ENERGEX’S 300 maintenance, planning, design and construction personnel at New Zealand’s North Island will be offered jobs with electrical contractor Northpower.
09/09/2008
TENNANT says its ec-H2O technology has won the Innovation award at the New Zealand industry trade show CleanNZ.
19/05/2009
DONALDSON Australasia has appointed Roger J. Miller as its new Managing Director for its Australian and New Zealand operations.
06/03/2009
DOWNER EDI says it has won more than $800m worth of maintenance and engineering contracts, working in a diverse array of areas from telecommunications and power infrastructure, to mining.
10/07/2008
CHEMICAL company BASF is putting 80 of its plants into shutdown, in a move expected to impact 20,000 workers worldwide.
20/11/2008
TRANSFIELD Services says it has won a five-year, $13.5m per annum contract to provide essential asset management, maintenance and shutdown services to Carter Holt Harvey’s Tasman Mill in New Zealand.
11/02/2009
THE KAITAIA Juken Nissho plywood mill in New Zealand will be shut down between orders to save power and running costs.
20/03/2009
SAVCOR Advanced Rehabilitation Technology has secured more than $16m in new works in January and February 2009.
25/03/2009
NEW Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) is cutting production at its smelter plant because of the rising cost of power.
05/05/2008
THE RAVENSDOWN Fertiliser factory in Awatoto, New Zealand, has been evacuated after a boiler overheated to an explosive state.
22/01/2009
ACCORDING to New Zealand power company Transpower, nine-hour-long power outages to the Kaitaia and Doubtless Bay areas will become an annual occurrence due to the need for essential maintenance.
08/04/2009
NEW Zealand fire fighters have contained a fire at a Fonterra cheese factory in Taranaki.
04/08/2009
CADBURY is engaging in a $53m modernising program for its Claremont plant which will put 160 workers out of their jobs.
22/08/2008
ABB Group New Zealand says its Loss Map allows major industrial clients to more efficiently and cost-effectively.
09/04/2010
RCR Tomlinson has secured four engineering projects worth more than $47m in Australia, providing equipment, construction and overhauling services.
24/06/2008
POWER and automation technology group ABB has acquired Vectek Electronics, a New Zealand company.
06/05/2008
THE NZ$9.5m ($7.5m) water treatment plant near Wanaka airport in New Zealand is the subject of an ongoing dispute between the local district council and contractors United Group.
09/06/2009
SIRF Rt is holding the Planning4Reliability forum at Melbourne on 24 to 25 March 2009, featuring Doc Palmer, author of the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook.
09/01/2009
CLEANSCENE organisers say they have sold all of the floor space available in Stage One.
25/08/2009
ENGINEERS Australia says there will be a hazardous areas standards update seminar in Melbourne on 23 July 2009.
17/06/2009