Email Limited was a manufacturing conglomerate operating mainly in Australia, best known for domestic electricity meters and major appliances.
The company was incorporated in New South Wales on 30 November 1934 as Electricity Meter & Allied Industries Ltd;[1] it adopted the Email name (an acronym) on 20 October 1951.
[citation needed][2] In 1946 after World War II, Email obtained the former Orange Small Arms Factory at Orange, New South Wales, which was refitted to manufacture electricity meters, pumps, radio parts and refrigerators, using state of the art technologies and manufacturing concepts.
In the 1980s the company acquired control of several large Australian manufacturing companies including Kelvinator Ltd (1980) (which was a branch of the US-based Kelvinator business), McIlwraith-Davey Industries Ltd (1984), Simpson Holdings Limited (1986), Brownbuilt Ltd (1988) and the steel process and distribution business of Bunge International (1989).
In 1994, their petrol bowser, bay loading controller (BLC) and bulk fuel loading rack manufacturing business, Email Electronics (by then known as Email Petroleum Systems), closed its manufacturing factory in Bayswater, Victoria, sold off its circuit board department to former staff, then sold off much of its remaining manufacturing and stock assets before moving to a portable building at the affiliated NVE site in Hallam, Victoria in 1996 where it continued to be asset-stripped and the remaining staff laid off.
Their Omega 3000 software product, which controlled the BLC hardware and bulk fuel-loading site access, was sold to Diamond Key International (DKI) which was set up by former Email senior staff around that time.
Eventually a deal was struck between the ACCC, BHP Steel and Smorgon to alleviate competition concerns, and the takeover went ahead.