Founded by Frank Winslow, the first of three generations of Winslow's seen at Richmond, the company began predominantly as a manufacturer of steel fabrications for buildings. However after purchasing a Materials Handling Manufacturer in 1961, this business began to manufacture Hydraulic Lifting equipment. This change was based on Frank's belief that he could develop these products into an extremely profitable business enterprise, he was correct. From this decision came the beginning of a transformation for Richmond Wheel and Castors, from a steel fabricator into a symbol of Australian Materials Handling.
In 1963, the Current Headquarters site in Clayton was purchased. Over the next 10 year period the Steel and Engineering businesses grew, with the chief feature being the growth of the Wheel and Castor component of the Business.
In 1972, the current CEO, Ray Winslow joined the business and focused on building up manufacturing capacity and product development.
By 1982, Wheels and Castors had become extremely successful and was the primary focus.
In 1987, Frank Winslow retired and during that year the whole of the Clayton site was taken over by the Wheel and Castor Business, which was now known as Richmond Wheel and Castors Co
1997, Marked the beginning of Richmond's expansion into the Australian market at such time the Sydney Branch was established with Warehousing and Sales facilities. This experience led us to believe that Branches needed to offer a much broader level of products than Wheels and Castors and that the vision was to be Australia's best "LiftnMove Store".
Since its early beginnings Richmond quickly became recognized for its strength in the market due to the depth and quality of our product ranges and flexibility and skill in solving special Materials Handling needs from design to manufacture. Richmond has thrived due to our commitment to our customers, our capacity to meet a wide variety of industry needs and also our ability to continually evolve our products to suit changing market needs and demands.
Whilst Richmond continues to build upon its skills in the specialised manufacturing market niches, our focus of improving and developing every facet of our business operations have led us to open branches in every Australian state as well as a branch in Auckland, New Zealand so as to expand our reach in the global manufacturing industry.
Looking to the future as we move from a celebrating our history of the past 50 years, as a forward thinking and active organisation Richmond will continue to look to the future for opportunities and build upon our strengths as a global manufacturing company in perpetual motion.
