CELEBRATING 60 YEARS TRADING SCRAP 1959–2019
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MACAULAY
METALS
RECYCLING AT ITS BEST
M A T E R I A L S
Celebrating 60 years in the metal business
next year, Macaulay Metals is the largest
privately-owned metal recycling firm in New
Zealand.
Managing director, Jeff Harris, has owned
the company since 1995 with the main
operation based in the Hutt Valley and yards
in the North Island at Palmerston North,
Rotorua and Whakatane.
Some 90 full-time employees buy, process
and sell metal within New Zealand and
throughout the world, working in conjunction
with many suppliers as well as the public -
who bring in old car batteries and household
scrap - right through to major engineering
and demolition companies.
A dedicated trucking fleet and mobile
projects team working on a number of
successful demolition and decommissioning
contracts means that you see Macaulay
Metals operating anywhere in the country
and it is this variety of work that the
company says makes the industry so
interesting and rewarding.
Macaulay Metals has been involved with
major projects in a variety of industry
sectors and has developed specialised
methodologies for safely and efficiently
demolishing and processing a range of
infrastructure assets from oil storage tanks,
to transformers, to railway carriages and
everything in between.
Of course, loading the metal on the truck
is only part of the job. The majority of
processing happens at the yard with a
range of equipment used depending on
the product. Getting the metal export ready
can involve the use of the cable granulator,
a 1000 tonne compression shear (the
biggest of its kind in New Zealand) or a
high-density baler. These machines enable
a better quality of product to be loaded
more efficiently into shipping containers
and are looked after in-house by a team of
engineering staff.
The team at Macaulay Metals is passionate
about metal recycling - the oldest form of
recycling in the world. Many businesses
are unaware that their metal by-products
are not only a valuable income stream but
something that can be diverted from landfill.
Almost all metal products can be recycled,
and the environmental benefits of recycling
are obvious: significantly less energy is
used to recycle metal than to source it from
mining activities.
It is clear that metal recycling is here to stay,
and Macaulay Metals will continue to operate
with the values of honesty, fairness and
integrity that they are known for.
Wellington
45 Seaview Road,
Lower Hutt
Ph: 04 589 2222
Palmerston North
24 Malden Street,
Palmerston North
Ph: 06 357 7071
Rotorua
73 Old Taupo Road,
Rotorua
Ph: 07 348 6966
Whakatane
147 Commerce Street,
Whakatane
www.macaulaymetals.co.nz 0800 72 72 79 | 0800 SCRAP YARD Ph: 07 308 9100
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