Sue and Kevin Miller (on the left) receive the Essington Lewis Award from Gregor Ferguson for the work the International Seal Company undertook with Navy stores

Take a close look at the work of the International Seal Company Australia (ISCA) and you will see why they say: “We’re not just a seal company”.

ISCA has worked hard to develop its manufacturing of high tolerance, high quality plastic injection moulded components for a wide range of areas, and machined components and specific retro-fit or refurbishment programs for Defence, the medical industry and aviation/airfield and light commercial.

ISCA has operated since 1979 and also imports, manufactures and sells elastomeric seals and o-rings for a variety of applications. Other areas of manufacturing include rubber moulding and tool making. The company also is a major supplier to Defence and the aerospace industry as an original equipment manufacturer and after market supplier with full traceability and certification.

National Sales and Marketing Manager, Mr Greg Phillips, points out that ISCA works hard for innovative solutions and is proud of achievements, such as with Navy stores (for which it has won the Australian Defence Magazine Essington Lewis Trophy for Defence project Team of the Year 2006).

“Navy stores across Australia had extensive rubber preformed items that were unused and in need of a major clean out,” Greg said. “We won the contract to inspect, evaluate, store, repackage and determine shelf life capacity for the items that were deemed perishable.”

Greg pointed out ISCA’s range of military quality o-rings and seals meet full requirements. “We manufacture and supply seals mainly to the Navy for submarines and surface ships, but also supply to the Air Force and major commercial jet aircraft repairers in Australia and New Zealand.”

“The ISCA team was headed by Mr Kevin Miller, Director of ISCA and the company’s chemist with extensive knowledge of elastomeric compounds, and Mr Damien Miller, General Manager of ISCA and who also has vast experience in rubber and plastic injection moulding. All the findings were recorded into a database compatible with Navy requirements.”

The project concluded in December, 2006, and during that time over 15,000 parts were inspected. Of these, over 60 percent inspected were found to be serviceable and were returned in correct packaging for storage into the Defence storage network.

ISCA also has recently been included as a participant in the Rapid Prototype Development and Evaluation (RPDE) program for the investigation and evaluation of Defence capability improvement.