FINK ENGINEERING PTY LTD - ABOUT US

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 manufacturer's for the supply of the components that form our state-of-the-art hyperbaric chamber systems. One of the key components to Fink Engineering's latest range of Rectangular Hyperbaric Medical Treatment facilities is the pressure vessel which we have licensed W.E. Smith Hudson of Coffs Harbour (an ASME 'U' Stamp accredited facility) to manufacture to our designs. This synergetic combination has enabled Fink Engineering to remain small and flexible whilst providing W.E.S.H. with a new set of production challenges. Additionally, 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 and more recently our first order from Toronto, Canada.

The following summarises the development of our new range of Rectangular Hyperbaric facilities:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, Australia - our first rectangular hyperbaric chamber design operational since August 1994.
• Vaucluse Hospital in Melbourne, Australia - SL8 operation since Feb 1998
• Wesley Hospital in Brisbane, Australia - TL12 operational since August 1998
• Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia - TL14 operational since Feb 1999
• Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand - DL8 operational since September 2000
• Singapore Airlines, Singapore - Altitude Chamber operational since June 2001
• Townsville Hospital in Townsville, Australia - TL20 operational since August 2001
• Royal Brisbane Hospital in Brisbane Australia - TL20 currently being completed
• And the Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Canada - DL12 currently under construction.

• 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

Fink Engineering has a fully equipped CAD facility at it's factory in Cheltenham utilising Unigraphics Solid Modelling & Solid Edge, Autocad, Mathcad, MSC Nastran and a variety of additional computer aided engineering programs and provides design and drafting services to AS1100, Department of Defence DEF (AUST) 5085A and U.S. Mil-T-31000 level 2 and 3. Fink Engineering also provides an operation and maintenance manual writing capability.

Fink Engineering continues to be actively engaged in the hyperbaric community and are members of the Australian Hyperbaric Technicians and Nurses Association, The Australian Institute of Engineers, The Association of Diving Contractors (USA), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Fink Engineering were one of the members of the SF-046 committee that developed the new Australian Standard AS1774.1 Work in Compressed Air and Hyperbaric Facilities.