The new Australian HQ of Lapp at Eastern Creek in Sydney. Lapp Australia General Manager Simon Pullinger (third from left) says family-owned Lapp is renowned globally for innovation and service values. With Mr Pullinger are Lapp Australia team members (from left) Rod Calderon – marketing & office Manager; Indy Saggu – customer service executive; Simon Pullinger; and Michael De Leon – warehouse supervisor. Lapp Australia will work in close co-operation with its established key local Lapp distribution partner in Australia, Treotham Automation, which brings market-leading local expertise to its specialised markets. Lapp Australia will also extend its strong association with ECS New Zealand, a family-owned business, like Lapp, which has been a Lapp distributor for more than 30 years. ECS Investments is a 50% shareholder in the new Lapp Australia business, with the other 50 per cent owned by Lapp Holding Asia. The existing online Lapp Express website, meanwhile, will continue to expand in both countries, complementing the new strengths delivered by Lapp Australia. Mr Pullinger says Lapp’s investment in a new full subsidiary in Australia is a strong vote of confidence in local industry as it increasingly moves into the global industrial automation market, which is forecast to grow to an annual worth of $US 350 billion ($A460 billion) by 2024.* “Lapp has delivered its resources, expertise and German top-quality standards to Australia at a time in the country’s industrial development when such support is most needed to prepare diverse industries for a future in which they will use technology to compete cost-efficiently. “Lapp’s integrated approach to high technology solutions is also highly appropriate to world class Australian customers seeking the assurance of top quality products and systems that meet global compliance standards and are fully traceable back to the point of manufacture.” “Lapp’s commitments to the markets it enters are always in-depth, long-term and backed by an uncompromising customer focus and dedication to client service. These values of Lapp globally have remained constant since its establishment by Oskar Lapp in 1959 and through its evolution into a global family of companies bound together with the same strong principles.” Mr Pullinger says the new Eastern Creek facility provides a strong base for engineering, technical and product support staff, operating in a technology and distribution environment modelled on Lapp’s global facilities supplying more than 100 countries worldwide. These facilities provide fully tailored solutions, service and product backup that are easily accessible to engineers, designers and specifiers. Lapp Australia’s locally available stock, compatible products and systems and quick order turnaround times are designed to streamline the specifier’s job and to deliver optimum on-time results with outstanding ongoing reliability. NHP has a retrofitting solution for you! NHP’s ACB retrofit solutions are specifically designed to allow the existing switchboard to remain fundamentally unchanged, with only the obsolete ACB being replaced. Existing busbars and cables remain unaltered, therefore simplifying the installation process and reducing downtime. NHP Electrical Engineering Prodcuts 0800 NHP NHP | nhp-nz.com NHP91597 12/17 Visit nhp-nz.com/more/acbretro REN054 91597_NZEngNewsFebStrip_AD.indd 1 14/12/2017 10:43 AM www.engineeringnews.co.nz 47
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