Modcon Campers is proud to be a family owned business. It was started by Phyllis and Kerry Jones who both grew up in the Riverina region of NSW surrounded by farmland and wheat fields. After school, Kerry went onto agricultural college and then on to the CSIRO. Kerry and Phyllis had two daughters – Kellie and Toni. The Jones family wanted to ensure that their kids grew up with the same type of surroundings that they had – large open spaces, animals and fresh air. This, combined with their passion for camping, led to many happy family camping trips all across the east coast of Australia. In 1996, after 16 years in the Federal Police, Kerry decided that he would get back to his roots. His interest was always in engineering and manufacturing – he was forever tinkering on cars and lawn mowers and tractors. He went into manufacturing on a small scale. It started with welding trailers and then camping trailers and then redesigning the family camper trailer. And he really hasn’t stopped since! After officially founding Modcon around 25 years ago, Kerry has gone on to design, refine and improve hundreds of different camper trailers. Many of these models have proven to be very successful, particularly the forward fold camper trailers. By 2001, Modcon Campers expanded and the business moved into a commercial premise in Veronica Street, Capalaba. This allowed Modcon to have a customer outlet and a work shed with a mezzanine for canvas work to be completed. With Kerry’s interest in design and improvement in manufacturing, the range grew from soft floor camper trailers to hard floor rear fold camper trailers to forward fold camper trailers over the next 10 years. Modcon focused on manufacturing custom designed camper trailers to suit each of their customers needs. Designs were influenced by their own travel experiences, as all as the experiences of their customers. The Modcon Family had grown significantly. Their trailers were not only being sold by their staff but by the customers who loved to travel with them. Due to popular demand and a growing interest in the market for an easier way to go camping, Modcon Campers developed a full range of seven different types of soft floor camper trailer. This meant an expansion of the production area was required with another 300 sqm manufacturing shed. They purchased their own heavy equipment such as benders, guillotines, welders and other fabrication equipment. The original building was used as a showroom and for canvas production with up to 5 canvas sewers working daily. Key transitions in the company, such as leadership changes and operational shifts—specifically the retirement of the founders and the relocation of production to improve the business’s future direction and performance. The Modcon range combines products from all over the world to make a unique product that suits the Australian market with quality, longevity and ease of use in mind. Some examples are the main body of the camper being fabricated in China, the stoves from the UK and the diesel heating systems and hot water systems being produced locally. Many components are still purchased in Australia from Australian owned companies. In today’s manufacturing and fabrication industry, the secret is to source the best components, regardless of where they come from. Modcon is not only run by the Jones Family but also the extended ModCon Family. They have 15 employees who all contribute to the production of each camper, plus feedback from the large Modcon customer base ensures constant improvement. Each camper spends three weeks undergoing assembly, fitting out and testing before being handed over to a new Modcon owner. It will go through five departments to ensure the quality control is checked at every point, including the undercarriage, electrical, external fit out and internal fit out. The camper is then moved to pre delivery where the actual sales people you speak with go over the camper to prepare for handover. A comprehensive ‘handover procedure’ is carried out by Modcon staff at delivery time. Modcon endeavours to ensure all owners have a complete knowledge of their new purchase. Modcon ensures that continued innovation occurs with their models as well as new models being released. Their customers are invaluable in identifying possible improvements or limitations in the ModCon range. This feedback ensures all models are fine tuned to maximum efficiency and quality. Our driving goal is to ensure every Modcon customer enjoys the easiest possible camping experience when they hit the road with one of our campers and to make amazing memories on every single trip. We’re all about easy camping and amazing memories
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