Research & Development (R&D) Flags

We product tested our flags at 3500 metres when a parachutist jumped from a plane landing in Sydney's Darling Harbour for celebrations during Australia Day 1988. The flag was handed to Dawn Fraser, taking it ashore to be raised.

We tested flags again at 10,500 metres in France, 1991. The parachutists were raising funds for a local community group.

Cold Flags

SCV supplied flags to The Antarctic expedition, who took the flags and flew them in –55°C.

The Australian School of Mountaineering Expedition recently flew a flag on their world hike at –50°C.

Highest Flags

The Returned Serviceman's League expedition placed our flag on top of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest with a wind factor of 120 kilometres per hour and at –45°C.

Fast Flags

SCV manufactured and supplied an Australian Naval Ensign (white), which was suspended under the Royal Australian Navy helicopter when it flew over Sydney Harbour in 1987 at 80km/h.

Largest Flag

World record held for an Australian flag supplied by Southern Cross for the Winfield Cup Grand Final measuring a whopping 92 x 46 metres.

SCV also assisted in the design of the Sydney Olympic opening ceremony flag which measured 150 x 75 metres in 2000.

Official Flag

Supplied for the opening ceremony of the New Parliament House, Canberra, on May 9th 1988, attended by the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

SCV supplied the Olympic Rings Flag for the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, on September 17, 2000, watched by half the world.

Secretive Flags

On Sunday September 15th 1996, the new Sydney 2000 Olympic Games logo was launched at Darling Harbour in Sydney. We supplied the flags for this and the Para Olympic launch and were sworn to secrecy for nearly 6 months prior to the event. The difficulty was to remain quiet until after the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, where SCV supplied over 2400 flags, 180 flagpoles, installed 5800 banners and placed signage keeping our installers busy for 2 months.

Largest Billboard

We've registered our entry for the largest fabric Billboard in the world. It was placed in Perth and measured 25x15 metres in September 2001. The banner was manufactured in house utilising digital printing and a combination of appliquéd methods. In other words the latest and the oldest technology combined to produce what we believe will be another World record.

Uniquely Printed Flags/Banners

2002, City of Sydney Council approached SCV to produce 500 flags to contain 25 separate designs. Each of the designs was to be a winning entrant in the "ART ABOUT" festival. Each of the artist's designs required the image be adapted to the fabric and printing method individually. It also pushed the boundaries of printing. Designs were created on the fly; for example, we utilised a typical broom, coated this in paint, and swished it across the screens to the creative design "life". In other instances, the fabric was printed with colour overlays to produce an unusual effect. Some artists even signed their names on the finished articles.