SN TECHNOLOGIES PTY. LTD.
A.C.N. 075 672 963
Sydney Nuclear Technologies commenced trading in April 1996 by Mr Steve Newlands in the southern Sydney suburb of Gymea. With 11 year’s experience as Service Engineer and Radiation Licensee for Ramsey Engineering, Steve travelled extensively throughout Australia and SE Asia to install, commission, calibrate and repair nuclear density and level gauges, gravimetric belt scales and other assorted instrumentation like flow meters and pressure sensors.
With the implementation of ‘Certified Radiation Experts’ by the Environment Protection Authority of NSW to provide ‘Compliance Inspection’ of Fixed Radiation Gauges, Steve saw the opportunity to create his own company and SN Technologies was born. Many of his peers believed that SN was procured from his own name. However, Steve had worked with a nuclear product originally known as Texas Nuclear which was renamed TN Technologies and is today known as Thermo Fisher.
As many mining companies are affiliated with specific brands of equipment it quickly became apparent that to survive, Steve would need to become knowledgeable with every brand of density gauge and set about to learn the intricacies of all the gauges on the market. Today, Steve has cemented very good relationships with every manufacturer of nuclear density and level gauges. In 1996 Steve designed his first nuclear isotope housing the Model XP200 which is only manufactured in the grade of Stainless Steel 316. The XP200 was designed in compliance with the ARPANSA Code of Practice and Safety Guide for the Safe Use of Fixed Radiation Gauges 2007 (RPS No.13) and passed the destructive tests applied by ANSTO Engineering as required by Schedule D of that code.
Now with over 35 years experience in the nuclear industry Steve is waiting on both his two sons to complete Year 12 and continue the Sydney Nuclear Technologies brand through the next generation of density instrument engineering.
With the implementation of ‘Certified Radiation Experts’ by the Environment Protection Authority of NSW to provide ‘Compliance Inspection’ of Fixed Radiation Gauges, Steve saw the opportunity to create his own company and SN Technologies was born. Many of his peers believed that SN was procured from his own name. However, Steve had worked with a nuclear product originally known as Texas Nuclear which was renamed TN Technologies and is today known as Thermo Fisher.
As many mining companies are affiliated with specific brands of equipment it quickly became apparent that to survive, Steve would need to become knowledgeable with every brand of density gauge and set about to learn the intricacies of all the gauges on the market. Today, Steve has cemented very good relationships with every manufacturer of nuclear density and level gauges. In 1996 Steve designed his first nuclear isotope housing the Model XP200 which is only manufactured in the grade of Stainless Steel 316. The XP200 was designed in compliance with the ARPANSA Code of Practice and Safety Guide for the Safe Use of Fixed Radiation Gauges 2007 (RPS No.13) and passed the destructive tests applied by ANSTO Engineering as required by Schedule D of that code.
Now with over 35 years experience in the nuclear industry Steve is waiting on both his two sons to complete Year 12 and continue the Sydney Nuclear Technologies brand through the next generation of density instrument engineering.