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Since our establishment in 1953, we have been at the forefront of Leaf and Coil Spring Manufacturing, specializing in the supply of Suspension Components. With several generations of family ownership and extensive experience, we've emerged as a leader in the global Spring Industry, integrating years of knowledge into our products.
Our success is rooted in delivering high-quality products, leveraging technical expertise, and utilizing state-of-the-art equipment to ensure professional service and performance.
We pride ourselves on having the world’s largest range of 4x4 spring and suspension componentry at Dobinsons Spring & Suspension. You can explore this extensive range through our online catalogues or by making selections online.
Our quality of design and manufacture is what sets us apart from our competitors, if not the price. We manufacture and repair a broad range of springs and sell a comprehensive range of suspension components.
At Dobinsons Spring & Suspension, we have been exporting our products to different parts of the world, and our name has become synonymous with quality in these countries.
With an extensive database of over 13,000 spring specifications, we utilize advanced computerized spring design programs to ensure accurate and professional results.
Our Rockhampton factory covers over 4000m², consisting of a leaf spring production line, a coil spring production line and two large stock holding warehouses. There are thousands of parts kept in stock, including Coil Springs, Leaf Springs, Torsion Bars, Shock Absorbers, Greasable Shackle Kits and Pins, U-Bolts, Polyurethane Bushes, Centre Bolts, Castor Wedges & 4x4 Accessories. It also includes a fully equipped service department dedicated to removing and replacing all types of suspension componentry on passenger vehicles, 4x4 vehicles and trucks.
Throughout the 1940’s and early 1950’s Reg Dobinson, a hard working blacksmith, earned a well deserved reputation as an exceptional tradesman and expert spring repairer.
He began perfecting his spring repair and manufacture skills at the Queensland Railway and as a result the demand for his expertise grew. As time went on he began to specialise in spring repair and manufacture, and it led him to take on further weekend work for friends, repairing springs.
Reg’s keen eye for quality, attention to detail and his passion for blacksmithing and spring repair soon saw Reg spend all of his spare time working.
In 1953, having more work than he was able to handle, Reg founded ‘Dobinsons Welding Works’ (now known as ‘Dobinsons Spring & Suspension’) under a tamarin tree in the backyard of his Rockhampton home.
The next few decades saw the business grow exceptionally as Reg began specialising in the repair and the manufacture of springs for Rockhampton and surrounding areas.
With a huge demand for his quality work, Reg was soon working up to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week - without taking holidays for years at a time.
An innovator and a man ahead of his time, Reg purchased Central Queensland’s very first computer in the mid 60’s to improve efficiency. He also began to manufacture his own machinery such as a leaf spring eye roller - designed, engineered and built by Reg himself, utilising manufactured parts and hydraulics taken from ex-warplanes.
In the late 70’s, Reg’s sons Glen and Keith Dobinson joined the growing family business and immediately showed the same passion and expertise in spring repair and manafacturing, allowed Reg’s work load to be shared. With fresh eyes and more hands, Dobinsons began to distribute their quality products throughout Australia.
Reg Dobinson with Dobinsons Welding Works first Company Vehicle.
Reg Dobinson demonstrating his new invention, the ‘Leaf Spring Eye Roller’.
Our success throughout the Australian market sparked our desire, as Reg and his sons, to share our top-quality products with the world.
In the mid-1980s, we exported our first order. While we now export to over 50 countries worldwide, in a time before fax machines were prevalent and the Internet existed, this meant a trip down to the local post office to purchase international phone books to find international distributors and to receive international orders.
In 1991, we moved to our current location in Rockhampton, and in 1994, Reg retired, leaving Glen and Keith as directors of our ever-growing company.
In the mid-'90s, our vision led us to design and build an entire coil spring manufacturing line, and we began producing world-class coil springs from our Australian production facility.
In the late '90s, with over 40 years of spring and suspension experience already under our belt, we began designing, developing, and distributing our own range of 4x4 shock absorbers.
In the early 2000s, Glen and Keith’s children began working in the family business, and with a shared passion for the suspension industry and 4x4’s, our company continued to grow.
In 2009, we began the research, development, and testing of our range of 4x4 accessory products, which have earned a reputation as high-quality 4x4 products that complement our extensive range of suspension products.
Over 60 years on, and three generations later, our Rockhampton production and warehousing facility has grown to over 8,000 square meters. We now have over 5 major warehousing distribution facilities across Australia with an Australia-wide dealer network, as well as distributors in over 50 countries worldwide.