Blackbutt Sand & Gravel is a Queensland family owned and operated business that carries out civil construction and plant hire operations throughout the state. Blackbutt Sand & Gravel is a Queensland family owned and operated business that carries out civil construction and plant hire operations throughout the state. Blackbutt Sand & Gravels "Hands On" and indivdualised approach provides a unique and diverse service to the needs of our clients. We employ and purchase locally. Fostering relationships with clients, communtities and staff. Rapid mobilisation capability and independence, working anywhere the job takes us. Under our Quality Assurance Management Plan, Blackbutt Sand & Gravel is committed to providing excellent results in all areas of Civil Construction. This includes each and every aspect from safety, construction and environmental requirements through to the end user.

Emerald Air Starters & Equipment (EASE) is an Australian owned, locally operated business that has been trading for over 25 years in Central Queensland. Located in the heart of the Bowen Basin EASE focus on customer service and providing innovative solutions to the mining, agriculture, contractor and mine services industries. EASE sell and service quality brands such as; Ingersoll Rand, Austart, Airmac, FS Curtis, Rambor, PPK Firefly, Atlas Copco, ITM & Toku. The Dowdens Group and Emerald Air Starters & Equipment are also Queensland's sole distributor of WILDEN. With our end to end life of the product approach to pneumatically operated equipment EASE is a company that specialises in increasing the reliability and run time of your assets, in turn reducing down time and increasing your business profitability. In addition to the servicing of your pneumatic equipment in our fully operational workshop EASE offers a full range of products in our retail store to not only support the equipment we service but ensure you have everything you need to get the job done. EASE specialise in the sales, service and repair of all pneumatically operated equipment, hydraulic tools and pumps for the mining, agricultural and industrial markets. A leading Emerald air tool repairer, EASE stocks a vast range of spare parts for sales, servicing and maintenance. EASE operates Queensland's ONLY Rambor Test Bench for Roof Bolters - the Rambor Test Bench can check the leg compression up to 4m in length and also the rotation tension. With each test customers receive a detailed report indicating their Roof Bolters operating speed, torque, leg thrust, air pressure, air flow, total run time and operating noise. In addition to the Roof Bolter test bench we are the ONLY business in Queensland with an Austart Air Starter test bench. This is 1 of only 5 test benches globally which can test the operating performance of a new or repaired starter. This has a clear advantage where by EASE can guarantee the performance of your starter motors prior to fitting to your equipment. EASE supplies a large range of air starter motors, underground mining tools and equipment, air operated diaphragm pumps, air starter and impact gun test benches, hand-held air tools, compressors and pneumatic accessories. EASE can provide sales and speciality services of all air operated equipment from a basic hand-held air toll through to roof bolters and rib drills. As a proud member of the Industrial Supply Group (I.S.G), EASE has access to an extensive range of industrial products at very competitive prices, with all savings being passed onto our customers!