Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Auckland -  Sealegs has released the first of the new production series Asis RIBs to be equipped with Sealegs System 60 amphibious technology. This continues Sealegs along the path of empowering additional global boat manufacturers to offer Amphibious Enablement Systems (AES) on their existing product lines.

Sealegs Amphibious Enablement Kits allow any boat builder to modify their craft to benefit from amphibious abilities. Craft with this technology can travel directly between land and sea by the use of three retractable wheels with a hydraulic system linked to an inboard motor. The entire system is marinised and stays completely out of the water while underway. This means there is no compromise to on-water performance.

Through working closely with Dubai-based Asis Boats, Sealegs has now released the fibreglass 7.5m Asis Midi with Sealegs amphibious technology. The first completed craft of its kind will be displayed at the Hutchwilco Boat Show on the 12th -15th May, 2016. The 7.5m Asis Midi will include the two-wheel drive and automatic braking systems as well as power steering and high quality, marine-ready Sealegs components.

Sealegs CEO, David Mckee Wright, said “we’re very excited to release another unique craft equipped with Sealegs technology. It further proves that the Amphibious Enablement Kit can be adopted by a wide range of boat manufacturers. We look forward to the continued growth of diverse Sealegs-enabled craft around the world”.

Powered by a 150HP Evinrude E-Tec on the water, the craft reaches speeds of up to 39 knots. Featuring Hypalon Tubes, 180 litre fuel tank and self-draining deck, the Asis 7.5 Midi is also equipped with four straddle style seats designed for additional comfort and lateral stability. It has an overall beam of 2.7m, a height of 2.3m on the wheels and can travel up to 10kph on land. The craft has a payload of 500kg.

This craft takes advantages of considerable cost savings available when working with large-scale hull manufacturers. It will be offered at a boat show special price of $129,000+gst.

Asis Boats joins the growing list of vessel manufacturers who recognise the marketable benefits of amphibious boating that includes Stabicraft, Smuggler Marine, and Reconcraft.

A Sealegs press release Monday 9 May 2016

Catering for tourists while leaving intact what they have come to see

MSCNewsWire, Tuesday 7 June 2016 - Now that tourism is overtaking dairy to become the biggest industry, the problem remains of heritage destinations especially those on the main north-south traffic routes accommodating the surge without in the process wrecking their appeal to the very visitors they seek to attract.

Greytown’s ribbon development athwart state highway 2 poses the problem in miniature. Its historic Main Street is also the main road.

The solution has been to push development back into the narrow hinterland allowing the preservation of the Victorian atmosphere while providing literally in-depth the retail resources required by visitors.

District developer Steve Pilbrow’s boardwalked latin quarter-meets- mall design levers off the borough’s central art deco style garage, more recently a supermarket, and with some tweaking here and there extends it through to the next parallel street.

This allows visitors to the town’s coffee shop and style shop tourist theme to have their cake and eat it and do so away from the main road.

Nothing was dislocated in the process, an ancient walnut tree preserved.

The new development, named the Greytown Hub, presumably after the garage parking lot it replaces, was opened at a modified mardi gras, a subtle reminder that the town’s activities are not necessarily curtailed by the setting of the sun- even in winter.

Meanwhile, district planning authorities are forced to consider the possibility of the recently installed Greytown hypermarket squeezing its way back onto the same main road, Main Street.

Neatly sequestered out of view on the old Bouzaid and Ballaben textile factory site the supermarket shows signs of bursting through to Main Street via an amply signed deliveries access that is considered by conservationist to be far too intrusive.

Just because it is the Wellington region’s only heritage destination means that New Zealand’s first inland town requires careful handling, if only from an economic point of view.The pioneers ensured that Main Street was wide enough to turn an ox cart in thus ensuring that there was room to spare even for today’s onrush. The trick for their successors is to ensure that the buildings along the route from the point of view of visitors remain redolent of those earlier times.

From the MSCNewsWire reporters' desk Tuesday 7 June 2016This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Catering for tourists while leaving intact what they have come to see

Saint Gobain coated and extruded products along with their high performance polymeric films, membranes, coatings and laminate are now fully represented in New Zealand through Auckland SWF Distributors.  The person to contact is Ross Eathorne who you can reach o 09 441 0040 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

SWF-Distribution3D / 89 Ellice Road GlenfieldP.O.Box 10-1167 North Shore Mail Centre 0745 Auckland Phone- +64 9 441 0040Fax-+64 9 444 2788Cell- 021 245 5135Email-This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Unifying element identified in the form of sustainable, ideologically-based capitalism on campus

Compac is well involved with this year’s London Produce Show and Conference.   Ken Moynihan (pictured above) is Compac's chief technical officer and he believes that the produce brands that can master data will be the winners. He says that harnessing data from multiple sources is key to managing a decentralised supply chain that has to deliver high-quality, safe food 365 days a year. Understanding the technology that can deliver that is one thing though, but the complexity of the supply chain and the demands of the modern consumer are piling huge pressures on fresh brands to deliver on their value propositions.

Compac is an established world leader in post-harvest integrated solutions and services to the fresh produce industry, and recently released its groundbreaking, modular and upgradeable SpectrimTM optical sorting platform into the sector. With the ability to take up to 500 high definition images of a single piece of fruit as it passes through the machine at a rate of 12 pieces of fruit a second, SpectrimTM can boast unrivalled grading accuracy and consistency. It also collects an almost unfathomable volume of data, which used properly and in conjunction with data from other technologies employed along the supply chain, could just revolutionise an industry’s view on branding.

Compac’s CEO Mike Riley believes SpectrimTM will support producers as they face ever-growing demands for consistency, traceability and packaging variations from global retailers. The platform’s design principles have also benefited from crucial input from lead customers around the world, and external research authorities in New Zealand’s Plant & Food Crown Research programme.

Ken Moynihan will deliver a presentation at theShow and Conference next week on the role of data in shouldering the burden of the brand promise. He adds: “This industry is beginning to embark upon the process of de-commoditisation of commodities and branding will be a significant part of that. Some 52 million mandarins are going through just one of our machines every single day – that generates 26 billion hi-res images of the fruit and that data has incredible value to support the development of a brand.”

Continue to the full article here published by ProduceBusinessUK

Machine makers tout  new technology for improved quality, consistancy and speed

If bedding manufacturers invest in the latest equipment available from machinery suppliers, mattresses and foundations soon will slip off assembly lines and into wrappers at a higher rate of speed—and with every interior component perfectly formed, aligned and adhered, and every sewn seam and radiused corner smooth and even.

This an article prepared by the editors at  BedTimes who glimpsed the future as they toured machinery booths at ISPA EXPO 2016 March 9-12 in Orlando, Florida.

Manufacturing equipment is one of the exhibition’s biggest draws and this one did not disappoint when it came to digital-age solutions to building beds with maximum efficiency and minimal waste.

Trends that were nascent several years ago—think automation, robotics and even ergonomics—are firmly mainstream now.

Read the full article here and take in the caliber of the machinery

The ET-Roll-300 from Elektroteks Ltd. in Bursa, Turkey, efficiently compresses, rolls and wraps mattresses of every size.

Seoul, 2 June 2016 - Thirty New Zealand food and beverage companies joined forces to showcase New Zealand recipes and products to around 400 Korean food and beverage industry professionals, journalists and power bloggers on 24 May at Seoul’s Lotte Hotel.

New Zealand food and beverage on offer included beef, beef jerky, beef bone extract, cheese, whipping cream, ice cream, sheep milk products, apple juice, honey, Manuka honey drink, chocolates, sauce, greenshell mussels and seafood, kiwifruit, syrup, beer and wine, making the 12th Food Connection event the largest such event New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) in Seoul has ever held.

The event helped raise the profile of participants’ products, meet potential customers and identify leads, following entry into force of the Korea New Zealand free trade agreement in December.

NZTE also held a dairy seminar for around 60 VIPs from major Korean manufacturers, the first time such an event has been held in Korea. Leading New Zealand dairy companies, including Fonterra, Tatua, Synlait and Spring Sheep Milk, made a presentation and were well received by the Korean industry contacts.

Trade Commissioner Ryan Freer welcomed the participants and guests, noting that that the new free trade agreement is already providing exporters and partners with a boost in trade and helping to strengthen partnerships.

The previous day, NZTE held an in-market services seminar and field trip to retail stores to help the New Zealand participants better understand the Korean market. This was followed by a networking reception with Korean guests.

A news posting by the NZ Foreign Affairs & Trade ministry

New Zealand Maritime School graduate students Ziyad Salim and Matapo’O (Matt) Manase have respectively won the Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain and Shipping Management Award and Diploma in Supply Chain Management Award.

The two awards and $500-apiece prizes were presented by New Zealand Shippers’ Council representative Murray Horne -- whose organisation is a prominent support of the Manukau Institute of Technology faculty -- in a recent ceremony at Central Auckland’s Mecure Hotel.

Mr Salim was acclaimed for “his high marks in supply chain study and unique personal skills for the industry” and Mr Manase for “his excellent grasp of the workings of the supply chain as a whole”.

About 50 graduates from a range of logistics programmes -- including some already employed in the logistics industry who had undertaken distance learning and night courses -- were presented with diplomas, graduate diplomas and certificates before a receptive audience.

The Maritime School notes it has been a “bumper year” for graduate numbers with industry demand for qualified shipping, freight and supply chain professionals said to be growing.

A Cubic Transport news posting June 1, 2016

At its Annual General Meeting on June 2, Saint-Gobain unveiled its new logotype. A new interpretation of the ‘bridge’ symbol that has represented the Group for more than 40 years, it also incorporates a vibrant skyline illustrating the Group’s brand territory of “living places.” Warm and bright colors have been used to create a more emotional connection with customers and end consumers.

This logo reflects an updated positioning for the brand, based around its promise: to design, manufacture and distribute materials that improve the wellbeing of both individuals and society as a whole. For Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Saint-Gobain, “At Saint-Gobain, our materials and solutions are designed to help increase the comfort of people today, wherever they live, work and travel. But we need to do this sustainably, helping to safeguard the planet for future generations. For us, these aspects of wellbeing are complementary, two sides of the same coin.”The shift in brand positioning underlines the Group’s commitment to creating a stronger connection with the general public. Better informed through digital media, consumers play an increasingly important role in specifying the products that are used in their projects. Saint-Gobain wants to explain how its materials and solutions contribute to daily life, through its brand values: expertise in materials, a culture of innovation, an understanding of customer needs and an approach based on openness and responsibility. “We need to be more visible to end consumers,” says Pierre-André de Chalendar. “Today’s strong brands demonstrate the value they bring to people. I want everyone to know what Saint-Gobain stands for, and the role our brands play in daily life.”

ABOUT SAINT-GOBAINSaint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. They can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.

World leader in habitat€39.6 billion SALES in 2015Operates in 66 countriesMore than 170,000 employees

Who we are ?Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. They can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.

Saint Gobain is well represented in New Zealand including SWFDistribution run be Ross Eathorne who can be reached on 09 441 0040 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.