Inside the 'ideas factory'

Jenny Baker visits Inveratek to meet the brains behind the innovative ‘Crushpak’ container and ProFlow and VeraSeal fluid control technologies. What she discovered was a team that epitomizes Kiwi ingenuity.

Infra red refrigerant leak detection

IN today’s business environment cost saving is becoming paramount and there is no better example than in the refrigeration industry.

Pultrusions ideal for structural applications

PULTRUSION is a continuous process for manufacturing composite structural profiles – such as rod, tube, angle, channel, bar, or in more complex shapes.

Fast track prototyping delivers major savings

AT 3D Print, on Auckland’s North Shore, three men with a passion for pushing technological boundaries, banded together to form New Zealand’s first rapid prototyping and modelling bureau that utilises the benefits of leading-edge 3D colour printing technology. Technical director Martin Brewer, marketing director Richard Keesing and operations director Peter Dawson have for some time been developing an exciting new ‘short circuit’ to make patterns for foundry castings using 3D printing technology.

Cheese factory gets topcoat treatment

A CHEESE processing factory in Manukau City is one of the latest food manufacturers to experience the specialist floor coating skills of Topcoat Specialist Coatings Limited.