QUEENSLAND-BASED plant and equipment-hire search platform PlantMiner.com.au is confident of expanding its international footprint, already recording a 113 per cent month-on-month revenue increase for 2015.
The business, which connects plant and equipment-hire searchers with hire companies through its online portal, moved into New Zealand in December before opening an office in the Philippines in January.
PlantMiner general manager Dan Wilson said the company had secured $60 million of hire work for plant-hire companies since launching the website in May 2013, bolstered by $6.6 million of confirmed transactions in January 2015 alone.
"We've had some really significant success in Australia, receiving staggering interest from the plant and equipment hire industry and the mining and construction industries as a whole," said Mr Wilson, who was raised on a mixed cropping and grazing property, Wilgunya, near Dirranbandi in the state's south-west.
He said the expansion into New Zealand was encouraged by demand from their established Australian client base also operating across the Tasman.
"Since opening [in NZ] we've had some of the biggest contractors including Downer, Leighton and Fulton Hogan utilising the service again which is exciting, as well as New Zealand's leading hire companies like Gough CAT jumping on board as a client straight away."
Now, the ambitious 26-year-old said all things were "pointing to go-time" for further expanding abroad and further accelerating the growth of the team in Australia.
"Our aim is to really be a global leader in the online space, specifically focusing on the mining construction industries.
"We've been successful because we're simplifying processes that have been problems for a number of years."
"I was heavily involved in sales and business development."
Although Mr Wilson now lives in Brisbane, he says regional Australia is "still pretty close to heart".
His parents Max and Heather Wilson continue to operate Wilgunya Merino Stud, joined by his older brother Benn and wife Karena.
As such, Dan Wilson said he was pleased the website provided equal opportunity for companies of every size to procure work.
"We don't discriminate; we allow smaller companies to compete on a larger scale because the website ranks search results based on proximity of item to the searcher's job location."
The up-and-coming business tycoon has been on-board with the business ever since PlantMiner CEO Michael Trusler saw a void in the industry, while working as a civil engineer at coal mines in central Queensland.
Wilson and Trusler had developed a strong friendship when they attended secondary schooling together at St Joseph's Nudgee College in Brisbane.
"I was heavily involved in sales and business development. I was with an industrial real estate company at the time.
"[Trusler] approached me and said here is my idea - do you reckon you can sell it? I said, I can sell anything."
On September 24, 2012, the duo started contacting Australian hire companies to sell their idea and by Christmas had collectively made an estimated 20,000 phone calls.
"We had no website then, just an idea.
"But the hire companies got on board from the start. They could see the industry really need it to bring it forward a few years, rapidly."
Over the next two years they would see PlantMiner grow to impressive heights.
PlantMiner has 424,000 items for hire from 2500 different suppliers.
An item is requested for hire every minute and more than 8700 quotes have been submitted so far.
PlantMiner's high-growth also earned it recognition as one of 12 'rising stars' in the Deloitte Australian Technology Fast 50 program last year, an award for companies with less than three years' existing revenue data.
"It was always something we knew that was going to go and go quickly...
PlantMiner's growth of 889pc secured the spot of highest ranking Queensland company on the list, according to Deloitte's 2014 index.
Mr Wilson said they had no plans to slow down soon.
Yesterday seven more new recruits stepped into PlantMiner's growing offices, bringing company staff numbers to 63.
They've had to move their Brisbane office five times to accommodate.
When asked whether he expected the company to expand as rapidly as it had, Mr Wilson's own high expectations were admittedly surpassed.
"It was always something we knew that was going to go and go quickly, in that growth path, but we never thought it would explode as quickly as it has.
"We've always set really ambitious business goals, but have never missed one - which really speaks for the business and culture built."