Manufacturing Magazine June 2015 | Page 80

PLANTMINER
Michael Trusler - winner of Mining Australia ’ s Young Achiever of the Year

Our team is our competitive advantage .

This is the ideology behind PlantMiner — an online portal that aims to save time and money for procurement officers , estimators and project managers across Australia when hiring plant equipment .
“ We are Australia ’ s largest equipment hire market place , we ’ ve got the most equipment hire companies and the most individual items of equipment listed in one place ,” said Michael Trusler , CEO of the company , in a recent interview . “ At our portal , clients can hire
everything from portable toilets , generators , and air compressors , right up to the largest graders , dozers and dump trucks .”
Being an all-encompassing onestop shop is the most important asset to PlantMiner ’ s success .
A competitive advantage In Australia , there was a real need for a service that solved the issue of saving the time it took to procure plant and equipment hire quotes .
“ The business has flourished because of that but also because we deliver a real return on investments for our clients ,” said Trusler . “ They ’ re
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