Our production team uses the latest software to create detailed, 3D, CAD drawings to assist during the development and modification of our coffin and casket designs.
This software allows our designers to create products that are:
the highest quality;
most up-to-date designs;
structurally sound; and
efficient to manufacture.
These technical drawings also allow our robotic CNC machines to be programmed from the software to produce precise components, such as intricately detailed patterns on sides, lids and ends. 3D drawings also hasten the development time from initial product concept to full production output.
Come and see how it’s all done
Funeral Directors are always welcome to schedule a tour through our facility to see our production process. Just call us when you are next coming to the Gold Coast and we will be happy to show you (or your team) through our factory.
With floodwaters crippling much of Penang, Malaysia, daily life has ground to a halt for most residents.
But for one family trying to give a relative a final send-off, there was little choice but to improvise and use a small boat to ferry the casket through the flooded streets to the funeral home.
Market researchers IBISWorld have just released their 2017 report titled: Funeral Directors, Crematoria and Cemeteries in Australia: Market Research Report.
Some of the key findings include:
Industry Threats & Opportunities
Industry operators have been promoting more personalised services to increase revenue
Industry players have been offering more value-added services to try to boost profitability
Burial fees are forecast to increase, as space restrictions limit supply in many cemeteries
Industry Analysis & Industry Trends
The financial performance of the Funeral Directors, Crematoria and Cemeteries industry is strongly influenced by the number of deaths in Australia each year. Medical advances, higher living standards and improved attitudes to health have helped lift the average life expectancy, slowing death-rate growth. However, rising costs for burials due to space restrictions over the past five years have prompted industry revenue to grow at a faster rate than the number of deaths, as well as encouraging a shift towards cremation. The increasing popularity of cremations has stifled industry revenue growth, as cremations typically generate less revenue per service.
Industry Report – Industry Analysis Chapter
Revenue for the Funeral Directors, Crematoria and Cemeteries industry is expected to grow steadily over the five years through 2017-18, due to rising numbers of deaths and higher household disposable incomes. However, funeral preferences have been changing over the past five years, constraining the industry’s pace of expansion, as input costs have risen and consumers have increasingly chosen cremations or basic funeral packages over more expensive burial options. Overall, industry revenue is projected to rise at an annualised 1.6% over the five years through 2017-18, to $1.1 billion. This includes a 1.7% increase in 2017-18 as the death rate rises close to its long-term average and greater numbers of cremation funerals constrain revenue growth.
Additional Insights for the Funeral Directors, Crematoria and Cemeteries Industry
The report identifies 250 Key Success Factors for a business for the Funeral Directors, Crematoria and Cemeteries Industry, being:
Access to the necessary amount of land/type of property
Having a good reputation
Membership of an industry organisation
The report also discusses how external factors such as number of deaths and Church attendance in the Funeral Directors, Crematoria and Cemeteries industry impact industry performance.
The full report is available for purchase from the IBISWorld website.
A tiny Spanish village of Las Nieves annually hosts the bizarre Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme.
The festival is dedicated to those fortunate enough to have managed to cheat death and is known as the Festival of Near Death Experiences.
Those that take part are carried through open coffins and caskets through the town and have at some point during the year survived an event or illness that could, and according to them should, have killed them.
The procession of family and friends of the ‘celebrants’ makes its way through the streets of the town where they have to carry their ‘escapee’ in his or her own coffin. Even more surreal is the vision of those in the parade without family or friends who struggle along carrying their own coffin.
This unusual yet popular fiesta is considered by some international media as among the weirdest festivities in the world and is dedicated to Saint Marta de Ribarteme, allegedly the sister of Lazarus – who rose from the dead.
The event is taken very seriously by those involved, and church bells ring out with solemnity throughout the parade.
As of the 31st March 2025, Ashton's Head Office QLD will be changing office hours to the following: Monday - Thursday 8am - 4:30pm, Friday - 8am - 2:30pm
