Armatec has achieved the silver stage in the New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) Resource Wise Business Program.
The audit conducted by NPDC waste minimisation officers showed 64% diversion of waste from landfill to alternative solutions such as recycling or reuse. Acheiving silver status.
Our passionate team is now focused on working to the next goal towards zero waste - gold status (70% diversion) and participating in our local mentoring program to encourage and support other organisations to reduce their waste to landfill.
More about the NPDC zero waste 2040 goal and Taranaki's waste minimistation plan is available on their website.
From Tuesday 28th April our workshop production team is operating with NZ [covid19 safe level 3 practices][1]. [1]: https://covid19.govt.nz/businesses-and-employees/businesses-and-services/doing-business-at-alert-level-3/#resources-and-sector-specific-guidance
We look forward to help doing our bit to help the economy get going again, safely. Like many of you, we have been working hard over the lockdown to ensure that our staff that need to return to our workplace can do so safely - and have employed new ways of working to maintain safe physical distance. Our more flexible teams will continue to work remotely to further improve physical distancing.
We will be able to help with enquiries, quotes, engineering and technical support. Get in touch with us via enquiries@armatec.co.nz or via phone directly - see www.armatec.co.nz/contact-us for numbers.
To our customers and friends globally in this unprecidented global pandemic. We know many are suffering hardship in this difficult time, and our thoughts and best wishes are with you.
Stay strong everybody.
We look forward to collaborating in new ways, working together for our shared 'post covid19' future.
From our team to yours, we hope you, your family and your wider team are safe and well in this unprecidented global Covid-19 pandemic. Our NZ and UK staff are now in full community quarantine.
The workshop stays available for essential services only, and we can respond to these. Our manufacturing facilities are quick start, and all of our factory staff are available at short notice. Site works on essential services are on a case-by-case basis, with additional controls as per NZ level 4 alert requirements.
While the workshop is closed to non-essential services, we will be accepting orders during the shutdown period and scheduling them for the return back.
From our home to yours - stay safe and well
Kia Kaha, Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui
Team Armatec
The Water NZ 2019 conference & exhibition, 18-20 Hamilton, NZ. This event provided a great opportunity to discuss innovations, challenges and solutions with water industry professionals.
Our Armatec team was keen to share the new GDOF18-ARV and Microscrubber. These items are some of our most recent developments made possible by working with customers to solve their issues with innovative designs. Featured on the stand was:
Rectangular GDOF-18ARV - latest innovation - built for above-ground air release valves. The design controls odour release, contains spills and provides a battery-powered signal with 3G to enable SCADA network connection. Enabling IoT, odour control in tight urban spaces, protects against sewage spills and is safer by design for operators.
Microscrubber - our compact 2-stage odour control technology for the urban environment. This microscrubber proved popular with stand visitors keen to peek under to the hood at the full-scale demonstration unit.
Vortex dropper - 3D printed model. This generated plenty of discussions… why not reduce corrosion, dosing and odour control needs in networks, transmissions, and pump stations using vortex droppers?
Re-imagining the water sector with increased efficiency, safety and effectiveness is a responsibility for all of us, and we are well on the way with so many dedicated professionals committed to taking the journey. This year with water policy and strategy review underway, it has also been an opportunity to discuss trends for water health and how we can all engage as kaitiaki to ensure te mana o te wai.
This conference has enabled valuable discussions with clients, suppliers, designers, consultants and industry thought leaders to stimulate ideas, understand problems and search for solutions.
A huge thank you to Water NZ for organising.
Mauri Ora!
Composite materials already bring so much value to industry, combining high strength with low weight and corrosion-resistant properties. And in many cases, low environmental impact as well.
ECOCOMP 2019, held in Coventry, UK, on June 19-20, was about improving the environmental footprint of the composites industry across all stages of the life cycle – from design to raw materials to life cycle analysis and recycling.
Numerous efforts are being made throughout the industry, including:
Take recycling carbon fibres for example. This process uses 10% of the energy required to produce virgin carbon fibres, and the resulting product costs 40% less. This is a clear win for both industry and the environment.
With efforts like this being made across the composites industry, we are well on the way to reducing our environmental impact and protecting our world for generations to come.
The ECOCOMP Conference was well worth attending & we look forward to exploring how these innovations can be included in our business activities.
Highlights from ECOCOMP Conference, from Armatec Business Manager Europe & Middle East; Shane Pope MEMgt, BEng(Chem)
Looking forward to catching up with all those attending the NZTIWF next week! This year Todd Landers is making the trip.
Not registered? Jump on the website: www.confer.nz/iw2019/register Details below -
Industrial Waters Conference 2019 10-12 April 2019, Dunedin
The 2019 Conference Committee would like to extend a warm invitation out to organisations dealing with water and waste issues, members from all sectors of the industry including scientists, Regional and Territorial Authorities, engineers, suppliers and liquid waste operators.
The group is primarily focused on providing real time solutions to issues facing the Industry, developing national standards and working together as an industry to develop sustainable processes that protect infrastructure and the environment.
One of the themes for the 2019 conference is around the water reform and by the time the conference starts we will be in a better position to discuss what voice we want to put forward. Along with the water reform we will be discussing the pitfalls of incorrect treatment processes and the impact of tourism on the wastewater industry.
With this conference, we look to bring together like-minded people, share in the experiences we have had, discuss the issues we have faced, grow new connections and relationships and hopefully solve or work through potential solutions to current issues.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Register for Industrial Waters Conference 2019 at www.confer.nz/iw2019/register
Celebrating a win for the combined Armatec & Anzco, A Team. Winners of the 10th Anniversary of Trades Apprentice Safety Challenge in Taranakion on 16 May 2018. Vini Purcell & Iurii Makarenko from Armatec joined forces with Josh Moyle & Bradly Engelberger from Anzco completing the various challenges to take home the top prize, The Master Builders Apprentice Safety Trophy. Second place went to TCM and Clem Electrical, with Fonterra Mechanical receiving third place.
The A Team: Vini Purcell & Iurii Makarenko (Armatec), Josh Moyle & Bradly Engelberger (Anzco)
“The competition consists of a range of practical challenges focusing on safety topics such as first aid, fire safety, working at heights, physical fitness, violence prevention, road safety, and manual handling. The activities are run by local safety groups and construction companies. This year, NPiS and the Taranaki Rural Support Trust ran an activity on mental health and wellbeing.”
Both Vini and Iurii have completed their apprenticeship training through the NZ Marine & Composites Training ITO and are a valued part of our fabrication team here at Armatec. It was great to receive positive remarks from the officials at the event, feeding back that Iurii and Vini are an amazing credit to our company. As with all of our team members we are proud to have them represent Armatec Environmental. Well done guys!
Vini and Iurii complete part of the strength challenge
The annual event is run by Taranaki Construction Safety Group, a volunteer group dedicated to promoting health and safety in construction and building industries in Taranaki.
More information on the background of the annual event and photos of the 2018 event are available on supporter sites, NP Injury Safe and Be Safe.
Encouraging all industry participants to make a submission for Worksafe consultation on styrene emissions. Managing Director, Ken Holyoake, penned this article featured in Composites Association of NZ, Flexi Mag published June 2018. Submissions close 15 June 2018.
http://composites.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Flexi-Magazine-June-2017.pdf
Odour and the Human Nose Instruments for sensing odours have made great strides in recent years, but they still lag well behind the human nose.
At the 2017 Odour Management Conference in Los Angeles attended by Armatec’s Managing Director Ken Holyoake were the latest developments in odour instrumentation. This included laboratory and field olfactometry, GCMS, and a large range of sensors for individual compounds. This space is changing rapidly and Armatec is keeping up with developments to bring to our customers. However the human nose still remains the most complex sensor for odour.
Human Nose AKA Odour Sensing Device Did you know our human nose has over 1,000 sensors, and is far more sensitive than any instrument yet developed? The process of odour detection in humans involves absorption of the odour molecules into mucus, then a chemical reaction with a nose sensor, and a resulting electrical signal is sent to the brain to interpret and respond. When we are born we have no knowledge of what is a bad odour and what is a good odour.
Image courtesy of Scentroid, Odour Management Conference, Los Angeles 2017
Good & Bad Odours With experience we learn what is good and bad to smell and our brain develops a database of memories for understanding future odour events. In this manner bad and poisonous gases are typically detected at very low concentrations by the human nose (low odour thresholds) and the human responds appropriately with for example, 'flight or fight response' in order to survive. Conversely good odours such as from food attract humans and animals for obvious reasons. Odour evaluation by humans is therefore a psychological response and not a purely physical one.
Nuisance Odour Because odour sensing develops over a lifetime, odour perception varies from individual to individual. Odour perception depends on an individual’s sensors, past experiences, and sensitivities. In this way odours can readily be a nuisance, and can affect the physical health, psychological health, and induce social and emotional affects in our communities. While the effects are different for different people, the need to address nusiance odour to protect our population and environment remains.
Reducing and Detecting Odours Armatec Environmental Ltd’s role in this field is to contain and control odours released from physical processes and sites. The result - reduced odours to less than nuisance level outside a plant’s boundary. Therefore Armatec and its customers need instrumentation to quantify odours and the effectiveness of odour control measures to provide performance data and an agreed measure. One common example is hydrogen sulphide gas detectors, for which Armatec recommends Acrulog.
Written by Ken Holyoake, Managing Director of Armatec Environmental Ltd Dated: 5th December 2017 Acknowledgements: Scentroid for material from their ‘Odour Workshop, 2017’
Akzo Nobel are the Licensor of our ‘Ceilcote’ range of heavy duty coatings that we have been successfully supplying and installing in New Zealand and Australia since the 1980s. Between us we are exploring ways to further strengthen more than 40 years of ‘Ceilcote’ coatings in New Zealand and Australia by increasing offerings and solutions for our customers.
When the service is too severe for other coatings, then the ‘Ceilcote’ coating range will have the answers. We have solved many very difficult corrosion problems at pulp and paper mills, chemical plants, dairy factories, car assembly plants, and more with this coatings technology. Effective containment of corrosive chemicals protects against environmental spills/leaks and corrosion of plant equipment.
Thank you to Darin, Richard and James from Akzo Nobel for making the trip to New Plymouth to discuss.
Find out more about Armatec Ceilcote coatings range here:
Darin, Richard and James from Akzo Nobel visit with Ken and Bryan at Armatec.
The OMCTS 2017 Odour Management Conference brought together leading companies, consultants, researchers, Councils, and more in Los Angeles.
Armatec's Managing Director Ken Holyoake attended the Conference, odour workshop and a site visit to an odour treatment facility run by the Los Angeles Council. The conference confirmed that Armatec's odour control solutions using biotrickling filters and carbon beds are align with the best in the world.
Ken attends breakout workshop
Site Visit to Odour Treatment facility in LA, USA
Ken and Marc
We thoroughly enjoyed our time catching up with everyone at the Water NZ Conference and sharing our new products, knowledge and passion for wastewater and sewage odour solutions to better serve New Zealand.
On show at our display:
We have recently returned from exhibiting at the World Water Congress & Exhibition 2016 hosted by IWA and this time held in Brisbane, QLD Australia.
We found it was an absolultely wonderful event with professionals and exhibitors from around the world sharing their expertise for the greater purpose of better water management - a precious global resource and a truly international challenge.
We thank all those that visited our stand and their interest in our water industry solutions including Green Dome Odour Filters, Biological Scrubbers and other fibreglass, air pollution control and odour control systems, and we wish them well in their travels and future business.
The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals, bringing together over 5,500 water, environment and related professionals from more than 100 countries and offers new insights into how pioneering science, technological innovation and leading practices shape the major transformation in water management that is underway.
As part of the manufacture and factory-commissioning of our fans, we precision-balance all of our full-FRP impellors.
Here is a demonstration of the accuracy of this balancing - a coin standing upright on the fan during installation and commissioning with the fan at full speed. Vibration is minimised and excess noise and energy loss is minimised - meaning the fan is more efficient and less prone to wear & tear. This is with a full-FRP fan impellor blade giving maximum corrosion resistance.
Reference: Job 83172-01 - E3988 - CHP-6 FANS
