A HERALD & PERTH VOICE PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
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In 2006, five people started a small business making precast concrete panels, with plenty of ambition and not much else. Twenty years on, Permacast has grown into one of Western Australia’s leading precast and prestressed concrete manufacturers. Chances are you have sat on, driven over or ridden across something our crew has made.
If you have been to the footy at Optus Stadium, your seat sits on one of more than 3200 seating plats our crews cast. The polished precast seating along Elizabeth Quay came out of our yard, as did components for the Forrestfield Airport Link. We also supplied structural precast for the elevated METRONET viaducts through Bayswater, Whiteman Park and Armadale. That included a 240-tonne beam, the heaviest precast beam ever made in WA.
Permacast – Aramdale / Byford Train Station and Permacast Yard via Glow Creative. Perth on the 7th November 2025 – Copyright Daniel Carson | dcimages.org
This month, one project means more than most. When the new Fremantle Traffic Bridge opens on 1 November, it will carry 48 beams and 193 architectural parapet units made by our team. The parapets line the bridge, so everyone who walks, rides or drives across will pass them. The old timber bridge went up in 1939 as a temporary fix and stayed in service for more than 85 years. Its replacement is built to serve Fremantle for at least a century.
The next 20 years will ask more of concrete, which is one of the largest industrial sources of carbon emissions. We are working with WA partners on low-carbon concrete made from mining by-products, and on locking captured carbon dioxide into our products.
Co-founder and Managing Director Alberto Ferraro has been with the business since the beginning.
“Twenty years ago, there were five of us and a lot of ambition. Everything since has come from good people backing each other, clients who trust us and our Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale community,” Mr Ferraro said.
“What we make will outlast all of us, so you do it properly. The Fremantle Traffic Bridge is a good reminder of why.”
Our thanks go to our crew, our clients, the WA Government for continuing to back WA-made, and everyone who has been patient through the detours. We’ll see you on the bridge.