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For those who love a bit of truth and goss ...

Who is behind Arch Shelter?

Splash Marketing is still a registered business, trading and owned by Splash Marketing Technology Pty Ltd since 2010.  Splash sold their first fabric structure in Sydney to Mercedes Benz  (The Sydney Aqua Shell) way back in the 90s.  

Splash Marketing had relocated to Cairns in Queensland to focus on internet marketing, taking another prominent Australian Fabric Structure company to number 1 as a client,  (yes they are from around these parts) until venturing out on our own in 2010.  Splash Business Group Pty Ltd was formed in 2003,  and in 2010 we separated Marketing Technology (Splash Marketing Technology) and Construction Services (Splash Business Group Pty Ltd.)  

We had been expecting a big recovery, until Covid came along.

We have the same office set up with Servcorp in North Sydney (and Brisbane) that we first used when Splash Marketing began it's technical marketing operation in Mosman in 1991.  Offices have moved a few times in 35 years (we tried a couple of others in that time)   - but it is still a handy service as we can operate from the North Sydney/Brisbane premises onsite or virtually from any one of Servcorp's global offices (like Bangkok Singapore, Canada and Japan.)

Yes there is a Splash Marketing sign in the building lobbies too.

Genuinely Recyclable?

Up until now we have been required to use some pretty toxic coated canvas (PVC) and Fiberglass Fire Proof Fabrics, for aircraft hangars and public space event shelters, but only heaven knows what their disposal fate was, or will be, at end of their life.  

We have always had access to some "genuinely recyclable" fabrics designed in Australia, Japan and China,  but not the facilities to recycle ...  neither did the rest of the industry,  but now the industry is pledging responsibility with measures to follow through end of life of covers.  Think this should be a law, they can be big polluters.  

Creating controversy may not be a popular activity, but it  has brought about positive results fast!  The entire industry world wide, although a tad agitated, are now professing their sustainable solutions. 

No Air Ships Will Transpire

We are not associated with any Air Ship initiative, even though we were very passionate for decades to bring about a fleet of lighter than air semi trailers to float around Australia saving our roads - but! after doing the aviation weights and balance calculations, the size of one dirigible would have needed to be 2 km long .75 km wide (more if using helium) to compete with just one semi trailer carrying 50 ton of (6) half full sea containers.  100,000 ships required to replace maybe a quarter of them?  Can you imagine the congestion on a good day?  Sustainable?  No - we don't think so.  The fire proof fabrics available in this time are NOT recyclable and dastardly toxic to destroy. People carriers - maybe, but we should wait until the weather settles down and have developed the safer fabrics - it is possible, but is it sensible?

2017 The Bizarre Year Of The Engineers

We had approached 2 delightful engineering firms to help us with the development of a new range of Australian structures, but you likely remember that year how things were beginning to seriously break down, mostly under regular folks radar.  We still needed to trade, so took on what we thought were honorable Chinese Structures ... Fabric Shelters and Portable Container Houses.

Economies were now collapsing in a domino cycle every 4 years, due to ghastly corrupt global financial systems that were exploding from drug and other fake money being laundered through digital currencies, casinos and the stock markets..  This gathered many dopes unwittingly into this criminal cartel, some very high profile players too,  access to a seemingly unlimited cash flow was suddenly available  ... truthfully we did not know who we were dealing with in the end.  

The exiting Splash Partner took off with a pitch group managed by that Royal Guy who was shamed terribly for being taken in by that USA Guy,  who pretty much set it all up.  One of our Chinese Suppliers still new in the fabric structures business game suddenly gained access to a vast supply of cash from an unknown source in Malaysia, after a Greek Melbourne client snatched the sale and went direct.   (The last time I dealt with her some 5 years before was to order a $250,000 structure, but after paying the deposit I received an email (supposedly) from her asking if we could pay the balance into a different bank account - order was cancelled fortunately, because we discovered their account had been hacked and the new bank account was in Scotland.

That year the shipping industry was being used to ferry around "stuff" and Chinese shipping companies had begun to fall over.  A few African mining companies bought structures but in the end I could not ship confidently, and feeling sorry for them attempted to reimburse, but their money was returned to us by African Banks due to "money laundering" rules.

Thought all was safe with the Engineers though ...

One engineered Prince Harry's Container Shelter (! well thats what we were told) but the other Engineers decided that we had done some sort of runner,  they ended up giving our ideas to a Newcastle outfit.  We had ventured overseas to set up new markets and keep eating, to be greeted in China with a ready built copy of all of our proposed designs on-site  ...   but after the first two arrived in Australia,  they were not up to scratch,  so we did not continue, it became obvious we had been set up  ...  and it was around this time that we also realized a heavy weight female billionaire was somehow covertly involved.  

To this day no idea if we were dealing with friends or foe.  But this website was hacked last week, and they left a calling card - ''2017''.  Like Day Of The Triffids, seriously.

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