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The Good Oil on Kupe
Thursday, 03 April 2008
21 years after the discovery of the Kupe offshore gas field, operator Origin Energy’s project team is moving fast to get the field on-line by mid-2009. The $980 million project requires world-class...
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Leading hand tool range now available in NZ
Thursday, 03 April 2008
SP IS the latest brand of prestige hand tools to hit the New Zealand automotive and engineering industries.
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Doing More with Less
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters is one of the world’s premier aluminium producers. Its continuous business improvement programme not only helped it win the highest honour last year at the prestigious...
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Outperforming the outperformers
Thursday, 03 April 2008
MENTION “3M” – once in a distant past known, almost quaintly now, as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company – and almost every time you are guaranteed a positive response. The company is one...
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Building precision press tools
Thursday, 05 June 2008
MENTION the word toolmaking in industrial circles, and inevitably a name that always crops up is Fairfit. Based in Mangere Auckland, Fairfit has been building press tools to produce precise metal...
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World First Clampless Connector
Thursday, 05 June 2008
THE new BFM fitting is the world’s first “clampless and snap in” connector. Developed and trialled in New Zealand during the past two years, the BFM fitting is a revolutionary advance on the...
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A bounty on low efficiency motors
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
The Electricity Commission recently contracted Energy Associates to launch an electric motors bounty scheme with the aim of providing an incentive to remove low efficiency three-phase motors from New...
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Making sense of MEPS
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
Three phase motors have been subject to MEPS regulations since 2002, and the transition has not always been smooth. SEW-Eurodrive MD Peter Gabites clears up some misunderstandings and has advice for...
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Toastie machine leads to recycling process
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
A KITCHEN experiment has led a Christchurch man to a solution for one of the world’s biggest environmental problems – how to dispose of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag.
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The fast-track to product design
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Want something made to order? With the stereolithography rapid prototyping process, getting a perfect-fit part in hand is as easy transferring a file. Jenny Baker reports.
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Making strong steel even stronger
Thursday, 05 June 2008
Galvanized steel is widely in use in New Zealand, and in a world where optimising energy efficiency is the norm, can hold its own as a sustainable construction and manufacturing material.
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Specialised fastening solutions
Sunday, 03 August 2008
EDL Fasteners is a leading distributor of industrial, construction, engineering and general fasteners, servicing businesses across many sectors for more than 30 years.
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Schneider drive rescues winery
Sunday, 03 August 2008
WHEN an uncooperative variable speed drive posed a potentially disastrous commissioning delay for a new chiller project at a Marlborough vineyard, engineers opted to replace it with a Schneider...
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Debunking the VSD compressor myth
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
WITH many industrial facilities operating around the clock, plant-wide efficiency is a paramount concern. In recent years, the quest to address efficiency in compressed air systems has seen an...
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Durma: Harmony of strength and hi-tech
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
THE amazing success and growth of Durma lies in listening to what customers require and providing quality solutions at the best price.
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