Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Feb 14, 2018  -  Environmental organisation WWF-New Zealand is deeply concerned by suggestions from the new Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash that he might “scrap” plans to put cameras on fishing boats.

Feb 14, 2018  -  Global design firm Stantec is strengthening its New Zealand and Australia-based capabilities with the planned acquisition of Wellington, New Zealand-based consulting transportation engineering firm, Traffic Design Group (TDG). With more than 80 team members, TDG has offices located in markets throughout New Zealand, including Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, and Christchurch. The firm also has an office in Sydney, Australia. The transaction is expected to close April 1.

feb 14, 2018  -  Plant & Food Research is proud to be the recipient of this year’s Prime Minister’s Science Prize for its rapid response to the vine-killing kiwifruit disease Psa.

Feb 14, 2018  -  When is a skip-loader of no use? The answer? When you need a hooklift truck instead. Now skiptruck and hookloader manufacturer Harsh has an answer – a demountable skiploader!


The demountable skiploader unit developed by Harsh based on the requirements of specific customer demand, is designed to fit onto a chassis fitted with a conventional hook- lift system (Ro-Ro/hookloader), which in effect doubles its capability, enabling one single truck to load and transport containers from these two popular, but otherwise incompatible systems.

“We can run a single vehicle as a standard hookloader for one journey, then quickly change it to a skiploader for the next job,” explains Freddy McAlister, fleet engineer at Malcolm Construction, the operator of this interesting new innovation.

“In the past, we’ve had
to operate both types of truck
– sometimes on the same con- tract. Now we only need one to handle both types of container. It’s given us a real productivity boost and increased our fleet flexibility,” he adds.


Designed to work at 26 tonnes gross weight, the new
Harsh ‘HS14T Demountable Skiploader’ provides a 14 tonnes lift capacity (or 10 tonnes at 4250 mm maximum reach with telescopic arms extended) and is able to handle skips of all sizes up to 10 tonnes capacity.

Harsh director Adam Hargreaves is also upbeat about the wider sales potential for this new addi- tion to the Harsh product range.

“This is a great example not
just of joint teamwork between customer and supplier, but is also a demonstration of how we at Harsh are able to design and develop imaginative solutions to meet our customers’ require- ments,” he comments.

Source:  WasteManagementWorld ||  February 14, 2018   |||

• Investors have 4-month wait for 'new-look' Fletcher Building that may shed B+I
• Bridges joining Collins in leadership contest
• Lowest annual increase in food prices since April 2017
• Budget update - fairness and prosperity
• Astronomers question NZ's super-scope commitment
• Ralph Norris steps down as Fletcher chair after new $486M provision in B+I
• Fletcher's monopoly queried
• 90-day employment trials will remain
• Judith Collins has thrown her hat in the ring for the leadership of the National Party; RadioNZ reports
• Robertson promises to deliver NZ's first 'wellbeing' budget, based on Treasury framework

Feb 13, 2018  - Another month, another record at Christchurch Airport.  Figures just in show the record set in December 2017, for busiest month on record, was beaten in January.

Feb 13, 2018  -  The Napier City Council Business Breakfast Series events take place quarterly. They encourage businesses large and small to attend and to learn from the range of inspiring business leaders who speak and lead discussion on a variety of topics.

feb 13, 2018  -  A Napier Port commercial training scheme is drawing praise from the Government for the way it is improving safety levels across New Zealand - and boosting the Fijian economy.