Defence Capabilities

Our manufacturing facility team is located in a 6000m² head office with a warehouse in Brisbane, Queensland. Our comprehensive manufacturing solutions include:

• Horizontal tensile testing
• Vertical compression and tensile testing
• Paint facility
• Small to large, fabricated products
• Robotic welding
• Hardness testing
• Non-destructive testing – MPI, dye penetrant

Keeping all these areas in one location helps us deliver more cost-effective and practical solutions to defence engineering challenges.

Our specialities include:

• Lifting system design
• Product certification
• Load restraint design and service
• Materials handling solutions
• Major inspections, testing and commissioning

RUD’s expertise lies in designing innovative chain solutions that solve defence industry challenges. We combine optimum strength with reduced size and weight to create load restraint systems that are far superior to anything else on the market.

Our ICE Grade 120 offers a considerable 30% reduction in weight than Grade 80 hooks, using less material due to its light construction and easier handling. ICE Grade 120 possesses a 60% higher breaking force than Grade 80 chains and is extremely robust, tough and resilient to sharp and rough edges due to the chain's increased strength.

What this means is that an ICE lifting or lashing chain - no matter the nominal thickness - can replace a Grade 80 chain of the next-higher nominal thickness.

The reduction in weight of more than 30% is a major safety advantage.

Innovation and product development are important at RUD, being the first manufacturer globally to be approved for the Grade 120 chain.

RUD ICE Grade 120 Chain offers many advantages for defence industry needs, including:

• 30% reduction in weight than grade 80 chain
• Higher lifting capacity for easy and safe handling
• A flexible modular system that requires less transport space
• A unique RUD overload indicator that deforms before the lifting device becomes damaged
• Forged safety latches on each hook
• RUD shortening devices that do not reduce the working load limit (WLL)

The combination of TECDOS components and RUD round steel chain technology provides endless solutions to countless material handling challenges in applications where there is a requirement for rotation or slow movement with extremely high precision.

• In maritime environments, RUD TECDOS is installed in innovative drive systems and forms an ideal structure that can be used in harbour facilities, including gangways, deck equipment, shipyards or vessels.
• For plants and facilities where building infrastructure needs to change, RUD’s TECDOS drive and rotational systems for linear and rotating movement are an ideal application. Sliding roofs, doors and gates provide additional floor and height capacity suited for large production halls.
• TECDOS is an ideal solution where lifting and rotating equipment for final assembly is required. Rotational solutions such as the Toolmover provide an ergonomic and safe assembly solution.

RUD TECDOS round steel chain technology offers countless possibilities for lifting, rotating, and telescoping objects in the most difficult conditions and climates.