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Gyro uses simple technology to solve customer service issue as part of Industry 4.0

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Gyro Plastics is one of the leading plastics engineering companies in NZ and made its first plastic moulded product in 1968, to become expert plastic manufacturers. They provide products to the infrastructure sector in New Zealand with a broad range of distribution pillars and cabinets as well as …

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Calm Pipe aiding transition to Smokefree NZ

Member Profile / By Catherine Beard

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Smoking has wreaked havoc on the health of New Zealanders for centuries. Fortunately, through concerted efforts, New Zealand is closer than it’s ever been in reaching its Smokefree ambitions. Stricter legislation like standardised packaging is reducing the appeal of smoking and the ability of the tobacco …

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Bupa – it’s not about retirement, it’s about living

Member Profile / By Michael Briggs

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin From the moment you walk in the door of Bupa Hugh Green Retirement Village on the North Shore of Auckland, the tastefully decorated interior, calming music and smiling faces make it feel more like a high-end health spa than a place for older people. That is …

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Cycling boom sees e-bike business through Covid

Member Profile / By Catherine Beard

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin In 2016, Nelson-based serial entrepreneur Frank Witowski refused to let a cancer diagnosis stop him and after taking a year off to recover, he began his third start-up, Hybrid Bikes. The German engineer sold his first company based on solar technology to Steven Tindall’s K1W1 investment vehicle. …

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Asmuss celebrates 100 years of business and unveils a new charitable trust

Member Profile / By Linda Shackelford

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin This month, Asmuss, and EMA member and one of the country’s largest suppliers of steel and flow control products, celebrates 100 years in business. The privately-owned business – with current shareholders fourth and fifth generation family members – has supplied products to New Zealand’s biggest industrial …

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Company-X developer fights COVID-19

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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Company-X software developer Mark Nikora has joined the fight against COVID-19 by volunteering his time to a project designing and building low-cost remote control medical ventilators. Nikora, who joined Company-X, a member of the EMA, in March after 20 years as an information technology lecturer at …

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Electric Air looks to spread its wings in 2021

Member Profile / By Catherine Beard

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Despite a global pandemic, 2020 was a big year for Electric Air founder Gary Freedman. “We’ve gone from a social enterprise start-up to a well-known, trading entity. It was a big year,” he reflects. Freedman is tapping into the environmental and economic opportunity for low emission …

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ChargeSmart adjusts to COVID-19

Member Profile / By Catherine Beard

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin ChargeSmart chief executive Nigel Broomhall was on his third trip to the US in 2020 when countries started going into COVID-19 lockdown. “I was in New York of all places,” said Nigel. Up to that point, things were running very smoothly for this entrepreneur, but when …

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A family’s custard square legacy

Member Profile / By Catherine Beard

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The Timaru-based Templeton family is building a custard square legacy. Denheath was originally a café, which Lisa Templeton’s parents purchased in 1996 because they loved the custard squares. In fact, Lisa’s mother Carol loved the custard square so much she believed it had potential to be …

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Otis Oat Milk-ing it

Member Profile / By Catherine Beard

Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Since launching less than a year ago, Otis Oat Milk has exceeded all expectations. Founders Tim Ryan and Chris Wilkie were raised on farms in New Zealand and after 10-years in Europe decided to return home. “Seeing the changing consumer that is evolving globally who is …

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5 August 2021

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Gyro uses simple technology to solve customer service issue as part of Industry 4.0

Calm Pipe aiding transition to Smokefree NZ

Bupa – it’s not about retirement, it’s about living

Cycling boom sees e-bike business through Covid

Asmuss celebrates 100 years of business and unveils a new charitable trust

Company-X developer fights COVID-19

Electric Air looks to spread its wings in 2021

ChargeSmart adjusts to COVID-19

A family’s custard square legacy

Otis Oat Milk-ing it