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TORISHIMAAUSTRALIA
The Torishima brand is built on reliability,
flexibility and customer satisfaction. The
company’s passion is to ensure all clients
receive the very best service, response
time and cost benefit. With a highly
skilled engineering team who understand
process requirements, the company
can provide products and services
suited to clients’ exact requirements.
The Torishima research and
development team in Japan employs
30
engineers, seven of whom have
PhDs, and are able to design pumping
equipment to be the most efficient
pumps in the world.
They are global leaders in the
suppression of cavitation, which
results in improved suction
conditions and efficient operation.
Torishima’s goal is to become the
most reputable pumping partner in
the transfer of liquids.
Torishima Australia covers Australia,
New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Being a new player in this region,
it anticipates working with companies
like Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Hancock
Prospecting as well as consulting
houses such as Calibre Global,
Lycopodium Minerals, Sedgman
and GR Engineering Services.
Torishima is a pump manufacturer
founded in 1919 in Osaka, Japan.
Employing in excess of 2,000 personnel
globally, Torishima supplies centrifugal
pumps to a broad range of applications
and is recognised as one of the most
reliable market leaders in the world
with extensive experience and
know-how in pumping technology.
Torishima Australia design,
manufacture, supply, install and
commission centrifugal water
solution and slurry pumps to the
energy, mining and resources sector.
Tony Robins is a Director of Torishima Australia. As such, Tony’s role is to identify and increase Toshima’s
brand and market share of the pumping business in WA’s resource sector.
Tony has a comprehensive understanding of WA’s mining market and process engineering, as well as a
strong network of contacts from working for 35 years in the pumping industry. This, together with his passion
for the Torishima’s wide range of products, makes for a good fit between Tony and the company he directs.
Tony places a great deal of importance on inspiring people to achieve and be committed to a corporate vision.
As Tony says, “People leave managers, not companies”.
Tony has been a member of the WA Mining Club for approximately six years, with two organisations.
He values the opportunity to maintain his network of industry contacts, and says his attendance at the
various Club lunches and events “makes networking a dream”.
Most admired business leader:
Karl Schlecht, Chairman of Putzmeister
Likes doing away from work:
Spending time with family, playing golf
Future goals:
Building Torishima into a market leader in Australia
Preferred dinner guest:
Gina Reinhardt
Meet WAMC Member – Tony Robins
Contact:
Torishima Australia
T: 08 9397 2239
E:
tony.robins@torishima.com.au
www.torishima.co.jp/en
The Torishima Group manufacture centrifugal pumps and produce the
world’s largest pumps, capable of transferring water at 58m
3
/
second.
The Group has worldwide contracts for transferring liquid using centrifugal pumps.
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