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They are the all-familiar signs seen across the state’s public transport system.
And most of them are produced right here in the Hunter.
Carrington business Hi-Vis Group produces more than 80,000 decals for NSW public transport each year.
It began its latest project of installing exterior and interior decals on the Newcastle light rail fleet earlier this week.
When the tram rolled out on Wednesday, it was lined with “Tram in testing” decals produced on the other side of Newcastle Harbour.
Hi-Vis Group will install more than 220 decals on each of the city’s six trams in coming months. There are 19 types of decals for the fleet.
Director Simon Watson said the light rail contract added to a long list of public transport projects.
“We’ve built a rapport with Transport [for NSW] for 15 or 20 years,” he said.
“Originally it was state rail authority in the late ‘80s and then every train set since then we’ve been doing the stickers.
“Now with Downer, with the Sydney Growth Train Project of 24 trains, we’ve got the work to do the re-branding, decals and application.
“We’ve done all the ferries in Sydney, the buses, trains. Transport is 20 per cent of our business.”
Mr Watson, who runs Hi-Vis Group with his brother Brett, showed the Newcastle Herald through the Carrington factory on Thursday.
The business produces an array of products, including commercial signage, decals, street signs and safety products for a diverse range of industries.
“The basis of the company, it was a sign-writing company,” he said.
“Our dad, he sign wrote trucks out the back of a little shed in Garden Suburb which he started in 1959.
“But it’s certainly been the last six or seven years we’ve really grown.”
Hi-Vis Group employ about 65 people across their operations.
They have supplied signage to Roads and Maritime Services since 1993 and produce more than 60,000 square metres of signage for RMS each year.
The company estimates up to 40 per cent of the state’s road signs have been produced out of Carrington.