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ABC Tissue High Speed Toilet Roll Packing Machine Upgrade
Client: ABC TissueScope: Comprehensive upgrade of the 8P1 High Speed Toilet Roll Packaging machine, including rewriting machine code and updating SCADATimeframe: 3 months Overview ABC Tissue Products are an Australasian toilet tissue manufacturer with a facility in South Auckland. Brightwater’s Electrical and Automation team were contracted to perform a comprehensive upgrade of an 8P1 High…
Read MoreDaiken PLC K Upgrade
Client: Daiken NZ LtdScope: Upgrade 1771 Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) K and I/O racks for the Line 2 Forming AreaTimeframe: 7 months Overview Medium Density Fibreboard manufacturer Daiken NZ Ltd is a joint venture between two Japanese companies; Daiken Corporation and Itochu Corporation. As part of their continual improvement program, Daiken commissioned Brightwater to undertake…
Read MoreTaudre Vessel Repairs
Client: Nino’s LtdScope: Vessel Maintenance & RepairsTimeframe: Six weeks Overview The Taudre is 220 tonne 29 metre fishing vessel and is the largest of a privately owned supplying fresh chilled fish to the local and export market. Recently the vessel underwent significant repairs on the slip at Port Nelson after an incident at sea where…
Read MoreShip Refuelling Pipelines
Overview In March 2016 Brightwater extended the existing Diesel and Light Fuel Oil pipelines by 200m at Port Nelson to create a new ship refuelling berth. The pipelines had to be run on new piles and slung underneath and existing wharf to the new refuelling berth. Solution Brightwater undertook the detailed piping design including thermal,…
Read MoreHiggins Meremere Plant Upgrade
Client: HigginsScope: Design & Deliver a quarry plant upgradeTimeframe: 4 months Overview Higgins Aggregates supplies over two million tonnes of aggregates per year throughout New Zealand. Their Meremere Quarry located near Te Kauwhata in the Waikato, supplies high PSV aggregates to the road construction industry. In an initiative by the company to drive greater efficiencies,…
Read MoreYashili Water Treatment Plant
Client: Yashili New Zealand Dairy Co., LtdScope: Turnkey Delivery of a greenfield industrial Water Treatment PlantTimeframe: 6 months Overview Yashili is one of the leading infant formula producers in China. In 2014 Yashili developed a 8mt/hour Infant Milk Formula facility in Pokeno, north Waikato. Brightwater was contracted to deliver a potable water plant capable of…
Read MoreWestland Dairy Dryer 7
Client: Evan Jones ConstructionScope: Fabrication & Site ErectionTimeframe: 6 months Overview In 2014 Westland Dairy commissioned the construction of a new purpose built Drier Plant at their Hokitika site in order to meet the increasing international demand for infant formula. The plant was designed to provide an additional 23,000 metric tonnes of nutritional product per…
Read MoreOceana Gold Pontoons
Client: Oceana GoldScope: Design, Manufacture and SupplyTimeframe: 3 Months Overview Oceana Gold’s Macraes open pit mine is located 100 kilometres, north of Dunedin in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Macraes is New Zealand’s largest gold producing operation and has produced over four million ounces of gold. As part of the…
Read MoreTrafalgar Centre Steel Reinforcing
Client: Gibbons ConstructionScope: Fabrication & Site ErectionTimeframe: 6 months Overview The Trafalgar Centre is Nelson’s largest sports, events and entertainment venue with a capacity to hold up to 4000 people. Constructed in the 1970’s, the iconic venue was closed by the Nelson City Council (NCC) in December 2013 when engineering reports identified it as an…
Read MoreBarro Wyndhamvale Quarry Plant
Client: Barro Group Australia PtyScope: Turnkey Delivery of new Greenfield Quarry PlantTimeframe: 18 Months Overview Barro Group are the leading independent, privately owned aggregates and concrete manufacturing company in Australia. Their quarry at Wyndhamvale, 35km south west of Melbourne had been crushing aggregates using mobile equipment. Due to significant local growth in the Wyndhamvale area,…
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