Powerful technology for food production
Natec Australia was founded as Gold Peg International and we build world-leading industrial food machinery . We focus on the quality of the food produced, and on plant productivity. Natec Australia designs and manufactures industrial food equipment specialising in direct steam injection cooking and processing systems.
About Natec Australia
Roots in food technology and plant managing
Robert "Bob" Smith founded Gold Peg as a one-man operation in 1988 as an experienced mocha technologist and inventor of the RotaTherm® continuous stove (cooker). It wasn't long before Gold Peg was supplying RotaTherm® systems to food manufacturers around the world. To this day, the RotaTherm® continuous cooker is the most sophisticated and technologically advanced direct steam injection continuous cooker in the world.
Expansion
In 2005, Gold Peg established a fully vertically integrated in-house manufacturing facility including design, machining, welding, polishing, assembly, programming, installation and commissioning by a team of expert engineers.
Team
In 2024, Natec Australia was officially recognised as a great place to work.
Joined the Natec Network
By the time Gold Peg became a member of the Natec Network in 2015, the company had already grown to 50 employees. The network is the powerful result of the merger of two complementary food technology companies: Gold Peg for cooking and processing, Hochland Natec for filling and forming. As of July 2023 Gold Peg is now called Natec Australia Pty Ltd.