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No more pressing
Wednesday, 07 November 2007
ONE OF the challenges of pressing, forming or clamping sheet metal can be to ensure secure and even grip across the workpiece without time-consuming complexity in setup and release.Re
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Integrated safety for water treatment plant
Monday, 11 February 2008
WHILE the safe, productive interaction between man and machine is becoming increasingly important, the growing complexity of that plant and machinery is making their operation and management more and...
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How to boost productivity by 15 to 80 percenrt
Monday, 11 February 2008
IF somebody told you that you could increase your weekly manufacturing output by 15 to 80 percent without spending more on wages or other overheads, you’d be forgiven for being a little sceptical –...
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Top marks for Topcoat floorings
Sunday, 30 December 2007
WHEN SG Equipment moved into its brand new showroom and warehouse in Takanini over Labour Weekend it moved into a building where a great deal of thought and planning had gone into the flooring...
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Penguins benefit from Kiwi exchangers
Sunday, 09 March 2008
STEELFORT Engineering in Palmerston North recently completed a large specialised job lot of stainless steel heat exchangers for the Melbourne Aquarium. 
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Machineryhouse fills market gap
Monday, 11 February 2008
AUSTRALIA’s largest distributor of workshop tool accessories and metalworking and woodworking machines has crossed the Tasman to deliver a better deal to New Zealand’s engineers, manufacturers and...
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Fish Farm begins staged expansion
Sunday, 09 March 2008
OFFICIALLY opened by the Prime Minister on February 14th, New Zealand King Salmon Co’s new Clay Point fish farm in the Marlborough Sounds’ Tory Channel is expected to lift the company’s output by up...
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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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