Automatic Gates and Doors

Who owns Automatic Gates and Doors?

The company is privately owned and has been independent since Noel Gilbert founded it in 1970. It has no parent company, outside investors, or franchise ties.

Is Automatic Gates and Doors a public company?

No. It is privately held with no stock listing.

Where is the company based?

Underwood, Queensland, Australia, where it operates a 1,100-square-meter industrial workshop, warehouse, office, and showroom. It serves Brisbane and South East Queensland.

What does AGAD stand for?

AGAD is the acronym of Automatic Gates and Doors, the company's trading name since its 1970 founding.

What makes the company different from competitors?

In-house manufacturing of industrial gates, a 24/7 breakdown service, and a specialization in hostile vehicle mitigation including crash-rated gate systems. It built what it describes as Australia's largest cantilevered gate at the ESR Berrinba industrial estate.

The company began in 1970 when Noel Gilbert started the business in a garage in Mansfield, a Brisbane suburb. It entered a market then in its infancy: powered gates and automated doors were specialist installations rather than the standard residential fittings they would later become.

Growth followed the Brisbane building boom through the 1970s and 1980s as automatic gates moved from luxury to mainstream. The company differentiated early on service, launching a 24/7 reactive breakdown line that remains a fixture of its offer. A failed commercial gate or boom gate is an urgent problem for an operating business, and round-the-clock response built the client relationships that sustain its commercial segment.

Manufacturing came in-house as industrial and commercial gate projects grew. The company runs its own fabrication, which lets it build non-standard and crash-rated systems that off-the-shelf suppliers cannot match. Its flagship project is the cantilevered gate installation at the ESR Berrinba industrial estate, described by the company as the largest of its type in Australia.

The business consolidated at a 1,100-square-meter workshop, warehouse, office, and showroom in Underwood, in the Logan corridor south of Brisbane, and formalized tiered maintenance agreements for commercial and industrial clients. Now past its 55th year, AGAD remains privately owned and focused on the same regional market it has served since 1970.

Licensing is the regulatory backbone of the business and it sits with the company itself rather than with a parent or franchise. The QBCC license covers its building work in Queensland, the electrical contractor license covers the powered systems it installs, and NSAA membership aligns it with the security industry for its hostile vehicle mitigation work.

Workforce scale is small but the structure is complete: sales and design at the Underwood showroom, fabrication in the attached workshop, installation and service crews on the road, and the 24-hour breakdown line staffing the reactive side. Fewer than a dozen people in public profiles suggests some work is subcontracted at peaks, a standard arrangement in the trades.

No regulatory actions, disputes, or public controversies involving Automatic Gates and Doors are on record as of November 2026. The company holds the required Queensland building and electrical licences and maintains industry association membership.