The 90-year legacy of Haymes Paint

HAYMES Paint has unveiled the new David Haymes Centre for Excellence in Mitchell Park which will support the business’ innovation into the future.

The centre is part of a $40 million, five-year project that aims to support Australian jobs, sustainability and product innovation.

 

The new facility includes state-of-the-art equipment and doubles the company’s manufacturing capacity to 22 million litres per standard working week.

It is the largest investment into the company to date.

“This will ensure we remain in Ballarat, and we actually remain a strong manufacturer and family-owned business in Ballarat,” CEO Rod Walton said.

 

“We bring in world technology here to create the best paint consumers can buy both in residential and commercial.”

The building has 2000 square metres of solar panels and two 160-kilolitre rainwater tanks that will provide up to 80 per cent of water used to produce paint.

 

Haymes Paint is also committed to participating in the Committee for Ballarat’s feasibility study to make the region Australia’s first 100 per cent renewable-powered city.

“As a third generation within the family business we understand the objective going forward that we leave the planet in a better place than when we came in within the business,” Mr Walton said.

“Sustainability and our environmental impact is really important to us.”

 

This year is the 90th year of the Ballarat-based paint manufacturer which is the largest family-owned paint brand in Australia.

Matt Haymes said the secret to the company’s success is their family-oriented values.

“The values of our business is critically important,” he said. “Honesty, trust, treating people the way you want to be treated.

 

“As much as we are a family business, it’s not just the Haymes family, it’s the families that work in our business.”

As the company looks to the future, the David Haymes Centre for Excellence provides room to increase the company’s manufacturing capacity.

“Between my sister and my brother-in-law and my brother and I, we said we don’t want to mess it up,” Matt Haymes said.

 

“Now we’re probably at a point where in the last 10 or 15 years we’re saying we’re ready to take this on.

“We want to take it on for more generations. This facility here gives us that opportunity.”