Australian export case study Australian aquatic equipment has been chosen for the upcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi in October. The equipment is made by Queensland-based Anti Wave, a company headed by founder, Anton Kajlich, a former professional water polo player. Anti Wave, a leading innovator in swim, leisure and pool programming equipment, has a long and tested history in supplying products for major aquatic events. The equipment selected for Delhi will be used in both the Main Pool and training pools. Forty years major event experience ‘Our major event experience goes back some forty years,’ said Mr Kajlich. ‘We were first selected to supply aquatic equipment for Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and we have been supplying equipment for major events ever since. ‘In fact, at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Anti Wave products were used in fifteen World Records and in the recent Beijing Olympics our products were used in twenty World Records.’ Anti Wave’s unique swimming lanes, which Anton Kajlich designed, were first patented in 1975. ‘And they were used in the World Swimming Championships that same year.’ Key factor in success Mr. Kajlich said that Austrade had been a key factor in Anti Wave’s success in being chosen to supply aquatic equipment for the Commonwealth Games in India. ‘No matter how good your product, you always have to work at getting each new contract,’ he noted, ‘and Austrade was there for us when it mattered – to help us when we were pitching – and we very much appreciate the assistance we received from the Austrade Delhi office.’ Anti Wave produces a wide range of equipment for swimming pools and water polo, includes racing lanes, starting blocks, water polo goals, judges’ stations, pool deck gratings, moveable bulkheads and floors, and submersible swimwalls. The equipment is made at Anti Wave’s main operation and factory in Ipswich, Queensland. The company also has a factory in Ding Guo, in southern China, and licencing and marketing arrangements in many countries around the world, including China, India, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Return to Business Club Australia success stories |