stephen forgacs headquarters newcastle new south wales area served international products ship building ship repair heavy engineering number of employees 1000 parent civmec 1 website www.forgacs.com.au forgacs group is a major australian engineering and shipbuilding company . it has facilities at newcastle sydney brisbane and gladstone . the company employs 1000 people . hmas ballarat in forgacs floating dock at newcastle . the forgacs group acquired ullman engineering in 1962 and in 1987 it acquired the newcastle floating dock . 2 shipbuilder carrington slipways was acquired in 1997 and the cairncross dockyard facilities in brisbane in 1999 . 2 cairncross is used for commercial ship repair and includes one of the largest graving docks in australasia . 3 the dockyard can accommodate ships up to the panamax sized class . forgacs conducts refit and maintenance work for the royal australian navy including the repair and extensive conversion of the kanimbla class lpas following their purchase from the united states navy . they had constructed hull blocks for the anzac class frigates and in 2009 they were contracted to build 30 hull blocks for the hobart class destroyers being constructed in adelaide for the royal australian navy . 4 see also edit australia portal companies portal bae systems australia references edit forgacs name acquired by civmec . forgacs marine and defence . 2 february 2016 . retrieved 5 february 2016 . a b company profile . forgacs group . retrieved 29 september 2011 . raytheon forgacs push cairncross yard . australian defense magazine . yaffa publishing group . 10 january 2008 . retrieved 29 september 2011 . awd alliance selects preferred suppliers for 450m shipbuilding work . awd alliance . 9 may 2009 . retrieved 10 october 2011 . external links edit official website this article about an australian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title forgacs group & oldid 725289266 categories engineering companies of australiashipbuilding companies of australiaaustralian company stubshidden categories use dmy dates from may 2013use australian english from may 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian englishall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 june 2016 at 19 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view