The Wagner family has been in business in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia since 1896 when John Henry Wagner first established the stone masonry business JH Wagner & Sons; which is still operating in Toowoomba to this day. John Henry Wagner’s grandson, Henry Wagner eventually acquired control of the family business and expanded it to include concreting and in 1989 formed a partnership with his sons Denis, Joe, Neill and John (pictured left to right). The business quickly expanded from one concrete plant to 19 within 20 years and a 1,100 strong workforce. Diversification further lead the business into pre-cast concrete, re-enforcing steel and eventually ground-breaking building products.
In 2002, Wagners Composite Fibre Technologies (CFT) was founded pioneering a unique pull-winding process of manufacturing Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) structural profiles for civil engineering projects and this quickly led to supplying infrastructure projects throughout the globe.
Wagners CFT is credited with manufacturing and installing the world’s first composite road bridge in a public road network and the first clip-on pedestrian walkway/cycleway onto an existing bridge (Chesterhope Bridge in New Zealand), and has played an integral role in maximising network security and resilience for electricity operators in Australia through the production of more than a million FRP electrical cross arms for utility poles.
The Wagner family also established Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport which was the first airport to be constructed in Australia in 50 years and was completed in 2016 in less than 20 months of construction.
The airport is currently only for domestic and freight use and does not have capacity to accept international travellers due to lack of customs and border control infrastructure. Built, owned and operated by the Wagner family, the airport is a regional and interstate passenger facility with major airlines and is a hub for export of regional produce to China via a weekly Boeing 747 service.
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