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Interview With Bourke Grundy
Can you give us a brief history of
your company?
MacDev was started in 1969 in Sydney, as an engineering solutions company. The business prospered supplying problem solving solutions to
government infrastructure, military,
aviation and university research. In
1995 MacDev began designing solutions for paintball air systems, and
designing parts for increased marker
performance. In 2003, MacDev assembled all of these upgrades into
the first completely MacDev manufactured gun, the Cyborg. Since that
time, MacDev have expanded the
range to a number of paintball guns
and barrels.
When approached in 1995 to develop
parts for paintball, or designers went
to the field and began playing. As
everyone knows, once you start playing, its an adrenaline rush you cannot
set aside. MacDev designers James
and Bourke joined the pro circuit in
Australia playing at the highest level
between 2001 and 2007.

and the Shift 2 barrel will also be out
soon. Our research department do
not really like talking about what is
coming up though, because we feel
that the best products are those that
we develop in our own time. However,
MacDev has one of the most active
research and development departments in the industry so you can
bank on new, innovative products at a
steady rate.
What are your goals for 2014 and
beyond?
In 2014, our goal is to prove to our
customers that through our San Francisco based office, we can provide
a superior level of service for the
world’s largest paintball market - the
United States. We have a long term
goal to achieve the market recognition in the USA that we already enjoy
in Australia and Europe.

Anything else you’d like to add?
One thing that we think people should
understand about MacDev, is that it
is a technology based company. More
resources are pushed into research
What was the best part of teh PBX and development than any other area
for you?
of the company. You can see this in
We presented the Cyborg 6 protothe company footprint of advertising
type at the Extravaganza, which has
and team sponsorship, it’s quite low
allowed us to communicate directly
compared to other companies. Howwith dealers and receive their overever, if you want to own a product
whelmingly positive feedback. It was
that has been carefully engineered,
a great opportunity for our USA based and designed for the enjoyment of
sales team to present our philosophy
use on the paintball field, you should
to the dealers and help them to unconsider a MacDev product.
derstand our company. This was absolutely crucial, because the Cyborg
www.MacDev.net
6 is so jam packed with new and innovative features, it must be demonstrated in person to be fully appreciated.
Anything new in the works that
you can tell us about?
The Cyborg 6 is as new as it gets,
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