
Merger of Blastronics and ABC
Creation of BLM Blastronics Canada in Sudbury, Ontario
Release of µMX Micro Monitor
Creation of Blastronics Environmental Services
Creation of Fugro Blastronics in Hong Kong
Creation of Infratech Systems & Services Pty Ltd for the development of bridge monitoring technologies
Awarded R&D grant to develop a bridge monitoring device.
Move to larger offices in the Brisbane suburb of West End
Release the HMX Bridge Health Monitor
Merger of Blastronics and Infratech
Change name from Blastronics to Texcel Pty Ltd
Creation of RTDynamics to investigate heavy vehicle dynamics
Release ATM Advanced Texcel Monitor
Release of CTM Compact Texcel Monitor
Release of ETM, GTM and TLink
We celebrate 20 years of Texcel!
ISEE is established in Australia by Bruce McKenzie and Mark Dean
Texcel relocate to Brisbane suburb of Northgate.
Re-launch of new Texcel logo and new website
The Texcel Team!
Today, while retaining our original development and manufacturing capabilities, Texcel has become predominantly a provider of managed environmental compliance services. These services cover not only vibration monitoring, but also other parameters such as noise, dust and weather monitoring. Our pride in the technical excellence, quality and consistency of our vibration monitoring equipment extends to the trusted equipment suppliers we use for the other environmental parameters we service.
