Principal, Roger Bengtsson, began his engineering career at the highly-regarded vehicle body builders, Vawdrey Australia, where he won the coveted Gary Webb Memorial Award for excellence in Vehicle Body Making in 1980 from Batman Automotive College.
Roger later settled in South Gippsland and established his own business Shakanda Engineering in 1998. Shakanda Engineering is a wholly-Australian owned business providing service, quality and innovation in many facets of customized vehicle modifications for specialist applications, as well as steel construction.
Shakanda’s business philosophy in the early years was to service the local farming community with a high quality product that was not available elsewhere in the Gippsland region.
In more recent years the business has grown from strength to strength, now also supplying large Government corporations, as well as large agricultural and industrial companies.
As a result of this growth Shakanda has also moved into the design and fabrication of special purpose commercial vehicles for Police, Emergency Service agencies and specialist vehicle users and we see this as a growing part of our product offering.
Shakanda continues to work with our client base to design and develop innovative new processes, developing market-ready equipment and conducting R & D for in-house projects and external clients.
Our Engineering Manager Tim Knight has recently become a Director and Shareholder in our business and will continue to build on the company’s excellent reputation across the industry sectors that we service.
Shakanda’s philosophy is to never be involved in price or quality cutting, but to consistently improve the standard of design and quality within the Australian small to medium commercial vehicle market and industrial and commercial specialty equipment sectors.
Today the Shakanda name is synonymous with high quality and durability and these are built into every product we put our name to.
Endurance Engineering Bendigo Bank Gippsland Business Awards – Finalist 2012 Wholly Australian made and owned!