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Almax Industries acquires Ovaboard NZ
With the purchase of OvaBoard NZ, Almax Industries can now add OvaBoard temporary surface protection to its product range.
OvaBoard is a well-known brand in the building and construction industry for
its temporary surface protection product which lays out fast and flat and with water shield technology that stops spills and dirt soaking through for a minimum of up to 60 hours.
OvaBoard is available through all trade paint & hardware resellers throughout New Zealand.
For further information, contact Almax Industries (sales@almax.co.nzor 0800
101 039).
www.almax.co.nz www.ovaboard.co.nz
THE LATEST TROWEL Trades member store is Trowel Trades Supa-Centre Nelson.
Trowel Trades Supa-Centre Nelson
is locally owned and operated by Brad and Julia May and Richard and Deb Burrows, who bring to the party 40+ years’ combined plastering experience and a strong desire to offer local tradespeople and DIYers great service and
Big roof + solar = big savings
a large range of products at great prices. Trowel Trades Supa-Centre Nelson supplies all products for work requiring
a trowel, whether it’s plastering, concreting, brick or block laying, tiling, waterproofing, painting or decorating.
Find Trowel Trades Supa-Centre Nelson at 37 Beach Rd, Richmond 7020 Nelson.
www.troweltrades.co.nz
largest of its kind in New Zealand and has been designed to make operational electrical consumption related to
the office completely “zero carbon”, something that will be confirmed during its first year of operation.
Offsetting the electricity will result in savings of 194ton of CO2/a. The system does not incorporate batteries so any excess electricity will be sold into the grid.
Foodstuffs NI adds that the combination of the solar panel installation and the creation of a 5 Greenstar New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) rated office complex is the first of its kind at this scale for New Zealand.
The new DC by the way consolidates the operations of three existing DCs and you can expect to see players in the hardware channel follow suit, both in terms of solar and consolidation, in the coming months and years.
www.foodstuffs.co.nz
New store for Nelson’s DIYers and trowel tradespeople
FOODSTUFFS NORTH ISLAND is set to install the largest array of solar panels in the country on the roof of the massive 74,886m2 ambient Distribution Centre that’s currently under construction at Landing Business Park near Auckland International Airport.
Reid Technology was awarded the
contract for the supply and installation of a 1.166MWp grid-connected solar panel system incorporating almost 3,000 solar panels covering some 6,000m2 which
will generate electricity equivalent to the power needs of 213 average Kiwi homes a year.
The photovoltaic (PV) array will be the
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