BusTech

Mathew Fitch, Director BusTech Group is an Australian bus-building manufacturer with production facilities in Rocklea, Queensland, Edinburgh Adelaide, South Australia and Burnie, Tasmania.

[2] The company was originally established as Bustech in 1995 by the then owners of Gold Coast, Queensland bus operator, Surfside Buslines the Calabro family.

[12] Buses were initially produced on Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Hino chassis with the first such vehicle completed in 1998 from their original Ernest, Queensland factory.

Bustech has already signed a AUD$170 million contract to manufacture electric buses for the Malaysian government in late 2014.

In 2016, through the Transit Australia Group, Bustech signed a deal with Dubai South to provide electric buses.

[19] In September 2019, it was announced that Bustech will be merging with its joint venture partner Precision Buses, which is owned by Fusion Capital Holdings.

[20] Both organisations would have a combined strategic management and direction under a new holding company called Australian Bus Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fusion.

Following the collapse of the Clifford Corporation, Bustech was successful in winning further orders from a variety of operators such as Sunbus and the Pulitano Group in Queensland and Connex, Forest Coachlines and Calabro family relation Busabout in New South Wales from 2000 to 2002.

Commenced production in 2006 branded as the Graduate, they have been built on a variety of chassis including MAN 18.280 and 19.320, Mercedes-Benz OH1830L, Scania K94IB, and Volvo B7R/Volvo B8R.

In 2023, Hunter Valley based transit operator Newcastle Transport begun using 3 Bustech ZDi's[25] as part of the New South Wales governments move to a fully zero emissions bus fleet by 2047[26] The ZDi model has been approved as a "Panel 3-approved Australian vehicle for NSW" by Transport for NSW.

Bustech bodied Mercedes-Benz O405NH of 2002 new to Connex NSW
Bustech VST body of 2010 built on a Volvo B7RLE chassis
Bustech XDi of 2012 with Cummins ISL engine operating on demonstration with Busabout
Bustech CDi of 2013 with Cummins ISL engine operating a 777 inbound at Gold Coast Airport
Bustech ZDI Electric bus with Newcastle Transport in Newcastle , 2023