About Us
Our parent company Screwpile Australia introduced screwpiles and screw anchor technology to the Australian Market in 1994. Since then it has supplied in excess of three million steel piles to the Australian construction, mining, marine and building industries.
Extensive research, development and testing results in a reliable, fast and cost effective piling system which offers many advantages over conventional piling methods existing at that time. Screwpiles are exceptionally strong and designed to hold massive loads in tension and compression, they are large (1.5 -30 metres in length), have large rigid steel helices, are very heavy and require specialised mechanical machinery and experienced operators to wind them into the ground. Great technology but too big to carry around.
How the wombat was born
Steve Lewenhoff (the inventor) wanted something small, very lightweight, extremely strong and reusable that could be used by anyone, anywhere. After dabbling with mini steel screwpiles with relatively little success, he thought "what if?" ... What if I use plastic instead of steel for the helix? Will it work? Will it be strong enough?
So he changed the rigid steel helix to a flexible one made of hi-tech composite polymers. What he found was amazing.
The wombat was born and it has proved to be stronger, tougher, lighter than any other portable shallow sand anchor available anywhere in the world.
This radical change of thinking has the potential to change the way objects are tied down. This technology will eventually benefit the construction industry worldwide. And so in 2004 RapidAnchor Pty Ltd was founded to design, develop and manufacture this innovative new mini screwpile now known as the wombat ... the strongest, re-usable shallow ground anchor in the world.