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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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