Proudly Associated With Tensile Membrane Industry Leaders
As a market leader in architectural fabric structures and tensile membranes, we are proud to be associated with the leading membrane industry partners and membrane industry associations.
As an active member of the construction industry in Australia, we also work closely with the leading OH&S, compliance and safety bodies.
Partners in Membrane Construction
Shade Engineering - WA
With over twenty years of experience in providing high quality, architectural, shading solutions Shade Engineering is at the forefront of the tensile membrane industry in Western Australia and one of our membrane industry partners. In that time they have supplied and installed a wide variety of shade structures and umbrellas and are the WA agents for MakMax Australia.
Sky Skills Industries
With over a decade of global tensile membrane installation experience, Sky Skills Industries are one of MakMax Australia’s trusted install partners and have successfully helped us deliver some our largest projects, including Perth Stadium, Memorial Drive Tennis Centre and The Link, Chadstone.
Skymaze Industries
Skymaze Industries provide professional rigging services for the Marine and Architectural sectors. SkyMaze and MakMax Australia have worked together on a number of major projects, including Perth Stadium, the Perth Arbour, Matagarup Bridge and Waikerie Bowls Club.
Empyrean Lighting
Empyrean Lighting is an award winning, Australian based company who designs, manufactures and supplies ultra-high quality LED lighting solutions for a variety of applications worldwide. MakMax chooses Empyrean Lighting to design and supply our premium sports lighting on Bowling Green Canopies.
Bespoke Wire & Rope
Bespoke Wire & Rope offer a range of installation services for the tensile membrane industry. MakMax has worked with Bespoke Wire & Rope as our installation crew on a number of projects, from small umbrella job to major stadiums, and everything in between.
Sponsored Partners
Bowls Australia
Bowls Australia is the national sporting organisation responsible for the leadership, development and management of lawn bowls in Australia. MakMax Australia is a Preferred Partner of Bowls Australia, providing shade and weather protection services and products to the organisation.
Barrie Lester
Barrie Lester is an Australian Jackaroo, four-time Commonwealth Games medalist, BPL winner with the Melbourne Pulse, and part of the winning Men’s 4’s team at the 2023 Australian Open. Barries simple, yet effective philosophy of BLEST, which stands for Bowls, Leadership, Excellence, Skills & Training, has seen him succeed in this sport and he uses this very same philosophy to share the love of the sport with others.
Club Helensvale
Club Helensvale chose MakMax Australia to design and construct a world class bowling green canopy for the club’s members and guests to enjoy for many years to come. The middle green canopy will begin development in late 2022 and opened for play in September 2023. Work will soon begin on a second canopy at the club.
CluBarham Bowls
CluBarham is a premier destination for Bowls along the Murray River. In 2022 cluBarham underwent a major transformation to their lawns bowls facilities which now feature two brand new 9 rink synthetic world class surfaces with a MakMax Bowling Green Canopy over one green for recreational and competitive use all year round. The canopy was extended to cover the second green in 2024.
Ocean Grove Bowling Club
Australia’s largest undercover lawn bowls facility, Playford Bowling Club is home to an impressive Triple-Green Bowling Canopy.
Playford Bowling Club also recently launch their new blue “greens”, a synthetic surface in a world-first iconic blue colour.
Deer Park Club
The new Deer Park Dome will allow for bowlers to enjoy the sport 12 months of the year in the most comfortable of conditions.
The state of the art Deer Park Dome will include two greens (4 rinks and 8 rinks) under the one cover and be a pleasure not just for players but for spectators too.
Clayton Bowling Club
The Clayton Bowling Green Canopy project will enable the Club to offer the community a wider scope of undercover activities and also provide a world-standard green for social and competition bowls all year round.
The size of the membrane (roof) is 43m x 41m (approximately). The canopy edge height is approximately 3.2m and rises to a top of canopy height of approximately 8.5m.
Chadstone Bowls Club
MakMax has designed and developed a unique one-of-a-kind Bowling Green Canopy for Chadstone Bowls Club as part of the Stonington Council’s revival of the Percy Treyvaud Memorial Park sporting facilities.
The new state-of-the-art nest for the Chadstone Eagles welcomed the flock back home at the end of October 2023, and MakMax looks forward to supporting the club for many successful seasons to come.
Karingal Bowling Club
Home to the “Rolls Royce” of Bowling Canopies, Karingal Bowling Club in Frankston is home to the Skyedome PTFE Canopy.
MakMax is proud to support Karingal Bowls Club’s annual Skyedome Superleague competition, an 8-week round-robin style nighttime bowls league.
Playford Bowling Club
Australia’s largest undercover lawn bowls facility, Playford Bowling Club is home to an impressive Triple-Green Bowling Canopy.
Playford Bowling Club also recently launch their new blue “greens”, a synthetic surface in a world-first iconic blue colour.
City of Geelong Bowls Club
The only club in the Geelong region with a full-cover bowling green canopy over one of its greens, the City of Geelong Bowls Club grew out of a merger between two of Geelong’s oldest clubs, Geelong West and Drumcondra.
Installed in 2018, the 1950 sqm PTFE bowling green canopy has created a fantastic facility for the City of Geelong club members.
Industry Organisations
STA (Specialised Textiles Association)
Specialised Textiles Association (STA), was established in the 1940 shortly after the Second World War (under the name of Canvas Manufactures Association) by a group of fabricators and the owners of two large weaving and finishing mills with the objective of promoting industry standards and ethics, lobbying Government and providing a forum for the exchange of ideas.
LSAA (Lightweight Structures Association of Australasia)
The Lightweight Structures Association is a Not for Profit, autonomous, inter-disciplinary group of interested parties involved in the field of lightweight structures. The LSAA basic aim is to promote the proper application of lightweight structures, their design, fabrication, construction and materials, and the development of these and other aspects particular to lightweight structures.
ATA (Advanced Textiles Association)
ATA is a member-owned, member-driven trade association representing the global industrial fabrics industry. Founded in 1912 as the IFAI, the organisation rebranded to ATA (Advanced Textiles Association) in 2022 to more accurately represent the wide variety advanced materials that ATA members were manufacturing and applying in various global projects. ATA is the only trade association in the world representing the entire specialty fabrics/technical textiles industry.
Tensinet
TensiNet is a multi-disciplinary association for parties interested in tensioned membrane and foil construction.
The aim of TensiNet is to enable its members to contribute more effectively, within the scope of their activities, to provide information and advice in the field of tensile membrane buildings, inform members about research and other technical studies necessary to improve the quality of tensile membrane buildings
Sustainability
Mehler Eco-care
The Mehler eco-care concept accompanies Mehler products throughout their entire lifecycle, including in the incorporation of ecological criteria in the selection of raw materials, the use of environmentally friendly production processes, the utilisation of recyclable packaging materials and in the company’s participation in the development of recycling systems.
TEXYLOOP
Texyloop is an initiative of the Ferrari Group, a global stakeholder in the composite textile and membrane field. In all its areas of activity, Ferrari has ensured its long-term development through its capacity ti anticipate and innovate on human, social, technological, commercial, marketing and environmental scales.
Workplace Health & Safety
HammerTech
MakMax Australia choose HammerTech as our workplace safety induction partner. HammerTech’s online registration and digital inductions make it easier to ensure our workers are ready to start work fully compliant with all onsite and industry standard safety regulations. Safety starts with HammerTech.