Diverse Tank Engineering (DTE) Group has been on the ball when it comes to supporting their favourite football team – the Fremantle Dockers – since 2005.

In 2013, the company will literally be ‘on the ball’ after signing on as Freo’s major ball sponsor for home games and training.

That means every time Matthew Pavlich takes a mark at Patersons Stadium or Nat Fyfe kicks a footy at Fremantle Oval, DTE’s logo will be right there with them.

Suppliers of storage tanks and fluid-handling solutions in the petroleum, chemical, industrial, power, process and mining industries, DTE joined one of Freo’s corporate dining rooms, the ‘Dockers Den’, in 2005 and has been on board ever since.

An official club partner since 2010, DTE has had representatives on every Freo corporate trip since 2007 and have been Hayden Ballantyne’s player sponsor since 2011.

Managing directors and brothers, Dino and Gino Ziccardi, were at the club’s 2013 team photo shoot, where they caught up with their man, Ballantyne.

Gino said being the ball sponsor for the club offered their business brilliant exposure, but that wasn’t the reason DTE jumped on board.

“Fremantle’s in our blood, we’re born and bred,” he said. “We did this because of our love of the game and the club.”

“We’re hoping for great things for this club and we’re just happy to be a part of it,” added Dino.

The brothers are also hopeful the DTE logo remains on television screens around the country until deep into September this year.

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