Local Crane Hire in Broke NSW

Located in the heart of Port Kembla on the East Coast of Australia, Illawarra Wire Ropes has been supplying wire rope and lifting solutions to industry since 1972. Whatever your wire rope and lifting requirements are - be they for engineering, construction, mining, transportation, domestic - Illawarra Wire Ropes is there to assist you with quick turnaround and reliable service.

We are 100% owned by Komatsu Forklift Australia Pty Ltd, which manufactures construction, mining and materials handling equipment in factories throughout the world. Komatsu Group consists of 147 Group Companies and employs over 46,000 people globally with net sales for the year ended March 31, 2013 of US$ 20 billion.

Brooks Hire commenced in 1979 when Doug Brooks purchased two u/s compressors on bankcard. In 1982 Doug purchased the first piece of mobile plant an 8 tonne JEC crane, by tender, which Doug drove to Eneabba. At the time of buying the crane, Doug was operating the business from a shed at Eneabba working 18 hour days and living 5 days a week in a humpy at the back of a shed.