Australian Certified Winches is a privately owned company located on the Gold Coast, Australia.

The owner and manager, Mr Grant Barrett, started working with winches as a first year apprentice fitter and turner at Jaden Engineering in the early 90’s and carried through to operations manager after 17 years. Jaden Engineering designed and manufactured heavy industrial and marine winches and were hydraulic and general engineers.

The following 4 years were spent in the hydraulics industry as manager of Berendsen service department and then 4 years designing and manufacturing custom winches for HES Winches.

Following his passion for custom made winches and machinery, Grant started Australian Certified Winches to focus on supplying Quality Australian manufactured products delivered with all the required documentation and certifications.