NQEA
Fry is Owner & Chairman of AIMTEK (formerly NQEA Australia Pty Ltd, formerly North Queensland Engineers and Agents Pty Ltd), started by his father in 1948 in Cairns, Queensland as a general engineering company contracting to the mining industry, then diversified. Fry started his apprenticeship as a Fitter and Turner with NQEA.
Under Fry's direction, NQEA later entered the boat building and maintenance industry, and won the contract to build the 14 Australian follow-on 42m Fremantle Class patrol boats for the Royal Australian Navy that entered service in the 1980s, then provided maintenance for the ships. NQEA later built and maintained luxury pleasure boats.
NQEA has built: • Automatic road to rail Bin Transfer System • Continuous 'A' grade Fugal for the separation of molasses from sugar • Semi-Swath Passenger/Vehicle Catamaran • Low Wash Ferries operating in Sydney, Tahiti, Holland, Nigeria and London • Automatic Docking Systems • Coffee and Tea Harvesters • Bauxite washing facilities • Coal loading conveyor systems and bucket wheel reclaimers • Semi-submersible Reef Viewer • 100 tonne Ship ‘Travellift’ and associated infrastructure. • 27 fully automatic Bagasse Storage and Reclaim Systems in Fiji, Jamaica, NSW & Queensland • First silica sand processing, stockpile, wharf and ship-loading facility at Cape Flattery • Landing craft • 30 tonne bollard pull tugs • Prawn trawlers • Luxury passenger ferry for Hayman Island • 22 work boats for the RAN & Australian Army • 8 Work Boats for the PNG Government • 14 Fremantle class Patrol Craft for the RAN • 6 low wash ferries for Sydney, numerous fast ferries for Queensland tourist operators • 5,000 tonne deadweight slip hopper powered barge • Luxury yachts for Australian and US clients • 3,000 tonne deadweight ore carrier - fitted with a fully automatic filling and discharge system and autodocking system • Fast ferries and hovercraft exported to PNG, Japan, New Zealand, Kuwait, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Canada, England, Seychelles, Angola and Holland.
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