Stainless, Titanium & Nickel Plate
FFF Australia is the regional SANDMEYER Steel distributor for Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
SANDMEYER Steel have North America’s largest single site inventory of stainless steel and nickel alloy plate and stocks over 18 million pounds (9,000 tons) in 38 different grades.
Their inventory includes non-standard and other 34 thicknesses from .1875” (4.8mm) to 6.0” (152.4mm) in stainless steel plate, as well as several different width options to maximise plate yields.
If you need stainless steel and nickel alloy plate products, we are your one-stop-shop.
Product Specialists
PETER
DAVE
EDDY
TIM
NAWEED
PETER
GREG
Sales Manager-East Coast
PETER
Peter is a Mechanical Engineer with 25 years’ experience in the manufacturing and fabrication industries including 10 years in Materials Procurement Management. He has a wide range of direct experience in the metals industry working in forge shops, high volume manufacturing and pressure vessel fabrication.
Peter is very familiar with oil & gas and mining industry quality requirements. He has been with FFF for more than 5 years and oversees the Australian East Coast region assisting the rest of the East Coast team.
Managing Director
DAVE
Dave is the product of a lifetime supporting the engineering, mining and materials handling industries. He is an engineering professional with more than 15 years senior and executive management experience and leads the FFF team out of Perth, Western Australia.
Dave upholds the FFF culture that was founded more than 20 years ago on strong family values, ideals, morals and standards.
Dave describes his job as the “servant leader” who supports the team so that they can deliver what you, the customer expects, each time and that your relationship with FFF is both long and fruitful.
Manager-China Operations
EDDY
Eddy majored in International Business and joined the FFF Team in 2009 after spending 3 years at a steel mill and another year in the lab doing materials testing. Eddy has a passion for working with our supply partners as we manage their export efforts, communications and the promotion of their manufacturing capabilities. With the support of our supply partners, Eddy facilitates the quality inspection of products during manufacture and prior to delivery.
Eddy has experience with API auditing and guides the development journey of our suppliers as they improve their quality monitoring and control systems.
Director
TIM
Tim has been around FFF since day 1 in 1998, in these early days as a high school student helping out during school holidays and throughout university. After completing his Bachelor of Commerce and Business Law degree from UWA, he worked for the International Accounting firm Grant Thornton, where he completed his Chartered Accountant qualification.
He then joined FFF in 2006 in a full-time sales role and has worked every part of the business from sales, finance, logistics, procurement, and quality including the successful implementation of ISO 9001 for the company for the first time, through to management. This included opening up sales offices around the country as well as across borders into New Zealand, South Africa and Indonesia.
He has also spent extensive time in China and throughout Asia qualifying and managing FFF’s partner suppliers over a 10 year period replicating FFF’s foundation European supply chain into Asia and having expanded it to meet customer demand.
Business Development Manager
NAWEED
Naweed is an engineering professional with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Post Graduate Degree in Oil & Gas Engineering. Naweed is currently undertaking an MBA to complement his 12 years’ technical sales, projects and global procurement experience in the oil & gas, mining and industrial sectors.
With significant exposure to manufacturing and sales projects across the Asia Pacific region, Naweed’s focus is on exceeding customer expectations through technical and business excellence, while maintaining effective global supply partner relationships.
Technical Sales - Pressure Equipment
PETER
Peter Krempin is an accomplished professional with over 32 years’ experience in manufacturing production, fabrication, supervision, estimation and procurement of large capital Pressure/Process Equipment. He has devoted a lifetime of experience and technical skills helping Australian corporations across multiple industries, including Aerospace, Marine, Oil and Gas, Mining, Process and Heavy Fabrication industries. Peter’s experience and delivery focus adds significant depth to our Process/Pressure Equipment category.
Sales Manager - Pressure Equipment
GREG
Greg joined the FFF Team in 2019, bringing a wealth of experience from being involved in the fabrication of thousands of heat exchangers and pressure vessels over his 35-year career to date. Greg has amassed an in-depth knowledge of vessel manufacture using various construction materials including carbon and low alloy steel, stainless steel, high nickel alloys, copper nickel alloys, duplex steel and titanium during his time with several of Australia’s highly respected Eastern states manufacturers.
Greg’s expertise soon took him beyond the Australian market into Malaysia, where he directly led, trained and developed in-house personnel for the manufacture, repair and maintenance of heat exchangers, pressure vessels; both onshore and offshore.
Returning to Australia, Greg continued to sell, design and manufacture pressure vessels and heat exchangers for renowned Australian vessel manufacturers, for domestic and Asia Pacific customers in the oil & gas, petrochemical, process, power and sugar industries.
As a key specialist for FFF, Greg’s focus is to drive our process equipment categories and provide Australian companies access to our high quality global supply partners.
