Chris Heyring and his wife Anny arrived in Australia with their two daughters in 1975 where they both took up lecturing posts at the Department of Art and Design at Curtin University. After five years they started Tensile Structures, designing and building highly innovative exhibition structures, unique corporate tents and special architectural tension roof systems.
In 1986, the Heyrings moved to Dunsborough in the south west of WA and employed up to 27 employees satisfying contracts throughout Australia. In 1989, Mr Heyring filed the two original main patents for Kinetic Pty Ltd. Together, they converted the first Kinetic prototype on their verandah and after gaining some vehicle prototyping contracts with Jeep, Land-Rover and Mercedes, they grew the company and employed 15 engineers and technicians. Over the next decade, Mr Heyring and the Kinetic team converted over 30 secret prototypes for all the major vehicle manufacturers in their workshop and also overseas at the vehicle manufacturers R&D facilities in England, America, Germany, Japan and France. Between 1989 to 2000, the company lodged 24 families of patents relating to novel inventions for the suspension systems for cars, SUVs and trucks. They also converted special vehicles for the MOD and SAS in UK and Australia. The Kinetic suspension technology is now factory fitted as standard equipment in various Toyota 4x4s, Nissan Patrols and the acclaimed McLaren MP4-12c and P1 super sports cars. Kinetic became involved in the Dakar (Mitsubishi) and WRC (Citroen) rallies and Kinetic cars blitzed both events for 3 years until the technology was banned for providing exclusive benefits to Mitsubishi and Citroen teams. Kinetic was sold to Automotive parts giant "Tenneco Automotive" for $51 million in 2000 and after consulting to Tenneco for a couple of years, Mr Heyring started up another new company Nauti-Craft which has built up a new IP portfolio of five new international patents families dating back to 2002.
In 2011, Nauti-Craft entered a competition held by the Carbon Trust and has since won four successive contracts to develop suspension technology for boats accessing wind farms in the North Sea.
