One trusted name on the machines

The bright green logo of SC Heinrich and Co is a familiar brand emblazoned across much of the Cat® machinery seen in and around South Australia's Barossa and Clare Valley.

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The respected South Australian civil construction and earthmoving company SC Heinrich has long been synonymous with quality workmanship, precision, and reliability, building a strong reputation through decades of successful projects across the state – from large-scale roadworks and mining infrastructure to dam construction, windfarm development, agricultural land care and local council contracts.

The company provides a variety of heavy plant for hire such as trucks, scrapers, excavators, dozers as well as a mobile crushing plant. It also has a broad range of quarry products, which are sourced and produced at various quarry sites located across the Clare area and the Mid North.

The power of three

The business is currently run by Managing Director Malcolm Heinrich and his son Alex as Operations Manager, with his brother Andrew involved as leading hand and operator.

“We are a family business of friendly, hard workers whose aim is to not only deliver a quality service, but to also exceed customer expectations,” Malcolm said.

The family tradition began three generations ago in 1954, when Stanley Clarence Heinrich, along with his wife Yvonne, started off a business with just a truck and a shovel.

“Stan sold his motorbike to buy the truck from his then-employer Merv Hentschke,” Malcolm said.

“He started carting sand and gravel by loading the truck with the shovel and unloading with the same shovel.

“It was hard work. Sometimes he would get the truck bogged in the sandpit and have to unload, dig the truck out and then reload.

“He also carted grain, grapes, fertiliser, all manually loaded and unloaded. He also did earthmoving, cleaning out and building dams, and any other jobs that came along.

“Mum was always by his side doing the books, making food, sewing, and playing the piano accordion when the beers came out!”