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A slice of our crane industry history Company Profile

A slice of our crane industry history

Liebherr New Zealand has now acquired Morrow NZ, former distributor of Liebherr tower and marine cranes here, and a new chapter in an interesting crane story begins. Richard Campbell explains. A look around any cityscape will reveal tower cranes, they are everywhere and pop up seemingly overnight in some places. A closer look will...
In the depth of the forest Company Profile

In the depth of the forest

Forestry roading contractors work out of public sight and usually do not have high visibility. In the first feature we have ever published on a forestry contractor, Alan Titchall talks to Malcolm Edridge, the managing director of Edridge Contracting, one of the larger earthworks contractors in the Nelson/Marlborough region. Your...
FOUNDED ON RED ROCK Company Profile

FOUNDED ON RED ROCK

Auckland might seem far away to a business based in Taupo, but four-laning has brought it well within reach. Hugh de Lacy explains. EARTHMOVING AND QUARRYING comprise the two otherwise separate businesses run out of Taupo by Seay brothers Graham and Bruce, but while the dozers and excavators operate around the central North Island,...
Quarry contract awarded Company Profile

Quarry contract awarded

RedBull is providing blasting services for all GBC Winstone’s quarries across the North Island. THIS FOLLOWS THE contract award in July, where RedBull Powder Company’s service was extended from four quarries to providing an integrated drilling and blasting service for all nine sites. Moving to a single supplier is a significant...
RedBull Powder's proud legacy – and bright future Company Profile

RedBull Powder's proud legacy – and bright future

RedBull Powder Company celebrated its 20-year legacy of innovation recently as the company continues to grow. The RedBull team gathered 130 staff, customers and suppliers together at Bracu Pavilion in Bombay to celebrate the company’s 20th birthday. In 1997, founders Peter Shapiro and Mike Henderson set out to offer something...
Alpha Specialised Movers: Moving in a new direction Company Profile

Alpha Specialised Movers: Moving in a new direction

Alpha Specialised Movers is moving in a new direction now that one of its founders has retired. RICHARD SILCOCK talks to its remaining director about the change. Upper Hutt based Alpha Specialised Movers is on the verge of a new era following the retirement at the end of last year of co-founder, co-owner and long-time specialist...
For the good of energy Company Profile

For the good of energy

This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017. Taranaki company Burgess & Crowley Civil has been providing various aggregate services to the region’s energy industry for almost three decades and its latest wellsite construction project involved an innovative way of minimising vehicle movements on a strategic rural road....
Scrapers reign supreme Company Profile

Scrapers reign supreme

Motorised scrapers are enjoying a huge resurgence, and the smartest earthmovers are cashing in on the productivity, and profitability, they offer. For some, such as Drapers Earthmoving, the sun never set on the scraper’s ‘heyday’. Owner Vic Draper and son Scott talks to Chris Webb about his loyalty to these evergreen workhorses of...
Worthington Contracting: from strength to strength Company Profile

Worthington Contracting: from strength to strength

It’s now a case of where to from here for a small family company that grew rapidly in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes. HUGH DE LACY reviews the options. WHEN RUSSELL WORTHINGTON started his contracting company in 1984 he gave it an impressive name – North Canterbury Excavation and Drainage – for an outfit whose...
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