How It All Started

Prior to the establishment of Forever Shining, Allan and Albert were business partners who operated a company supplying engineering services and products to the international fibre cement industry.

Allan's daughter, Nicole, was a vibrant, energetic, artistic, high achieving, talented young woman. She was diagnosed with a serious brain tumour in her fifth year of medical studies and was so determined to become a doctor that she successfully completed her Medical Degree after brain surgery. Many people in similar circumstances would have given up. Nicole successfully completed her internship while battling with a life threatening brain tumour but passed away during her specialist training and studies.

After Nicole's death, Allan and his business partner, Albert realized that conventional monuments were not Nicole's style. Furthermore, they met people who had lost a loved one and, like them, were dissatisfied with the memorials currently available. They realized that there was a need and desire on the part of loved ones for a beautiful, long lasting, stylish alternative from those traditionally available.

Being engineers, Allan and Albert drew upon their knowledge and expertise to produce low maintenance memorials that were modern, structurally sound, long lasting and colourful.

They initially designed a prototype, full size stainless steel monument, complete with patented laser cut inscription and motifs backed by glass which produced vibrant colour. This monument was featured on the New Inventors on ABC Television.

Since that time, much research and development has taken place and the range of products has expanded considerably to include full memorials, headstones, plaques, urns, signs, architectural products and personalized memorabilia of proven long lasting materials such as stainless steel, granite, porcelain, bronze, glass and crystal.