8 | REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Making a valuable contribution ANZCO Food’s Eltham Plant makes a major contribution to the Taranaki region. Venture Taranaki: ANZCO Foods - Eltham • Refrigerated freight • Container Haulage • Swing lifters Bridge Street, Eltham • Phone (06) 764 8205 • www.uhlenbergs.co.nz Industrial Chemistry Services is an IANZ accredited Water testing Laboratory and consulting business in Stratford, Taranaki We have been working with ANZCO Foods at Eltham for more than 20 Years, providing them with Analytical Laboratory Testing and Advice, with services such as Environmental Monitoring; Soil Sampling and Testing; Equipment Calibration; Water Sampling and Testing; Water Treatment Advice and Troubleshooting. We look forward to another 20+ years working together. 06 765 5976 www.icsnz.co.nz Stratford Taranaki 06 765 5976 www.karinawater.com Karina Water is a producer of water treatment chemical with customers throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. We also Build and Operate Potable Water Treatment Plants. Providing solutions throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. Karina Water has been providing ANZCO Foods at Eltham with water treatment chemicals for more than 10 years. Keeping their potable water in top condition with our Flocculants PAC Plus and Chemfloc 2321 Taranaki is an important part of ANZCO Foods’ business with two of the company’s nine red meat operations in the region. The company’s focus is to deliver health, nutrition and wellbeing to world from New Zealand’s finest beef and lamb. ANZCO Foods Eltham employs about 530 people and processes beef while ANZCO Foods Waitara has about 165 employees manufacturing burger patties and jerky. Farmers throughout the region supply the Eltham site which operates year-round with the peak season from March to May. Key international markets for the site are the US, China, and the Middle East. Around a fifth of the products produced at ANZCO Foods Eltham go to the New Zealand market, with the site providing prime steak cuts to restaurants and supplying the ANZCO Foods Waitara manufacturing site that produces hamburger patties for a multi-national restaurant chain and jerky for international customers. “The site has come safely through the Covid pandemic and is still working a yearround double shift despite the industry-wide challenges of acquiring livestock and sourcing labour,” says Troy Lambly, Site Manager of ANZCO’s Eltham and Manawatu plants. “We recognise the labour challenge is a global issue across many industries so we’re focused on looking after our existing team with a range of initiatives, as well as attracting new people to our business. “Scholarships for immediate families of our waged employees has been a really successful programme,” says Troy. “We provide $5,000 a year for up to three years for five students going to university or completing an apprenticeship. The calibre of applications has blown us out of the water and it’s nice to be able to make a difference to these young people’s lives.” “Our ‘What’s your reason?’ recruitment campaign recognises that people come to work for a range of reasons – from helping their families get ahead to saving for an overseas trip, or from keeping fit to paying for hobbies outside work. And we know many people enjoy their work because of their great workmates,” Troy says. “As a big employer in the region we take this responsibility seriously and we have a range of ways we contribute to our communities.” Taranaki rural schools also annually benefit from ANZCO Foods’ Sponsor a School programme. Last year rural primary schools across New Zealand received more than $140,000 from ANZCO Foods with several recipients located in Taranaki. ANZCO Foods has a special focus on the mental wellbeing of employees, farmer-suppliers, and communities. It supports six Surfing for Farmer venues around New Zealand including Opunake in Taranaki. ANZCO also contributes around $300m to the local economy each year through wages and livestock and supplier payments.
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