Press Releases

The clean air we all breathe is something we have in common. Whether it be cutting down on C02 emissions, or the public risk of second-hand smoke, keeping the air clean is important. Especially in and around the places we spend a lot of time – homes and workplaces. One area where Unitex leads the […]

The current and ongoing furore concerning Non-Compliant Cladding is of great concern on High-Rise Buildings. The Age Friday July 2019 ‘Construction Confidence plummets’ – Author Clay Lucas ‘…pursue nationally consistent building standards, amid the flammable cladding crisis…’ ‘The meeting resulted in ministers agreeing that the Australian Building Codes Board – the body that sets the National […]

The Unitex Base Board System is fully accredited and has been in use for over 30 years without issue. Unitex has always chosen to be aligned with Industry and international best practise providers of Accreditation, currently Branz and Bureau Veritas. The certifiers of Unitex systems carry out stringent audits of the Unitex products and processes […]

It was only a few years ago, when the standard method of decorating and finishing high-rise building, featured timeless renders and texturing over masonry and concrete building methods. Fast forward to the last few years, where cheap, and apparently ‘safe’ aluminium composite cladding, and glass curtain cladding, has become the status quo.  We were told […]

Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the initial sweetness of low price is forgotten’. In the building industry, this saying is probably most appropriate, given building a home is usually the biggest financial investment most people will make in their lifetimes. At Unitex, we hear story after story, of […]

The continuing saga of high-speed building fires caused by unregulated and non-accredited cladding has been big news in Australian media, and is also causing huge headaches in the Middle East. Skyscraper after skyscraper are going up in flames, often taking less than 30 minutes to ignite top to bottom.  The culprit, non-accredited cladding, has been […]

Public Announcement, The Unitex Granular Marble Manufacturing and Distribution Franchise agreement in Western Australia ended on 31st December 2015. Both the Franchisor, Unitex Granular Marble Pty Ltd of 22 Park Drive Dandenong  Victoria 3175, and Franchisee, 3 Meg.com of Unit 1 , 3Hunt St. Malaga WA 6090 have agreed that from the above date 3Meg.com shall […]

We have all seen the recent headlines and read the reports of disastrous construction events caused by non-accredited and non-compliant cladding, leaving both resident and developer in a legal minefield. Whilst we at Unitex empathise with the victims in these reports, we have long advocated for the industry to support locally made CodeMark accredited complete […]

Unitex has launched what is set to be the most functional and engaging website for its’ customers, and the broader market, that has ever been seen in the Australian building manufacturing industry, adding to its’ already superior service and product offering. Unitex National Sales & Marketing Director, Siska Concannon explains that “the website has been […]

Unitex has recently launched its’ superior range of Architectural Mouldings and Columns, as well as the Australian markets’ highly accredited cladding system, the Unitex Baseboard System, onto the market leading Architectural 3D modelling software – Revit. As the market leader in Architectural Mouldings and Columns, Unitex through Revit has provided the Architectural and Building Design […]