Aeronaut AutomationAutomated Cutters

Aeronaut Automation is an Australian company specialising in the manufacture of wide span flatbed plotter cutters. Our factory is situated in Terrey Hills, in a small industrial area in this otherwise residential suburb on Sydneys northern peninsular. The factory is about 25 minutes from Sydneys CBD and 7 minutes from the beach. Unlike other companies manufacturing automated cutters, Aeronaut began as sailmakers… Aeronaut Sails, specialising in sails for round the world, single and shorted handed boats and fast multihulls. We bought a basic pen plotter in 1987 and soon found that the software available would design products like sails, but not basic things like boom covers, bags and biminis, so we set about developing our own. The change from Aeronaut sails to Aeronaut Automation came about when another sailmaker said that he wanted to buy a cutter and he wanted us to make it for him. After selling six cutters in five weeks to various marine businesses we decided that was where the future lay for Aeronaut. This makes our focus quite different to other manufacturers. We build the machinery we would like to own. As a result, the cutters we make are high performance machines but heavier duty than almost all of our competitor's products. This has given our machines a reputation for long life and reliability. In fact, every machine we have ever made is still running and our cutters regularly replace worn out or inaccurate machines made by other manufacturers.