Brigadier Walter Edmond Smith, MC & Bar, ED founded engineering firm W.E. SMITH MARINE AND GENERAL ENGINEER in 1922, the company was the precursor of  NORTHFIELD GROUP

W.E. SMITH changed its name to W.E. SMITH ENGINEERING and started building equipment for the Bonnerong Power Station in Sydney, becoming the largest manufacturer of boilers in Australia

W.E. SMITH started supplying piping, crushers, washers and other equipment to  Mount Lyell Mining and other mining companies in the Pacific, South America and South-East Asia

W.E. Smith participates in British Empire's war effort in the Pacific, maintaining and repairing vessels for the Australian Royal Navy at Cockatoo Island Repair Yard

W.E. Smith Engineering keep growing internationally supplying processing equipment as far afield as to Saudi Arabia, Peru and West Africa, becoming Australia's largest engineering company 

W.E. Smith moves its main fabrication yard to a 23 acres plant located in Coffs Harbour. The yard was lauded as one of the most modern and efficient in the world by Engineering Digest  USA 

The Mundim Frères found TELCON TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS ET INFORMATIQUE SRL in France and started trading telecommunications and Oil&Gas equipment in South America and Africa.

Carlos Mundim  opens TELCON TELECOMMUNICATIONS (PTY) LTD supplying public phones and trunking equipment to Telcos in Southern African countries and SCADA systems to E&P oil companies

TELCON moves into trading, procuring fuel from the Caribbean and North America and supplying government and private companies and mines across West and Southern Africa

NORTHFIELD GLOBAL LTD was incorporated as a commodity company in Singapore focusing on marketing petroleum products and LPG across South-East Asia

NORTHFIELD  started trading spot cargoes of LNG and condensate from South-East Asia to clients in Europe and East Asia and distributing urea and ammonia to African countries

NORTHFIELD's control is acquired by the Mundim & Van Niekerk Investment Fund and the company is amalgamated with TELCON GROUP PTY LTD, PT HYDRO INDONESIA and HYDROSING PTE LTD.

NORTHFIELD acquires KPL Australia, the holding for W.E. SMITH and HEAT EXCHANGE AUSTRALIA and  PT HEAT EXCHANGE INDONESIA making a move into the engineering sector

NORTHFIELD sells its engineering assets and acquires Swiss trading MY TERRA SA to house its  LNG and base metal business. TWOGEES LTD is incorporated as an agricultural origination and trading focusing on the South American, African and South-East Asian markets

NORTHFIELD and the PUSAKA CAPITAL signed an MoU to create ZEBU CATTLE SDN BHD, the largest integrated cattle farming project in Asia, envisioning the processing of 3,000 cattle a day from its plant in Sarawak, Malaysia