Established Tree Transplanters Pty. Ltd., an Australian owned family company, was established in 1973 originally for the transplanting of mature trees to new suburban gardens in Melbourne. These trees were selected from nurseries in the Dandenongs and old established gardens. During the early stages of the company the trees were all dug by hand and the lifting and moving was achieved with the use of Newman Tree Moving frames and trailers. This process allowed one tree at a time to be relocated. With improvements three Newman trailers could be attached together to move three trees at any one time.

After 12 months of operation, the demand for mature trees led ETT to establish its first nursery on 3 acres of leased land, growing selected species suitable for street tree planting.

Over the years ETT has expanded the tree growing operation with 200 hectares of trees under production and over 50,000 advanced trees for sale at any one time. The tree range covers ornamental, deciduous and evergreen trees both balled and burlapped or containerised, and containerised natives and palms.

Today trees are dug out of the ground with mechanical tree spades and shipped Australiawide on semi-trailers equipped with cranes, 100 (3.5M) trees per load.