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CablePrice
signs distributor
agreement with
award-winning Hill
Engineering
CablePrice has added another
international brand to its product
line-up. CablePrice (NZ) Limited
is pleased to announce the
recent signing of an exclusive
distributor agreement with award
winning coupler manufacture Hills
Engineering.
Hill Engineering, according to a
release, is recognised as the UK’s
leading coupler provider and is
a major supplier of couplers to
Hitachi UK with the majority of
Hitachi excavators sold, in the UK,
being fitted with a Hill Engineering
Coupler.
“Hills range of couplers have
a great reputation and we’re
excited to now be offering our
customers local access to their
award winning and industry
safest Tefra range of couplers,”
says Johan Hanekom, CablePrice
national product manager, special
products
With over 20 years of innovations
and knowledge Hill Engineering
produces some of the most cost
effective, durable and safest
products to the market. In 2014,
Hill Engineering won the Queen’s
Award for Enterprise in innovation
and were also recognised by
Plantworx innovation with an
award for engineering.
“Hill Engineering’s Tefra range
includes coupler and tilt coupler,
all with cast steel components
to produce higher strength and
lower weight. While our initial
focus is on fitting couplers and
tilts to our new Hitachi excavators.
Additionally, we carry a full range
couplers that can be fitted
to almost any excavator in the
market.”
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from concept to new architectural solution.”
Finch came up with his idea during his
Masters year and, under the guidance
of Guy Marriage—Senior Lecturer in
the School of Architecture—has taken it
into his PhD (with additional supervision
from Dr Antony Pelosi and Dr Morten
Gjerde).
Viclink has been an amazing support,”
says Finch. “During my Masters, Liam
Sutton—one of Viclink’s commercialisation
managers—brought in an IP specialist
to talk to me about how to protect
my intellectual property and also connected
me to a circular economy startup
funder.”
Finch says Viclink introducing him to
KiwiNet has had one of the biggest impacts
to date as it has given him access
to a great network of expertise and experience,
his own business mentor and
funding to further develop his product.
“I’m using the funding to carry out specialised
work required to finalise engineering
designs for the earthquake
resistant hold down fixings for the walls
and interior,” says Finch. “KiwiNet’s support
is also helping me to test the structural
integrity and weather-tightness
of the X-frame product, both critical
features for any future commercialised
product. They’ve also arranged for me
to meet with scientists from Scion who
are developing natural adhesives from
forest waste products and Auckland
based company Fastmount which manufactures
reusable clips that connect
interior wall linings with the structure.
These materials perfectly complement
the X-Frame technology—the networking
is the magic!”
He says that even though X-Frame is
innately earthquake stable because
of its design geometry, independent
structural testing is crucial in getting
his product to market. His PhD scholarship
funded by the Building Research
Levy (BRANZ) is also assisting with the
project, with additional funding also provided
for structural testing of the prototype
product.
Finch is currently building a small (10m2)
prefabricated prototype dwelling in
Auckland to demonstrate his ideas at
scale and to inform market viability. He
believes the completed prototype will
be New Zealand’s most sophisticated
‘circular’ building.
Finch says, “This prototype build is a
major step as it is the first time we will
have built the entire wall system with
cladding, cavity battens, insulation and
an internal lining. Unitec Institute of
Technology’s School of Architecture
have helped out by providing robotic
fabrication facilities to create the frame
– which means we’ll be able to have the
entire building water-tight in less than
one week on-site. We’re cladding the
assembled X-Frame in an entirely reusable,
chemical free external cladding
system centered around a naturally preserved
timber product being developed
by Abodo Wood Ltd.”
Finch was recently invited to present his
concept at the Advanced Building Skins
(ABS) conference in Bern, Switzerland.
He says this was recognition from the
international building industry that major
changes are needed to curb waste
production.
Finch says X-Frame could totally transform
the way we think about buildings.
“My ‘blue-sky’ objective is to build a
housing development with a complete
circular economy design—where all
building materials can be quickly recovered
at the end of a structure’s life and
either efficiently recycled or directly reused
without any negative environmental
impacts.”
The KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Programme
is open to early career researchers
based at universities, Crown
Research Institutes and other publicly
funded research organisations across
New Zealand. Programme recipients receive
expert legal advice from KiwiNet
corporate partner MinterEllisonRuddWatts
and IP advice from Baldwins, as
well as funding from the Norman Barry
Foundation, owner of the Quality Hotel
Parnell Limited, K1W1 and PreSeed Accelerator
Funding, from MBIE.
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