A new Geebung warehouse has brought Pultron Composites’ Australian operations into the local industrial precinct, with staff working from the site, products stocked for Queensland projects and planning underway for future local manufacturing.
New Operation Takes Shape in Geebung
The North Brisbane facility gives Pultron an operating presence in Geebung as the New Zealand-based manufacturer expands its Australian operations.
For the local area, the immediate change is the establishment of an active warehouse within Geebung’s industrial precinct. Pultron has identified Sina and Alicia as two employees working from the Brisbane facility, where their work includes organising Mateenbar Mesh and helping keep the warehouse running.
The site is already stocked with Pultron’s Mateenbar range, including GFRP rebar, mesh and bends. Holding the products in Geebung is intended to improve supply efficiency for projects across Queensland and elsewhere in Australia.
Geebung Location Connects With Queensland Projects
Pultron selected the site partly for its access to Brisbane Airport, the Port of Brisbane and the M1 motorway, allowing products held in Geebung to be supplied to projects across Queensland and interstate.
The company opened the warehouse in response to growing demand for glass fibre-reinforced polymer, or GFRP, reinforcement across infrastructure, marine and construction sectors.
That places the Geebung facility within a supply chain serving projects where corrosion resistance is a consideration, particularly in environments exposed to salt, moisture or chemicals.
Pultron says its GFRP reinforcement does not corrode, is about four times lighter than steel and can have a design life of 100 years or more with minimal maintenance.
An estimate attributed to the Australasian Corrosion Association puts the annual cost of corrosion-related infrastructure repair and replacement in Australia at about $8 billion, with steel reinforcement failure inside concrete accounting for part of that cost.
Queensland already has a specification pathway for GFRP reinforcement through Transport and Main Roads’ MRTS271. Sunshine Coast Council has also adopted coastal durability requirements that include corrosion-free reinforcement in specified coastal, marine and tidal-zone applications.
Local Manufacturing Could Be Next Step
The Geebung warehouse currently provides Pultron with local stockholding and an operating base in North Brisbane, but the company has indicated that its presence could extend beyond warehousing.
Planning is underway to begin manufacturing locally in the future.
Pultron develops and manufactures glass fibre-reinforced polymer composites using the pultrusion process. The company traces its origins to Gisborne, New Zealand, where Peter Holdsworth built his first pultrusion machine in 1982 before Pultron Composites was established with Dame Bronwen Holdsworth.
For now, the Geebung facility remains the company’s local stock and operations base, with staff already working on site and preparations underway for a possible future manufacturing operation.
Published 15-September-2026
