Our Story

Partnering with the Australian energy sector for 70 years.

1940s
1940s

Lance Thew and Harold McCann start their small, two-man company in Sydney to service the Australian electrical supply industry.

1950s
1950s

Thew & McCann expands its supply chain to provide overhead line hardware including imported products.

1960s
1960s

Thew & McCann expand into Queensland opening a branch in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane and appoint Norm Pearce as Manager for northern Australia including Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Norm Pearce went on to purchase the company and lay the foundation of TMAC’s ‘Active Innovation’ brand promise. This included establishing relationships with international partners considered industry leaders within the Electricity Supply Industry. He also established the company’s original Design & Development capabilities that have delivered innovative and unique technologies to the industry during the 1980’s and beyond. This is what TMAC is now renowned for!

1970s
1970s

Thew & McCann establish a factory in Darwin to support the local electrical utility and community after cyclone Tracy. The company also forms partnerships with overseas manufacturers of tools and equipment.

1980s
1980s

Thew & McCann establishes its in-house design and development program to meet specific customer needs.

Pearce family acquires the Thew & McCann Group nationally.

1990s
1990s

Energy providers close their product development workshops and begin outsourcing product design and development to businesses – like Thew & McCann – with these in-house capabilities.

Thew & McCann establishes an assembly line of ABC fittings (insulated connectors and fittings) for the metropolitan Queensland market and re-locates its head office from Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point to Cleveland.

2000
2000

Thew & McCann enters the Asset Management sector through a new partnership with test and measurement instrument manufacturers.

2010
2010

Thew & McCann’s design and development team recruits new talent to develop reliability and quality supply instruments and demand management technologies for emerging energy markets.

Thew & McCann rebrands to TMAC.

Towards 2020
Towards 2020

TMAC develops innovative technologies for the Future Grid.

2024
2024

Novarc Pacific acquires TMAC Group. The birth of Penta Australia – Hylec/TMAC  begins.