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Established in 1968, Ampcontrol is one of Australia’s leading international suppliers of electrical and electronic products to the tunnelling, power, energy & mining sectors. With over 40 years experience we pride ourselves on providing superior products and service to all our market sectors, including heavy industry, energy, mining, mineral processing & refining, power generation & distribution, traction, defence and oil & gas.

Ampcontrol is able to offer complete in-house designed and manufactured packages of electrical and electronic products engineered to international standards, embracing individual components to provide total electrical solutions.

Ampcontrol’s remarkable growth is reflected in its turnover increase of more than 340% since 2002. Underpinning Ampcontrol’s success is the ability to identify client needs and provide customised total solutions.

The Ampcontrol Group employs more than 800 people across 18 sites in Australia, and another six sites internationally in China, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, Russia and the United Kingdom.

Some of the tunnelling projects which Ampcontrol has provided either service packages or total tunnelling package solutions include:

  • Airport Link Rail Tunnel, Sydney
  • Bondi Sewerage Outfall, Sydney
  • Boulder Bay Sewerage Outfall, Port Stephens
  • Princes Highway M5, Sydney
  • North South Bypass, Brisbane
  • North Side Storage Tunnel, Sydney
  • Boggo Road Bus Tunnel, Brisbane
  • Lai Chi Kok, Drainage Tunnel, HK
  • East Link Tunnel, Melbourne
  • Gold Coast Desalination Alliance
  • Main Reticulation, Melbourne
  • Northern Sewer Project, Melbourne

Ampcontrol supplied products from each of its three divisions to the North South Bypass Tunnel in Brisbane, Australia. The Power Division supplied 2 x 11/22kV 20 MVA step up/step down type oil cooled transformers with a vector group Ynynod11 and a capacity of 20,000 KVA. The Electronics Division supplied IPM relays specifically designed for hard rock applications, and the Service Division supplied a 22kV switchroom with 630A bus tie and 17 km of various heavy-duty cables for underground use.

The Ampcontrol Metalliferous IPM Integrated Protection Relay is an intelligent microprocessor based relay that provides protection and control of electrical outlets supplying mining machinery.

The relay combines a number of protection, recognition and alarm features into a single versatile relay, the IPM.

Ampcontrol is able to supply turnkey electrical solutions, engineered to international standards. The following products and services are available as part of our tunnelling packages:

  • Cable Hire, Sale & Repair
  • Integrated Protection Relays
  • Monitoring & Control systems
  • Transformers
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Lighting
  • Power Factor Correction
  • HV & LV Switchboards
  • Substations





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