Siemens in Australia
1850s and 1860s
Siemens Brothers of London views Australia as a separate sales territory and supply telegraphs and water meters.
1872
Siemens Brothers supplies the entire equipment for constructing the 2,700-kilometer telegraph line between Adelaide and Darwin.
1892
Siemens Brothers of London founds the first Siemens agency in Australia.
1893
Siemens delivers the Southern Hemisphere’s first electric streetcar to Hobart, Tasmania.
1909
Siemens lays a marine cable between the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
1923
Siemens & Halske (S&H) signs a provisional agency agreement with Gollin & Co. Pty. Ltd. For Australia, with a main office in Sydney and branch offices in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.
1927
SSW also concludes an agency agreement with Gollin & Co. The S&H agreement is turned into an ordinary agency agreement.
1956
Founding of Siemens-Schuckert Pty. Ltd.
1959
Siemens-Schuckert Pty. Ltd. represents the interest of all company units. The company is renamed Siemens Halske – Siemens Schuckert Pty. Ltd.
1965
The company is renamed Siemens Industries Ltd.
1970
Startup of the first 120-MW turbine-generator unit for the Swanbank power station operated by the Southern Electric Authority of Queensland.
1973
Supply of a stage lighting system for the new opera house in Sydney. From 1980 Major orders for EMS telephone systems.
1980s and 1990s
Siemens’ involvement in Australia’s largest construction project, the Loy Yang mining and power plant complex, includes supplying electrical equipment for dredging shovels and providing steam-powered turbine-generator units for blocks 1,3 and 4, as well as a waste-gas purification plant and a control system.
1999
Siemens wins a contract from Consolidated Electric Power Asia (CEPA) for the turnkey delivery of the Kogan Creek power station, a 700-MW coal-fired plant in Queensland.
2000
Contract received to deliver trams and metro trains for Melbourne
2005
The world’s longest marine cable line, over 290 kilometers, transports electricity from renewable energy sources on the island of Tasmania to the Australian mainland state of Victoria. Siemens’ HVDC technology virtually eliminates transmission losses on the connection
2006
Siemens delivers 20 electric freight locomotives to Queensland Rail
2007
Water Technologies Australia develops the Safe Water Kiosk – an efficient and favorably priced system for processing drinking water
