We are looking at hold downs for secondhand tanks.These tanks will hold tallow and are approx. 4m dia. x 8-10m high.Our current design does not meet the new seismic standard.Anyone have ideas, recommendations?Needs to meed the code for the vertical up thrust and rolling EQ's. Allow tallow is quite a heavy viscosity it does have a slopping affect with EQ'skene
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Auckland Airport has been recognised for its commitment to employing and developing young Aucklanders at the annual ‘Young at Heart’ Youth Employer Pledge Awards.
In the past year Auckland Airport has directly employed almost 50 young people and through Ara, the airport’s jobs and skills hub, connected many more to full-time employment with companies working on the airport’s 30-year development programme.
Anna Cassels-Brown, Auckland Airport’s general manager – people and safety, says, “We’re thrilled to be recognised and so very proud to be playing a part in helping young Aucklanders into jobs and careers. There are so many talented, motivated young people in Auckland and they’re the city’s future workforce. Everyone benefits, including businesses like ours, when we give them opportunities to work and build their skills.”
The airport has won the Industry Leadership Award for launching Ara and the School Engagement and Work Experience Award for its work with students and teachers in local schools. The Young at Heart Awards recognise the efforts of businesses like Auckland Airport that have signed the Auckland Council’s Youth Employer Pledge and are making a commitment to employ Auckland’s young talent to grow their workforce and business.
Ms Cassels-Brown says that helping young people into employment and careers is a partnership.
“We value the support we’ve had in the past year from the team at Ara, our airport jobs and skill hub, from local schools, businesses located at the airport, government agencies, training providers and the South Auckland community.”
“This award recognises that we’ve put a good foundation in place and we’ll be building on that in coming years to help more young Aucklanders into careers at and around the airport.”
The airport is working with 15 South Auckland secondary schools to prepare students for work, offering work experience, careers seminars and scholarships to support students’ tertiary study. In July the airport awarded 19 South Auckland teachers scholarships to fund their professional development.
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced the High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge is investing $3 million in its Consumer Insights and Science of Food research programmes.
“The research into high-value nutrition is hugely important in moving our food production from volume to value”, Mr Joyce says. “These projects will help product development that brings maximum returns for New Zealand food exporters.”
The Consumer Insights research programme is focused on understanding consumers’ beliefs, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours.
“Up to $1.5 million has been allocated to research the science of consumers, with a focus on health and wellness needs of Asian consumers. It will research what is needed to establish a habitual consumption of high-value nutritional foods, which is vital in ensuring investment is directed in areas that will resonate most with consumers.
“The completed first phase of this work studied the information currently available to New Zealand businesses, and their knowledge gaps in understanding consumers’ needs and behaviours.”
This programme will provide direction to clinical research supporting the development of high-value foods and beverages for Asian markets. Companies will also get better information on how to market their products to demonstrate how they meet the needs of consumers.
“The Science of Food research programme will also receive $1.5 million to address the technological challenges in protecting the health promoting compounds (‘bioactives’) in food during the journey from raw ingredients to finished food products, through to digestion,” Mr Joyce says.
The team will design ingredients and processes that keep those bioactives in top condition within food products, so that when eaten, the bioactives are released to the body at the right stage of digestion needed to deliver their identified health benefits.
The Consumer Insights research programme is led by Dr Roger Harker of Plant and Food Research, and is a collaboration between Plant and Food Research, the University of Auckland, the University of Otago, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Trace Research.
The Science of Food research programme is led by Distinguished Professor Harjinder Singh, co-Director of the Riddet Institute at Massey University, and involves experts from Massey University, the University of Otago, the Cawthron Institute, AgResearch and the Israel Institute of Technology.
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce has announced that applications are now open for the 2017 Endeavour Fund with a series of roadshows to be held this week for potential applicants.
“The Endeavour Fund is New Zealand’s biggest contestable scientific research fund”, Mr Joyce says. “$209 million in research funding was allocated in the just-completed 2016 round, and a similar amount will be invested in the 2017 round.
“The Endeavour Fund invests in excellent research that has potential to positively transform our economic performance, create environmental sustainability and integrity, and help New Zealand society.
“The roadshow sessions being run by MBIE are a great opportunity to provide potential applicants with the information they need to complete applications that demonstrate the impact and excellence in their research.”
The Endeavour Fund, previously known as the MBIE Contestable Science Fund, is one of the Government’s main mission-led science investments. The National Statement of Science Investment (NSSI), published late in 2015, set a ten year strategic direction for the science and innovation system, including a review and refresh of the Contestable Fund (Endeavour Fund). The Fund was renamed as the Endeavour Fund in 2016 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Captain Cook’s landmark scientific voyage to New Zealand.
The change of name reflects its mission to support transformational research, science or technology and to give effect to the Vision Mātauranga policy.
There are two routes for applying for the funding: Smart Ideas and Research.
· Smart Ideas – Generating Ideas. Fast-fail support to catalyse and rapidly test promising, innovative research ideas with high potential for benefit to New Zealand.
· Research Programmes – Developing Ideas. Supports the development of ambitious, excellent, well-defined research ideas which, collectively, have credible and high potential to positively transform New Zealand’s future in areas of future value, growth or critical need.
“The Endeavour Fund provides the opportunity to invest in ideas that will positively benefit New Zealand. The priorities that are signalled through the Investment Plan demonstrate the economic, environmental or social objectives and give flexibility to our applicants and to those assessing application and deciding on funding,” Mr Joyce says
An innovative carpet embedded with LED lighting by a Massey University textiles professor will be shown during the 15th Venice Art and Architecture Biennale.
Associate Professor Sandy Heffernan from Massey’s School of Design in Wellington undertakes innovative textile and technology collaborations that have included new yarn developments and sustainable dyeing innovations.
She came across raw wool contaminated with a high level of vegetable matter and wanted to show that it could be turned into something beautiful. Once off the sheep’s back, wool is checked for vegetable matter, which is then eliminated through processes such as carding.
“I used yarn which would have been sold for $2/kg and chopped up for insulation - it’s good to show that it can be used. We will need to use more wool in the future as there is more restraint on the production of petro-chemical fibres,” she says.
Dr Heffernan’s Sunwinelimeberry carpet (8m x 1.2m) is on its way to Venice where it will be shown in the Future Landscapes Exhibition at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi from October 6 to November 27 during the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.
The raw wool used for Sunwinelimeberry was sourced from one location, then commercially dyed by WoolYarns Ltd in Wellington and tufted by John Wyma at Carpets and Rugs of New Zealand. Dr Heffernan devised a system to embed LED motion sensitive lighting which lights a pathway as people walk on the carpet.
“In Sunwinelimeberry I explored territory and the language of rivers in the context of better living in the future,” she says.
During a busy period of travel in Europe that recently included a six-week residency at Contextile 2016 in Portugal, Dr Heffernan will return to Italy at the end of November as a guest of the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO). “They have invited me to their next round table in Biella, Northern Italy and we will be looking at the delivery of post-graduate on-line courses focusing on wool,” she says.
Some of Dr Heffernan’s former School of Design postgraduate students worked with the industry in ‘blue sky’ research to find new applications for strong and merino wools.
New Zealand has helped make history today by ratifying the Paris Agreement, Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett says.
“By ratifying today, we are helping to get the Paris Agreement officially over the line, and demonstrated our commitment to global action on climate change.
“Although New Zealand contributes only a small proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, the early timing of our ratification enables us to join the group of countries that make up 55 per cent of global emissions - the minimum needed to get this agreement across the line. Our contribution counts.
“A significant benefit of the Government ratifying early is that it guarantees New Zealand a seat at the decision-making table on matters that affect the Paris Agreement at the next United Nations climate change meeting in Marrakech in November, which I look forward to attending,” Mrs Bennett says.
Mrs Bennett says the Paris Agreement is a comprehensive and durable international agreement, and New Zealand is committed to playing its part in keeping global temperature rise well below 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C.
“I’d like to thank the select committee and my parliamentary colleagues for the cross-party support of New Zealand’s involvement in this significant agreement.
“New Zealand’s big challenge now is to develop an effective plan for meeting our target of reducing our emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, Mrs Bennett says.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully will travel to Brussels this week for the signing of a new partnership agreement with the European Union and to attend a conference on the future of Afghanistan.
“The Partnership Agreement on Relations and Cooperation (PARC) commits the EU and NZ to co-operation and dialogue across a broad range of issues,” Mr McCully says.
“The PARC represents a significant step forward in New Zealand’s relationship with the EU and it is the precursor to a free trade agreement.”
Minister McCully will also attend the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan which brings together representatives from up to 70 countries to discuss the Government of Afghanistan’s plans for peace-building, development, and reform.
“The Brussels Conference is expected to focus on increasing the effectiveness of international support to Afghanistan and regional efforts to support peace and cross-border economic cooperation,” Mr McCully says.
Wellington property developer Ian Cassels has unveiled plans to build six relocatable apartments on council-owned land in Porirua. The modular 72m2 two-bedroomed units will be prefabricated in a local factory, trucked to the site and bolted together in blocks three units high.
Cassels, director of The Wellington Company, says the venture will be the first step in his innovative $75 million CitiBlox housing concept, which aims to help solve the country’s chronic shortage of social and affordable homes. The unique units can be disconnected and removed from their location, allowing temporary use of vacant land that is unavailable for permanent structures, such as Crown-owned land set aside for future rail or road corridors. “There is a shortage of well-priced land for building houses in New Zealand’s cities, so this is about using land in a different way,” he says.
The Wellington Company hopes to build its first CitiBlox units on a former car park near Porirua’s train station. Cassels aims to have six units on site and ready to rent by mid-next year. Each unit will rent for about $300 to $400 a week. He has started talks with the Government about a partnership to temporarily place 2000 CitiBlox apartments on vacant Crown land in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. “The Government and local authorities are sitting on massive amounts of land,” he says. Much of it is stockpiled for future use, which may be decades away. “If you can use that land in a temporary way, it becomes feasible to put housing on it. While you have to accept that you may have to move them one day, that shouldn’t stop you if the units are easy to move. “It’s a quick fix that will lower the cost of living in cities.”
The Wellington Company has been working on the CitiBlox concept for about five years. A prototype unit was built several years ago, but construction has started on an improved version, due for completion in the next three months. Cassels says they will be high-quality, double-glazed apartments and perfectly appropriate for permanent locations. They will be equipped with two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, bathroom and deck. The design has a Multiproof nationwide building approval from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, which speeds up planned developments because it means only land-use consents are needed.
WELLESLEY, MA--(Marketwired - October 03, 2016) - Increasing use of international food processing technology, rising demand for quality products, and fulfilling consumer expectations are keying growth in the global market for food processing and packaging equipment. BCC Research reveals in its new report that these drivers and innovative technologies are transforming the food processing and packaging market into a high-volume industry.
The food processing equipment industry comprises two groups: processing machinery and equipment, and packaging machinery and equipment. The food and beverage industries use processing machinery and equipment to transform raw plant and animal materials such as raw grains, fish, meat and dairy into products for human consumption. These industries use packaging machinery and equipment to pack processed food. This equipment is located at the end of the production line.
The global market for equipment used in food processing and packaging should reach about $25.7 billion and $31.5 billion in 2015 and 2020, respectively, reflecting a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%. The food packaging market is expected to grow from $14.4 billion in 2015 to nearly $17.3 billion in 2020, demonstrating a five-year CAGR of 3.6%. The food processing market should reach $11.2 billion and $14.2 billion in 2015 and 2020, respectively, on a five-year CAGR of 4.8%.
Innovation is the foremost driver for the growth of the food processing and packaging equipment industry. Manufacturers' attempts to gain a strong foothold in the industry are yielding better designs that offer increase productivity and cost reduction. Innovative and flexibly designed processing and packaging systems are the prerequisites for manufacturers to keep pace with trends in the food industry that may arise from economic factors of utilization and consumer spending.
Growing consumer preference for individual product packaging is driving the development of innovative packaging options and product inspection systems. In response, manufacturers are providing more efficient food packaging solutions with different materials such as environmentally friendly paper boxes, polyethylene-terephthalate laminated containers, super lightweight plastic film, and sterilized cans.Robotics and state-of-art automated equipment both have increased product efficiency and consistency in the food processing and packaging segment. Advanced automated food processing equipment enables high-volume production of better quality products with a longer shelf life.
"The food processing sector is rapidly being transformed into a high-volume industry. Recent food technologies are used to meet the standard requirements of food safety and consumer demand," says BCC Research analyst Shalini S. Dewan. "The food industry is emerging as a high-growth, high-profit industry, with huge potential, especially in the food processing segment. New food processing and packaging technology is now focusing on retaining maximum nutrients and sensory properties and increasing the shelf life of food without any adverse effect on the quality of food."
Global Markets for Food Processing and Food Packaging Equipment (FOD066B) provides an updated review of the market, including basic design and its applications in various segments of food processing and packing such as meat, fish and poultry, milk, fruits and vegetables, beverages, industrial bakery products and grains. The report analyzes analyzes each market and its application, regulatory environment, new products and advancements, market projections and market shares. Global market drivers and trends, with data from 2014, estimates for 2015, and projections of CAGRs through 2020 also are provided.
About BCC ResearchBCC Research is a publisher of market research reports that provide organizations with intelligence to drive smart business decisions. By partnering with industry experts worldwide, BCC Research provides unbiased measurements and assessments of global markets covering major industrial and technology sectors, including emerging markets. Founded in 1971, BCC Research is a unit of Eli Global, LLC.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 1:34 PM: The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's (NZIER) closely-watched Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion showed that New Zealand's business confidence perked up in September quarter to a two-year high.
In seasonally adjusted terms, a net 26 percent of firms were optimistic about the general outlook, up from 19 percent in June. Net confidence about businesses' own activity over the next quarter improved to 32 percent from 22 percent in the June quarter (the highest since mid-2014).
Construction and retail business confidence improved, while manufacturing sector confidence was steady. Services sector confidence also improved. A net 27 percent of businesses expected to hire more workers over the next quarter, up from 13 percent in the last quarter and its highest level since 1973. However, a net 41 percent said it was difficult finding skilled labour and 14 percent said it was difficult finding unskilled labour.
NZIER's capacity utilization measure -- one measure of inflationary pressures -- fell to 92.5% from 92.9%. The survey's other measures of inflationary pressures also showed relatively weak inflationary pressures, despite indicators of strong economic growth. Data suggests inflation is likely to remain subdued over the remainder of 2016. - EconoTimes
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
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Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242