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Maintenance engineers around the world are changing to Gates Poly Chain
GT belts. In comparison with other belts, Poly Chain GET drives weigh up
to 35% less, use sprockets that are up to 67% narrower and have up to
4 times more power. Gates Poly Chain GT belts last longer, require no
lubrication and are practically maintenance-free for reduced overall costs.
Maintenance engineers around the world are changing to Gates Poly Chain
GT belts. In comparison with other belts, Poly Chain GET drives weigh up
to 35% less, use sprockets that are up to 67% narrower and have up to
4 times more power. Gates Poly Chain GT belts last longer, require no
lubrication and are practically maintenance-free for reduced overall costs.
Maintenance engineers around the world are changing to Gates Poly Chain
GT belts. In comparison with other belts, Poly Chain GET drives weigh up
to 35% less, use sprockets that are up to 67% narrower and have up to
4 times more power. Gates Poly Chain GT belts last longer, require no
lubrication and are practically maintenance-free for reduced overall costs.
14 November 2018
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EPA ramps
up chemical
programme
The Environmental Protection
Authority (EPA) is making
changes to the way some
chemicals are managed in
New Zealand. It is ramping
up its reassessments
programme and taking action
on some chemicals to ensure
risks to people and the
environment continue to be
managed effectively.
As New Zealand’s
independent regulator the
EPA manages the regulation,
approval and reassessment
of chemicals classed as
hazardous substances under
the Hazardous Substances
and New Organisms (HSNO)
Act.
Working with international
counterparts it has identified
a priority chemicals list of
around 40 chemicals that
require review and scrutiny.
This will involve reviewing
the rules that apply to those
chemicals to ensure risks to
people and the environment
continue to be managed
effectively, providing
greater confidence for New
Zealanders that the EPA is
properly managing their health
and environmental concerns
on their behalf and on behalf
of future generations.
Top Oz engineering award to Hamilton
Hamilton businessman David Platts of
PDV Consultants was awarded the prestigious
Chemeca Medal at the Chemical
Engineering Awards in Queenstown.
The Chemeca Medal is awarded to a
prominent New Zealand or Australian
chemical engineer who has made
an outstanding contribution, through
achievement or service, to the practice
of chemical engineering.
Mr Platts received the award at a dinner
during the 47th annual Chemeca conference,
in front of an audience of industrial
chemists, chemical and process
engineers and academic professionals.
“It is very humbling and a great honour
to receive this award,” says Mr Platts,
who has been working in the industry for
more than 50 years. “I’m really chuffed.
Mr Platts, 67, last month announced his
retirement from PDV Consulting, the international
engineering firm founded 28
years ago with wife Anne Platts.
“The Chemeca Medal is an award for the
business, and for Anne and everyone
who has contributed over the years,”
says Mr Platts. “It comes at a really special
time for us, as it is 28 years ago this
week that Anne and I started our business.
At the end of November, we’ll be
retiring and this is a wonderful note to
finish on.”
PDV Consultants is a global expert in
food process technologies and systems
design with offices in Hamilton,
New Zealand and Belfast, Ireland.
Their team of chemical and process engineers
has delivered projects for many
of the world’s leading food companies
including Fonterra, Tatua, the Dairy
Goat Cooperative, Danone, Glanbia
(Ireland and USA), Dairconcepts (USA),
First Milk (UK), South West Cheese and
others.
The company was founded in October
1990 and over the past three decades
has grown from two people to 25, with
21 staff based at PDV’s Alexandra
Street, Hamilton headquarters and four
staff based in Ireland.
“We started working out of our home
office, just the two of us, and it’s grown
exponentially over the years,” says Mr
Platts.
It’s a Waikato success story, and one
that has operated largely under the radar.
“We turnover up to $5 million a year and
we are a New Zealand-owned business
that is highly technically competent and
draws in quality people and revenue to
the Waikato region and New Zealand,”
says Mr Platts. “I’m really proud of that,
because our business benefits the local
economy.”