Kawerau Engineering Ltd

Kawerau Engineering was established to provide maintenance and repair service to the pulp & paper and sawmilling industries and to tackle the challenges that are associated with maintaining major New Zealand industrial plants.

Although industrial maintenance remains a major part of business, the diverse range of skills and knowledge accumulated through our maintenance activities have enabled the company to grow into a highly capable fabrication facility.

The major workshop focus is a full range of fabrication and plate forming activities. Work carried out includes pressure vessels, heat exchanger's, tanks, flue stacks and ducting, hydropower penstocks and turbine casings, conveyors and handling equipment.

The workshops are equipped with CNC profile cutting and plate nesting capabilities, plate development software, 300 tonne press brake and significant plate rolling and guillotining capacity. Shop lifting capacity of 32 tonnes with 9m underhook clearance and a manipulator capacity of 60 tonnes. Welding equipment includes a range of high capacity flux cored arc MIG welders, submerged arc, both mobile and fixed, TIG, stick and mobile engine welders.

Complementing the heavy fabrication capacity are sheetmetal fabrication workshop and fitting/machine shop.

The sheetmetal workshop manufacture and install a wide range of industrial sheetmetal products including fans, ductings, cyclones and machinery guards. They also carry out a considerable amount of maintenance sheetmetal work for industrial clients.

The fitting/machine shop carry out maintenance and repair to rotating and hydraulic machinery and do general machining/precision engineering for external clients and other departments within the company.

The company quality system is tailored to suit the company's operations and is approved by Lloyds to ISO9001.
The weld procedures and operators are approved to the various American, European and Australian pressure vessel codes.