The year of 2025 has been a turning point for Hydreco Hydraulics. Ten months of growth has primarily been spearheaded by a new purpose-built facility in Regents Park, New South Wales, which has given the hydraulics manufacturer the capacity to serve Australia’s transport industry more efficiently than ever.
The new NSW location, coming to fruition earlier this year after 12 months of planning, brings everything within Hydreco’s operations (office, warehouse, assembly and testing) under one roof. It also features new innovative machinery to improve productivity.
“Our new Regents Park site allows us to hold more local stock, speed up assembly and turn orders around faster,” says Hydreco Hydraulics’ new General Manager, Don Bryan, who is playing an essential role in the business’ continued expansion. “It was designed with growth in mind so that we could keep scaling as demand increases. We’ve heavily invested in new stock handling equipment such as a $250,000 Modula stacker unit, so we now have better access to fast turnaround items.”
The relocation into the Regents Park site was about positioning Hydreco for the future. According to Don, it gave the business the opportunity to reset the way it operates with a smarter and more strategic base to build from. This has since increased response times, improved logistics, allowed for more local stock and enabled better collaboration between teams – resulting in reduced lead times, more consistent supply and less downtime for customers.
During 2025, Hydreco has also streamlined its operations at its Welshpool, Western Australia, facility. This has unlocked a sharper focus on efficiency and has seen new processes introduced for further support of fit-outs and installations.
Hydreco has also expanded its engineering and product management capabilities.
“We’ve broadened our product offering beyond transport,” Don explains. “We now have new hydraulic products from Duplomatic Motion Solutions which we are supplying for the mining, industrial and agriculture sectors. This diversification is already opening up fresh opportunities for us.”
Another noteworthy 2025 highlight of Hydreco’s has been its ability to preserve the status of its existing footprint in Australia. National Sales Manager, Darren Kealey, says the business has maintained its position in the NSW market while growing to its budget on the west coast.
“The performance of the business has been solid,” he says. “We are continuing to improve in a tough market. We’ve brought on Don as our new General Manager and Charles Lim, our new Financial Controller. We’re now looking to bring on an industrial hydraulics person to capitalise on the global Hydreco business. This is an opportunity for us going into 2026, and we’re trying to position ourselves at the moment so that we can expand into that in the future.”
Looking ahead into 2026, Hydreco is now planning to launch several new products. These will revolve around the business’ Power Take-Off (PTO) range and rear countershaft PTOs.
“We will be making these products more in line with modern trucks,” Darren says. “We’ve got engineers around the world in Italy and India helping our local engineers to develop products, and these are now starting to come online.
“The market can expect to see these new products towards the end of this year and the start of 2026.”
Outside of this, Darren says Hydreco will be locked onto more growth.
“We’ve had successful growth over the last 10 years and we’re planning to capitalise on that to expand further,” he says. “We’ve got a stable team in WA which provides us with a platform to develop into other sectors, so we’re hoping to take advantage of that for the east coast.
“The five-year plan is to double the business. We’re looking forward to seeing where we can get to.”
