CAQA Nexus Automotive Manufacturing
CAQA Nexus Automotive Manufacturing designs and builds truck bodies, semi-trailers and bus bodies on customer supplied and dealer supplied chassis, and manufactures the component kits that go into them. The product range covers steel and aluminium tipper bodies, pantech and refrigerated van bodies, curtainsiders, flat top and drop deck semi-trailers, and route and school bus bodies. The component workshop produces hydraulic tipping kits, brake and air kits, fibreglass mouldings and wiring looms for the company's own builds and for other body builders. Customers are transport operators, fleet owners, dealers, councils and bus operators across the eastern states.
The business operates from three sites. The Wacol plant in Queensland holds the fabrication and welding shop, the component workshop, the chassis and frame assembly hall, the body build and fit-out line, the paint shop and the final inspection bay. The Wetherill Park plant in New South Wales assembles and fits out semi-trailers and provides a second paint line. The Derrimut centre in Victoria carries out warranty repairs, servicing and minor modifications. Production runs a day shift from 6:30 am with a second shift on the fit-out line during peak periods, and every build travels on a work order that records each stage from cut list to delivery.
Nexus is a second stage manufacturer and holds the approvals needed to fit compliance plates to the vehicles it completes. Every build is checked against the Australian Design Rules and the national code of practice for heavy vehicle modifications before delivery, and welding is carried out to the Australian and New Zealand standard for structural steel welding by qualified welders. A quality management system controls drawings, work instructions, calibration, non-conformance and customer complaints. Safety management under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 focuses on welding fume, hot work, cranes and lifting, isocyanate paints, working at height on trailers and mobile plant in the yard.