Our History
Since 1990, Primec has been the smart solution for heavy equipment repairs, maintenance, and onsite service solutions.
1990
Allan Haynes open Haynes Mechanical as a field service maintenance provider, with a fleet of service utes operating within the Western Australian mining sector.
Kalgoorlie workshop facility opens with a focus on light vehicles, trucks, cranes and small earthmoving equipment. Crane hire was also included in the range of services.
2000
Haynes Mechanical expands into a workshop facility in Glenella, Mackay, providing field maintenance and skilled service personnel to the Bowen Basin mining sector.
2003
With the coal industry booming, Haynes relocates to much larger workshop and office facility in Mackay’s premium industrial area, Paget, where it is still based today.
2014
Haynes Group is purchased by Sime Darby who provide significant investment in expanding technology, facilities and training of employees, including the introduction of an annual apprenticeship intake program.
2014 - 2017
Component rebuild workshop opens in Paget, delivering services such as rebuilds of transmissions, final drives, suspension components, steering arms, wheel ends, lateral links, pumps as well as repairs of valves and hydraulics. Also provided additional specialty services such as non-destructive testing.
Haynes Mechanical expands into much larger machinery maintenance servicing the demands of the mining industry. This enables services such overhauls, repairs and large component changeouts to be carried out on large earthmoving machinery.
Haynes expands into larger eight-bay workshop facility in Paget, increasing our workshop scale and capabilities.
2017
Haynes Mechanical undergoes brand refresh.
Haynes Mechanical creates apprenticeship program, supporting the development of new tradespeople in the Mackay region.
2022 onwards
After more than 30 years delivering high quality mechanical services throughout Australia, Haynes Mechanical undergoes an exciting new rebrand and changes its name to Primec, positioning the company to embrace new technology and partner with emerging industries as the landscape of the mechanical maintenance sector evolves.
Providing a broad range of services, offering in shop and in field services to our customers for over 30 years.
We work with our customers to ensure we understand their needs. We aim to maximise asset performance.
Our team approaches their work with an immense amount of pride and therefore, we take a huge amount of pride in them.
