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Cutlery Kiwi wins Great Kiwi
Engineering Competition
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Simon Squire of ArcActive Limited in
Christchurch has won the inaugural
Great Kiwi Engineering Competition
along with a swag of prizes and cash
thanks to Engineering News, XPO Exhibitions,
Machinery House, Cigweld
and TheOutdoors.
Judges felt there was something
quintessential Kiwi about Simon
Squire’s entry ‘Cutlery Kiwi’ and when
it came to the final judging process his
entry edged out ‘Bird’ by Ian Bedwell
of Cankiwi Ltd trading as NZLaser.
The final judging was put in the hands
of attendees to EMEX 2018, with an
incredible one in five people through
the show voting. Both ‘birds’ were featured
on the Engineering News stand.
A feature will appear in the July issue
of Engineering News, but from an engineering
perspective, it was as if he
was given a job to do and he turned
to whatever he had on hand to get the
job done and fulfil the brief.
Simon utilised old school practices
that many a Kiwi engineer has had to
do for more than 100 years due to
available resources, supply issues/
cost and isolation, or just because the
‘No.8 Wire’ is so entrenched within our
psyche.
He fired up his imagination and welder,
opting to enter Cutlery Kiwi using
welding as his principle engineering
discipline. Some innovative sparking
of grey matter had him heading to the
cutlery draw to create his engineering
art – the feathery forks fitting fantastically
while his mind merged spoons
and forks definitely put the kiwi’s nose
ahead of its competition.
“With us Kiwis having a big focus on
sustainability, I decided to take a recycling
approach for my sculpture.
“I purchased recycled cutlery from a
local eco store and op shop and set
about cutting, heating, shaping and
welding forks and spoons together
into my final kiwi form. It took approximately
80 forks and five spoons to
make my kiwi,” says Simon.
“I started by making a basic skeleton
with cutlery and then built up the
body, head and beak from that, before
modelling the kiwi's feathers with lots
of forks.”
REN140
Engineering
students
awarded RMTU
scholarships
Two young students with a
passion for engineering have
been awarded Ernest William File
scholarships for 2018.
Eighteen-year-old Hannah
Hudson (Christchurch) and Anton
Rufer (Tirau) have been awarded
$2000 each towards their first
year of study at the University
of Canterbury. The scholarship
supports the sons and daughters
of members of the Rail and
Maritime Transport Union (RMTU)
in their first year of a degree at a
New Zealand university.
Hannah is studying towards a
Bachelor of Engineering, majoring
in natural resources engineering.
Also studying engineering at
the University of Canterbury,
Anton is majoring in mechatronics
or software engineering.
“Engineering is a subject I have
been passionate about from
a young age,” says Anton. “I
enjoy being creative and solving
problems, so I aim to get a job
that involves these aspects of my
personality and puts my study of
engineering into practice, as well
as some hands-on work and a bit
of a challenge.”
A cut above the
rest
New Zealand companies have
been lauded across the Tasman
for packaging innovations, and
one of interest to the engineering
sector includes an automated
lamb processing system.
It was part of the Packaging &
Processing Innovation & Design
Awards (PIDA) – a joint Australia
and New Zealand industry
awards platform – and the
World Packaging Organisation’s
WorldStar Awards.
Silver Fern Farms was heralded
for its automated system for
processing lamb carcases
into retail cuts, which won
Design Innovation of the Year
– Machinery & Equipment. The
system designed by Dunedin’s
Scott Automation & Robotics is
the only lamb automation system
worldwide.
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