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Fink Engineering Office
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| Fink Engineering Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Fink International) was established in Victoria, Australia in 1987 to provide engineering design and consultancy to the offshore oil and diving industries. Its founder and Managing Director is a transplanted Californian who has spent his entire career in the offshore diving equipment and more recently the hyperbaric medical fields. He has recruited a small dynamic professional team to innovate, design and construct some of the world's finest hyperbaric equipment. Fink Engineering's philosophy has been to keep innovation and design in house so that it can respond readily to changing technologies whilst relying on synergetic relationships with key manufacturers for the supply of the components that form our state-of-the-art hyperbaric chamber systems. The close association Fink Engineering has developed with Dr. Ian Millar and his team at the Alfred
Hospital in Melbourne, Dr. David Griffith and his team
in Townsville,
and the members of the Hyperbaric
Technicians and Nurses Association in Australia has proven invaluable in terms of vital user-friendly design input. The result of this approach is that we have now developed a world class set of Rectangular Hyperbaric Chamber Systems that are just beginning to be appreciated overseas as evidenced by systems shipped to New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and our recently completed projects in the USA. |
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The following
summarises the development of our new range of Rectangular Hyperbaric
facilities:
- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia - our first
rectangular hyperbaric chamber design operational since August
1994.
- Vaucluse Hospital, Melbourne, Australia - SL8 operation since
Feb 1998
- Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, Australia - TL12 operational
since August 1998
- Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia - TL14 operational
since Feb 1999
- Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand - DL8 operational
since September 2000
- Singapore
Airlines, Singapore -
Altitude Chamber operational since June 2001
- Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Australia - TL20 operational since August 2001
- Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Brisbane Australia - TL20 completed 2004
- Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada - operational since 2005
- Wilford Hall Medical Centre, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas USA - DL8 operational since 2008
- Intermountain Medical Centre, Salt Lake City, Utah USA - DL8 operational since 2008
- Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minnesota USA - TL24 operational since 2008
- Aurora Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA - TL24 operational since 2009
- Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney , Australia - QL30 Currently under construction
- SLEQ3 equine hyperbaric facility, UK & UAE - Qty 10 since 2003
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Fink
Engineering has also been pivotal in the design and development of
the U.S. Navy's Transportable Recompression Chamber System which won
the Australian design Award in 1996. In addition Fink Engineering
has continued to design and build for the U.S. Navy, the latest project
being for the new Standard Navy Double Lock (SNDL) for which we developed
a new low profile life support console design and a unique SNDL Medical
lock. The following indicates our historical involvement in a number
in innovative projects including:
- The design
and development of the U.S Navy's Transportable Recompression
Chamber System
- The design
for the RAN's Transportable Recompression Chamber system
- Containerised
Recompression Chamber Systems for S.A. and N.S.W. Police Forces
- The Royal
Adelaide Hospital's rectangular Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chamber
- The Australian
Institute of Sports Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Chamber
- Fraser Diving
International's 4 man and 6 man 300 msw Saturation Diving Systems
- Fraser Diving
International's 4 man recompression chamber (design & supply)
- Oceaneering
Australia's 300 msw saturation system at Berry's Beach
- Design of
several bounce diving and open bottom bell systems
- The Australian
Submarine Corporation for their Transfer Under Pressure chamber
to be utilised for submariner rescue including all of the associated
life support equipment
- The U.S.
Navy for their proposed Fly Away 300 msw Saturation Diving System
- Alpha Research
for their underwater swimmer delivery vehicle for the RAN
- Training
and equipment evaluation for the Royal Singapore Navy.
- Design of
the RCC and certification assistance for the Australian Minehunter
Diving Systems
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Fink Engineering transferred its operations from Melbourne to a custom built factory located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland in late 2006. The new premises were designed and built specifically for the construction, assembly and testing of our new range of Rectangular Hyperbaric systems and features 1100 Sq m of covered factory space with reinforced epoxy impregnated concrete flooring capable of supporting the skate loading required for moving our large chambers within its confines. The 6m wide x 5m high roller door allows easy access for even our largest chambers and this feature combined with a spacious forecourt provides ample room for the requisite craneage necessary for lifting our equipment on and off various modes of transport.
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A custom built clean room enables the cleaning of parts for oxygen and enriched oxygen service in accordance with a variety of cleaning procedures and is approved for meeting the requirements of Mil D 1330. An electronics assembly area is also available for the assembly and testing of our new range of electronic control systems.
Clean compressed air meeting the Australian Standard AS1586 for Breathing Air is available on site for the testing and operation of our hyperbaric equipment.
The 200 Sq m of air conditioned office space provides ample room for design activity and houses the latest in state of the art computer systems and software necessary for producing our designs to meet the quality standards that we have in place including AS9001-2000 and ISO 13485-2003.
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| Our premises are located at 30 Premier Circuit in Warana, Queensland, Australia in a new industrial estate with easy access to the A70 Motorway which links with the Sunshine Coast directly to Brisbane which is an hour away. Alternatively, we are 20 minutes from the Sunshine Coast Airport (Maroochydore) which has daily flights to most Australian capital cities. |
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