Industrials

IPD Group (ASX:IPG) has developed into one of the ASX small-cap industrial companies with meaningful exposure to electrification and data-centre investment. The distributor of electrical equipment — including switchgear, circuit protection, power monitoring and related products — sits in the path of structural demand …

Korvest (ASX:KOV) is one of the ASX’s smaller industrial names, but it has exposure to some of the market’s most closely watched demand themes — data centres, infrastructure andMiningservices — through relatively specialised products such as cable and pipe support systems and hot-dip galvanising.

Silex Systems (ASX:SLX) is arguably one of the most distinctive nuclear-fuel exposures on the ASX. The company is commercialising its SILEX laser uranium enrichment technology, a third-generation enrichment process being developed primarily through Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), a joint venture involving Silex and Cameco.

Saunders International (ASX:SND) occupies an unglamorous but strategically useful corner of the Australian market: building and maintaining the fuel-storage tanks, bridges and industrial infrastructure that governments and energy companies rely on. As a contractor exposed to defence, fuel security and civil works, the company …

Lindsay Australia (ASX:LAU) is not a household name, but the integrated transport, logistics and rural supply group has quietly built a business tied to one of the most defensive parts of the economy: moving and supplying Australian agriculture. That positioning, combined with recent insider …

Acrow (ASX:ACF) Limited has spent the past few years quietly building itself into one of the larger listed players in Australian industrial hire, and the stock has drawn renewed attention as the country’s infrastructure and construction pipelines keep it busy. The Sydney-based group hires …

Duratec (ASX:DUR) Limited is not a household name, but the Western Australian engineering-services group has built a steadily growing business in a niche that is easy to overlook: assessing, protecting, remediating and refurbishing ageing assets. Its work spans defence facilities, infrastructure,Miningand industrial sites and …