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hb-technik asia pacific
A Unique Solution
Custom Ingredient Handling Solutions
hb-technik provides a unique high tech range of ingredient handling systems and solutions customised for the food processing industry. With superior accuracy, these solutions produce better quality products with improved safety, reduced environmental footprint and extensive cost savings.
The unique difference of hb-technik is its renowned reputation for the best designed and computerised quality ingredient management systems. This ensures your end product is produced with 100% accuracy for bulk handling conveying and dosing. The automation of levels and line dimensions can be adapted to each customer’s request to suit the characteristics of the individual Food or Beverage Manufacturing business.
With our extensive on-line 24×7 support across Asia Pacific, hb-technik provide programmed and event based maintenance for all different types of machine lines and equipment.
Anton Paar New Zealand Limited
Anton Paar develops and manufactures analytical instruments generating reliable data that enables food companies to proceed with confidence in product development, production and quality control. Anton Paar is a world leader in the measurement of density, concentration of dissolved CO2/O2 and in the field of material characterization, viscometry / rheometry, process instrumentation and provides custom-tailored automation and robotic solutions.
Laboratory and process measuring instruments from Anton Paar are used in the control of incoming goods, quality control and research throughout the food industry. The product portfolio ranges from portable measuring instruments over high-precision automated laboratory or process measurement technology to individual industry-specific solutions. Moreover, Anton Paar now offers 3 years warranty on instruments in conjunction with the recommended maintenance intervals.
Beckhoff Automation Limited
Beckhoff implements open automation systems based on PC Control technology. The product range covers Industrial PCs, I/O and Fieldbus Components, Drive Technology and automation software. Products that can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and seamless control system are available for all industries. The Beckhoff “New Automation Technology” philosophy represents universal and open control and automation solutions that are used worldwide in a wide variety of different applications, ranging from CNC-controlled machine tools to intelligent building automation.
Caliber Design
Caliber Design is a consultancy that provides project-based mechanical design engineering services. Our team of 30+ highly skilled and experienced engineers are based in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Christchurch. Our engineers work on-site with clients on a project-by-project basis, this means our clients can upsize their team with the exact skills they need, when they need them.
Much of our work is in the food technology industry. Our experience includes heating and cooling systems, multiple lane conveyors, palletisers, up lifters, process and packing lines, freezers, refrigeration, and production equipment for the meat processing industry, and more.
We design for safety, hygiene, assembly, reliability, serviceability, and longevity, while minimising costs. Our engineers are experienced in all aspects of the design process, from scoping through to parts procurement, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning.
Shortage of resources? Looming deadline? Skill gap that needs to be filled? Caliber Design has talented engineers that can help.
PO Box 29488
Riccarton
Christchurch 8440
New Zealand
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Waikato Innovation Park First Floor Gallagher Core Facilities Building 1 Melody Lane
Hamilton
Hamilton 3216
Hamilton
AsureQuality
We are a leading provider of food assurance services to Aotearoa’s primary and food production sectors. Sharing and applying knowledge and insights from over 100 years’ experience, we are dedicated to helping our partners uphold what Aotearoa stands for in food – a higher standard of quality and safety.
Needscope: The Psychology of Choice
Some matters of taste are set in stone. Dogs rule, cats drool. Purple and green should never be seen. But when it comes to what we drink, Kiwis’ tastes change like traffic lights, says the team at Coca-Cola.
Using a groundbreaking New Zealand innovation (Needscope) that matches our choices to emotions rather than fixed demographics, the team at Coca-Cola has discovered what makes us tick when we’re in front of the fridge.
The truth is, we’re a fickle bunch. While water is the drink of choice for many, almost nobody drinks water all the time, no matter how health-conscious they are. “We are hard-wired not to do without,” says Coca-Cola knowledge and insights manager Carl Edkins. “We often don’t want to make compromises.”
Just like some people’s voices change when they pick up the phone or visit their elderly grandmother, different situations and emotions change our taste every moment of every day.
Instead of the traditional marketing demographics, which put us in rigid boxes like ‘household spender aged 25-34’, or ‘male, married with two kids, over 40’, our drinks choices can be roughly divided into six emotion-driven flavours: vibrancy, affiliation, tranquillity, composure, superiority and bravado.
Kiwis make around eight drinks choices a day based on our moods, whether we’re feeling insecure and need to show our superior taste (think a sophisticated drink like a Schweppes tonic water and mixer), or we’re at a beach party and we’re in the moment (something fizzy, fruity and calories be damned). The next morning, we may well be reaching for that soothing glass of water, as the guilt hits.
“You need to have an option available for each one of these needs when you walk into a store,” Edkins says.
And our options are set to expand. While Kiwis are spoilt for choice when it comes to drinks that tempt our risk-taking love of adventure (our bravado emotion), such as energy drinks, sports drinks and bottled water for hardcore fitness enthusiasts, we’re behind the Aussies when it comes to drinks that show our superior discernment.
As our population boom opens the door to niche products – and as more of us leave the age of mountain-running on weekends – Edkins says New Zealanders can expect more exotic choices that set us apart from the usual soft-drink crowd. In the future, we’ll be choosing more natural ingredients like stevia, or anything that screams ‘individual’.
Think iced coffee with the latest miracle spice or goats’ milk infused with wild orchid – although on a hot day, of course, nothing’s going to beat an ice-cold Coke.
The Six Taste Moods
- Vibrancy – That feeling of being alive. It’s tangy, it’s fizzy. It has an umbrella in it. Drink match – sparkling white sangria.
- Affiliation – Feeling part of a group. It’s what everyone else is drinking. Drink match – Coke, beer.
- Tranquility – Relaxation time. It’s like a hug in a mug. Drink match – herbal tea, hot chocolate.
- Composure – When you want to be in control of your emotions. It’s good for you. Drink match – water.
- Superiority – You want something that makes you feel like a boss. It’s an acquired taste. Drink match – elderflower and cucumber, Campari and soda.
- Bravado – Wahoooooooooo!! A bottle could power a small mountain kingdom. Drink match – Powerade, Demon Energy
About Needscope
- Consumer research and brand planning system
- Developed in New Zealand in the late 1990s
- More than 8000 studies in 80+ countries and countless markets.
Amatil X: On the Lookout for the Future
Coca-Cola Amatil has announced the launch of Amatil X, a new platform for emerging possibilities to power growth beyond Coca-Cola Amatil’s core business.
The new venture will support the development of concepts, start-ups and early-stage businesses that anticipate and address customer needs, and is a way for Coca-Cola Amatil to find new avenues of growth. Group managing director Alison Watkins says the world of customers is changing quickly, with increasing expectations driven by technology. “While remaining focused on our core is critical, we need to find new avenues of growth. We want to continue to challenge ourselves to provide our customers with ‘Only at Amatil’ experiences,” she says. At the core is AX Ventures, a multi-million dollar corporate venturing programme that has been set up to invest in future revenue growth opportunities outside of Amatil’s current business – and beyond innovation in beverages which sit within the core business. Investment opportunities will be identified via two avenues:
- Xcelerate – a corporate accelerator programme to operate in New Zealand and Australia powered by leading start-up accelerator BlueChilli. Xcelerate will seek applications from entrepreneurs and early-stage companies, gaining first-hand access to emerging technologies and trends; building a pipeline of investible businesses; and supporting the overall start-up ecosystem in New Zealand and Australia. Applications for Xcelerate opened last month.
- Xponential – an employee venturing programme. Xponential will leverage Amatil’s existing innovation programmes and other initiatives to identify internal opportunities for AX Ventures to invest.
Importantly, the programmes within AmatilX are not open to proposals for new beverages, and do not compete with existing innovation pipelines provided by brand partners including The Coca-Cola Company, Watkins says. Instead, there are three broad themes:
- Millions of moments of impact: concepts for creating a sustainable future
- One step ahead: concepts for redefining the customer experience; and
- Route to me: concepts for exploring alternative ways of getting customers what they want, when and where they want it.
The programmes will leverage Coca-Cola Amatil’s ability to rapidly test and validate relevant ideas and prototype solutions which improve the customer experience or create potential revenue streams.
At the end of the programme, AX Ventures will review participants for further investment. “Our team has been examining rapidly evolving companies across various sectors in Australia and overseas for the past six months,” Watkins says. “The result is Amatil X. Our aspiration is for Amatil X to set the benchmark for how to bridge the gap between large established corporations and the agility and innovation of start-up businesses, so that we leverage entrepreneurs to help fuel our growth agenda. We are investing today for tomorrow’s growth. We want the start-up community to know we’re open for business and supporting both the start-up community ecosystem, and the New Zealand and Australian economies.” www.ccamatil.com
The Rise Of The Millennial
If your Millennial offspring have stayed living at home pleading poverty, yet waste what ‘little’ they have on copious takeaway flat whites and smashed avocado, are you forgiven for being miffed? Kiwi consumer spending specialist Marketview managing director Stephen Bridle says yeah, nuh, maybe.
Millennial consumers in New Zealand have been labelled as big spenders, wasting their money on smashed avocado and takeaway coffee. And there’s more than a bit of truth to the epitaph.
In a report analysing spending behaviour by consumers aged 25-29, Marketview found that over the past eight years, these consumers have increased their spending by 56%, outstripping their growth in population.
Much of Millennial’s spending growth is due to a growing interest in eating out… whether it be cafes, restaurants, bars or fast food, Millennials really are dining out much more than previous generations.
With their preoccupation with convenience, takeaways are an increasingly popular purchase for this age group – our spending figures revealed that in 2017, Millennials spent more on takeaways than they did at clothing, footwear, health, beauty, pharmacy and cosmetic stores combined.
We also identified that Millennials have a strong preference for online shopping, with spending growth for nearly all online categories outstripping their bricks and mortar equivalents.
Figures show that since 2009, these consumers have more than tripled the amount they spend online, now allocating 10% of their spending budgets to online purchases. Popular online categories for Millennials are fashion, accommodation and, increasingly, groceries and food, encouraged by convenience and growing availability.
While many industries both on and offline are benefitting from Millennial money, figures from Marketview identified an emerging trend with potential to impact the wider retail landscape… younger consumers are increasingly spending their money outside the central cities.
In the past eight years, spending by Millennials in non-metro areas increased by more than 50%, while the CBDs of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch combined only saw a 14% increase in spending from these consumers.
As young people increasingly turn to online options for their everyday shopping needs, the concept of the CBD and ‘High Street’ is becoming somewhat redundant, at least to Millennials. As they no longer need to head out to the shops in the city every weekend, Millennials are breathing life back into the ‘local village’, bringing business back to their communities as they go out for coffee, drinks and dinner in their local neighbourhoods – a phenomenon we are only seeing increase as this group grows.
Millennials are not to be underestimated in their spending power and ability to alter the retail environment. Retailers need to pay attention to the preferences and spending patterns of this generation if they want to profit from what is a highly valuable group of consumers, and not be left behind.
Wellington-based Marketview (https://marketview.co.nz/) analyses consumer spending patterns from reliable sources across all categories, enabling a deeper understanding of how consumers behave and helping clients across a range of industries to understand what is driving their sales growth or decline.
NZ Controls Ltd
Since 2005 NZ Controls have been a major engineering service provider to NZ Industry. Embracing Industry 4 technologies, our customer focused team of 35+ engineers are learning these technologies before our customers demand them, so we are ready to apply them to our local industry. NZC accesses the worlds most advanced products, provides local engineering for process automation solutions, and brings them together to offer a world class service. We are a supplier of Ignition SCADA, and gold certified provider of Seeq advanced process analytics, working across F&B, Water, Utilities, OEMs and other sectors. Our process is simple Consult – Design – Deliver.
As a trusted partner, we help drive value by delivering end to end solutions and fully customised services. Core to our business are the following services:
• Data & Digitisation – SCADA, HMI, Historian, Dashboards, Data Analytics, IIoT,track & trace, MES
• Automation & Controls – Functional designs, PLC & HMI Programming, SCADA, Safety control
• Electrical Engineering – Design & drafting, Specification, MCC design & Deliver, EPLAN solutions
• Machine & Process Safety – Safety risk assessments, Safety requirement specification, Safety Design, TUV certified engineers
Eriez Magnetics Pty Ltd
Eriez is a leading manufacturer of process, inspection and metal contaminant removal systems for the Australasian food industries. Eriez’ range of metal detectors, magnetic separators and vibratory feeders, screeners and conveyors are designed to enhance the production of food and ingredients. Products range from the Xtreme Metal Detector, ultra-strong RE7 magnetic separators including plates, manual and self-cleaning grates, traps and tubes, to the highly accurate vibratory feeders – both electromagnetic and electromechanical. Eriez metal detectors can be combined with separators to provide ultimate protection against both ferrous, non-ferrous and martensitic or work-hardened stainless steels. Equipment audits, inspections and testing can be arranged anywhere in the world to ensure detectors and magnets are compliant with the HACCP International Food Safety Standards. Eriez develops its range of innovative equipment to ensure your product purity, from the moment ingredients enter the plant to the time the final packaged product is shipped. Eriez is recognized as world authority in separation technologies.
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P.O. Box 33437
Barrington
Christchurch 8244
New Zealand
NDA Group
NDA Group are New Zealand’s leading Engineering / Fabrication, Site Installation & Maintenance and Equipment providers for the dairy, wine, water, industrial and food processing industries.
NDA Equipment is an agent for several international ranges of process and packing equipment plus providing engineering equipment including tube cutting and weld preparation.
We have permanent assembly, installation and maintenance services in Hamilton, Rolleston, Hawera and Timaru plus other NDA divisions in Blenheim and Invercargill.
For you this means that, wherever you are in New Zealand, there will be a convenient option for you.
We’ll work with you throughout your equipment’s lifespan – from ordering and installing to maintenance, spare parts management and replacement. We’ll know your equipment inside and out and will be able to give you the best possible advice.
Talk to our Equipment team today and find out more about what NDA Group can provide for you.
Aurora Process Solutions
Aurora Process Solutions is a recognized leader in the process equipment industry. Our experience, technical knowledge, product range, system solutions and back-up service capabilities unlock process potential through Australasia and beyond.
Specialists in…
• Bag and sack filling and closing
• Robotic & Conventional Palletising
• Bulk Bag handling
• Stand alone units or full line automation
• Floveyors and product conveying
Satisfied clients, using solutions that add value to their product is a key focus of Aurora’s as they work to ensure projects are delivered satisfactorily from concept to completion.
Unlock Your Process Potential!
Spray Nozzle Engineering Ltd
Spray Nozzle Engineering supplies innovative spraying solutions to the New Zealand and Australia markets. The company offers solutions to several industries such as dairy, food and beverage, mining, fire protection, pharmaceutical, paper, steel, automotive and more.
Any application involving the use of liquid and air in the application of cleaning, coating and spraying is covered by their extensive range of products and engineered solutions.
As a leading spraying specialist, the company has engineered systems for coating, spraying, cooling, coating, blow-drying, clean in place (CIP), washdown, tank cleaning, sanitising, and much more.
Reel Tech, an Australian based company with branch offices in New Zealand and a member of the Spray Nozzle Engineering group. Reel Tech is a specialist in hose and cable reels and is the exclusive Hannay distributor in Australia. Custom made hose reels is Reel Tech speciality. We have designed and built many specialised hose reels that can be tailored to any application.
Donaldson Australasia Pty Ltd
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world’s most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more.
With our extensive product portfolio, advanced technology, and unrivaled support and expertise, choose Donaldson filtration solutions for maximum protection of your operation and reputation.
Wyong
NSW 2259
Australia
Zymus International Ltd
Zymus are product formulators and suppliers. We have been supplying the food and beverage industry with Flavours, Colours, Enzymes and Food Ingredients for over 30 years.
We provide innovative solutions for the Food and Beverage Industry, offering a comprehensive service to find winning solutions for our customers.
Our history of achievements includes product development, particularly with flavours and enzyme systems, for both the New Zealand and Australasian markets.
Let us help you bring your products to life!
1 Smidmore Street
Marrickville
Sydney 2204
Australia
Pacific Flavours & Ingredients Ltd
We are 100% New Zealand owned and operated, manufacturing specialised flavours and ingredients as well as sourcing from our worldwide supply partners. The original family values and specialist technical team are still the core of how we operate. Customers are at the heart of our business, they come first. We do our very best to ensure the experience our customers and suppliers have with us adds value along the chain, from unparalleled service, R and D support, to follow up.
We are able to provide supply and development support for the following industries:
Beverage
Bakery
Collagens
Confectionery
Cosmetic
Dairy
Meat
NZ Extracts
Omegas
Formula Foods
Formula Foods designs and manufactures flavours right here in New Zealand. Our team of scientists utilise advanced technologies to make tailor made flavours from base natural materials.
Formula Foods is 100% New Zealand owned flavour and ingredients company based in Christchurch and Founded in 1987 by David and Christine Rout.
Offering customised solutions with low minimum order quantities and short lead-times is our specialty.
We specialise in working with our valued clients from concept, design and manufacture of exceptional flavours.
Concept Solutions Limited
Concept Solutions is a multi-disciplined engineering company that specialises in the design and manufacture of a wide range of processing equipment and conveyor systems to various manufacturing and processing industries.
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PO Box 7553
Sydemham
Christchurch 8023
New Zealand
Detectaclean Ltd
Detectaclean is a leading supplier of metal and X-ray Detectable products used in the production of food, beverage and pharmaceuticals. A comprehensive range of cost effective products are available: Storage and food handling, cable ties, earplugs, disposable safety PPE, safety knives, engineering plastics and a full list of stationery. There is also a huge range of HACCP compliant brushware with antimicrobial resistant and detectable Resin-Set DRS® Technology that helps prevents loss of brush filaments. Detectaclean products can be used in conjunction with the HACCP benchmark; food processors can have every part of their HACCP and hygiene program covered.
Hauraki Beverage Company Limited
Manufacture and development of beverage products. Flavour Burst sports drinks, milkshakes and syrups to liqueurs, spirits and RTD’s. Distributors of beer and wine kits, Coopers, Muntons, Morgans. Manufacturers of the Brewmaster and Spirits Unlimited. Contract Bottling of miniatures a specialty. Blending, batching and product development. Export of concentrates, hops and ethanol. Suppliers of natural and compound favours to the food industry.
Technical Service, catalogue and ingredient samples available.
