| 29 Keeping network open The CCNZ Awards provide a perfect forum to showcase the depth and breadth of projects the company undertakes in the region, T from page 26 In the honourable tradition set by ACM’s founder, Austin Clements, good service, responsiveness, and remaining agile, are the unyielding cornerstones underpinning the Hawke’s Bay company’s success — qualities that have been badly needed in the Bay even before Cyclone Gabrielle made her mark in the region. Austin started the business with just one tipper truck and trailer unit, carting aggregate to forestry sites for roading. The business now owns a number of trucks, which are complemented by subcontractors and owner drivers. On any given day there are up to forty- ive tipper truck and trailer units of varying sizes on despatch throughout Hawke’s Bay, and occasionally making a trip further a ield. The work has evolved too. While forestry continues to be a large customer, ACM partners with a wide range of companies throughout the region supplying and delivering aggregate, primarily for civil work. The scale of the business and its operations are not the only things that have changed. October last year, Austin transferred ownership over to his son Reece and business partners Dan Dodd and Tom Yule forming and ACM (2022) Ltd. The combined abilities of Reece, No slowing down for ACM Wholesale Aggregate Supplies and Cartage Specialist 027 774 6663 www.metalsupplyhawkesbay.co.nz acmetalsupply@gmail.com 42 Severn Street, Napier Dan and Tom enable ACM to continue to run e iciently and successfully grow to what it is today. Based in Napier with an o ice in Mersey Street, Pandora, the company has a materials yard in Severn Street also in Pandora, a truck depot in Onekawa and another materials depot in Hastings. Reece says the bulk of ACM’s work is for civil and roading contractors like Fulton Hogan. “We produce our own materials from our quarries and river extraction sites. The bulk of our work is supplying and delivering aggregate, and we have quite an extensive concrete recycling facility, where concrete from building sites is broken up and used as material for building roads. We also have trucks that are capable of carting hotmix to site.” Since the cyclone the team at ACM has been busy carting large boulders to sites around Hawke’s Bay to ill in holes in roads and drop-outs. Aggregate has also been supplied and delivered to those areas in need, and the team has helped with the clean-up and carting away silt. “Having the capacity to respond to large jobs has been key for us,” says Reece. “Picking up the phone, saying yes and making it happen, just the way dad used to operate, will always be the way we do business.” Bulk units (or 6 wheeler only) available to cart your own material on a contract basis or hourly hire. We specialise in helping companies meet seasonal peaks with cartage support. We can supply and deliver aggregate and top soil material direct from our supply quarry or yard to your site. Please call Austin for more details about this service. OUR SERVICES For your own convenience get your aggregates supplies from our yard in Severn Street. Most of the aggregate supplies are available from our yard. OUR PRODUCTS � Silt � River run � Pea metal � Foundation Fill � Builder’s mix � Top course � Base course � Top soil “We have noticed an increase in frequency in these kinds of events, along with the intensity of them. Road closures, fallen trees and flooding really effects the road users and so responding to that and getting the roads open to a trafficable standard is a big focus for the team.” Andrew says that along with providing an opportunity to support the wider civil contracting community in the region, the CCNZ Awards provide a perfect forum to showcase the depth and breadth of projects the company undertakes in the region, typically entering multiple projects across each category in any given year. “The awards also provide the opportunity to celebrate as an industry. It’s a small industry and we are all in it together. “We know each other and have seen some of the work that people have been doing but it’s nice to get a little bit more detail of what has occurred on those jobs. “It is good recognition for the client as well. They enjoy being part of a successful project and having in showcased to the wider industry. “Part of our success in this award was the high level of collaboration between the business and the client. It will also have been the tools that we use and the quality of work. “We have achieved some really good work over the time that we have had the contract.” Andrew says projects get done by people at all levels and across all roles within a business, with each individual contributing to the overall successful execution, and ultimately client satisfaction. Fulton Hogan East Coast - 2022 CCNZ Hawke’s Bay East Coast Awards REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT “It is a major project, some of which is quite routine with a regular cycle of mowing and spraying. But the biggest challenge is the weather, reacting to storm events.” “The awards provide the opportunity to not only recognise the project but those involved. “If people see that the projects that they have been involved in are being put up for the awards that is great recognition of the contribution they have made. “It’s usually the managers who attend the awards night, but the success really represents the hard work done by all the teams out in the field, and that success is celebrated at local branch meetings.” The Hawke’s Bay East Coast CCNZ awards recognise the region’s top people, companies and projects and in 2021 Hunter Donghi, one of Fulton Hogan’s promising young team members was awarded the Trainee of the Year Award. Shortly after receiving the trophy, Hunter passed away after a brief but brave battle with liver cancer, and the local CCNZ team made the decision to retire the trophy and for it to be retained by his family. A new trophy was introduced called the Hunter Donghi Memorial Trainee of the Year, in recognition of the significant impression that Hunter made in the business. T to page 30
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