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A Whole Bunch Of Covers
As one of New Zealand’s great family-owned construction companies, with multiple large projects on the go at any given time, Dominion Constructors are always looking for ways to protect their equipment and raw material stockpiles. We love coming up with custom-sized, good-looking solutions for anything and everything they throw our way – from timber stack…
Read MoreWorking Airside
Air Chathams have their main operational base and hangar out at Auckland Airport. The facility serves as the airline’s mainland hub, housing its maintenance operations, customer and management teams, and aircraft fleet parking area. Earlier this year we designed, manufactured and installed (really) large retractable, lightweight screens at the front end of the hangar, so…
Read MoreCustom Solutions
Our customers come to us with problems they need solutions to … If it’s made from flexible PVC fabric, we can design and manufacture solutions for all your needs. Coming up with Smart. Simple. Solutions. is just what we do.
Read MoreImproving Project Deliverables
When Downer NZ were working on the Turitea onshore windfarm near Palmerston North they needed bespoke covers for the turbine tower foundations – covers that would protect the setting concrete and keep the project moving forwards as quickly as possible. Back then we’d never made custom-shaped blankets on quite that (huge) scale. But we do…
Read MoreLarge Scale Shade & Shelter
As part of Auckland Transport’s extensive Matiatia Wharf renewal works on Auckland’s Waiheke Island, Tarpaulin Makers manufactured and installed replacement canopies along the full west and south sides of the ferry terminal. We also designed and installed new canopy sections along the front of the terminal building to extend the shade and shelter components, and…
Read MoreRooftop Cover Up
When a client was considering options for replacing the roof over their large-scale storage shed their construction manager came up with an ingenious idea to save the company a lot of time, money and effort. The idea was to use a large custom-built frame, with some form of covering, which could all be pulled apart,…
Read MoreTotally Bespoke
Prescott Trailers asked us to design and manufacture a very bespoke cover for a smart custom trailer they were building for a client in the horticulture sector. Great, good looking result. And the branding makes it a perfect travelling billboard for their business at the same time. Smart. Simple. Solutions.
Read MoreStall With A View
One of our clients wanted to add an internal “door” to their horse float/truck. Chanel, our custom manufacturing specialist, looked at some options and came up with a clever solution involving two drop screens, zip and a clear window. Happy client. Job done. Smart. Simple. Solutions.
Read MoreBack on the road, same day.
When Booths Transport called us up at 11:00 am on a Friday morning, with a curtain torn in half and the truck and driver in Rotorua, we had to think and act fast to get them back on the road. This level of repair was best done onsite in Tauranga. So the driver headed our…
Read MoreSafe and dry behind the (new) curtains
Shed curtains have become a bit of a specialty for us, and our design and manufacture of them has evolved over time as we have used the knowledge gained from previous projects. We put that knowledge to good use when we produced replacement curtains for Hume Pine Rotorua’s timber drying shed. From old to new…
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