Forgacs Marine and Defence

Forgacs Marine and Defence Pty Ltd
Formerly	Forgacs Group
Company type	Proprietary company
Industry	Maritime engineering
Founder	Stephen Forgacs
Headquarters	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Ship building; Ship repair; Heavy engineering
Number of employees	1000
Parent	Civmec
Website	www.forgacs.com.au

Forgacs Marine and Defence, previously Forgacs Group and also simply known as Forgacs, is a major Australian engineering and shipbuilding company. It has facilities in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane and Gladstone. The company employs approximately 1000 people.^{[citation needed]}

Forgacs Group acquired Ullman Engineering in 1962. Following this, in 1987, it acquired the Newcastle Floating Dock.^[1]

Shipbuilder Carrington Slipways was acquired in 1997, followed by the Cairncross Dockyard facilities in Brisbane in 1999.^[1] Cairncross is used for commercial ship repair and includes one of the largest graving docks in Australasia.^[2] 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 landing platform amphibious (LPA) ships, following their purchase from the United States Navy. Forgacs constructed hull blocks for the Anzac-class frigate and in 2009 they were contracted to build 30 hull blocks for the Hobart-class destroyer being constructed in Adelaide for the Royal Australian Navy.^[3]

The company's facilities at the Cairncross Dockyard closed in 2014.^[4] On 17 November 2015, Civmec announced that it would acquire Forgacs.^[5] Civmec completed the acquisition of Forgacs Group on 2 February 2016^[6] and renamed it Forgacs Marine and Defence.