8 | 2022 Grand Business South Awards: Site Weld NZ Ltd Richard Loader Site Weld at home with big players REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Being nominated as fiinalists in the 2022 Grand Business South Awards, alongside Farra Engineering and United Machinists stamps Site Weld NZ Ltd’s rightful place as a respected engineering practice in the Otago region. “It was really great to be nominated alongside two businesses that we highly respect,” says General Manager Stephanie Olsen, who co-founded Site Weld with her husband Adrian ten years ago. “It reaffirms that what we are doing as a local business is pretty special and that we are making a really nice product. On the night United Machinists took the award away, but it was wonderful to be part of the evening with these amazing businesses. “When you start out as a sole trader, as we did, and grow to forty-four staff, you still feel like a little business in Dunedin. Then people tell you that you’re actually a big player in the market, and you think, you know we actually are. So, it’s changing that mindset.” Having never entered the awards previously, the team at Site Weld felt the time was right to showcase what the business does, the diverse skills and talents of its experienced team, and that it is now an established part of Dunedin’s engineering landscape. “We entered a number of different award categories, but Excellence in Manufacturing was the one that we were Finalists in. “A lot of the products that we manufacture are for the mining sector and the specific product that we entered was a system that we designed and built for underground ventilation in underground mines, and is currently being used by OceanaGold in the Macraes and Waihi operations.” With a workshop in Dunedin, the vast majority of Site Weld’s work comes from the local area, but as the company’s reputation has expanded its geographic reach of operation has expanded into Otago and other South Island regions. “It has been a hard slog, but a really good one,” says Stephanie. “The business started just as a small general engineering business and slowly progressed with opportunities at the Macraes mine. “Our core customer sectors are the mining industry and heavy transport. We do a lot with the Councils and we have a lot of structural steel projects happening at the moment. “So, we have a real mix and a broad skill set. We always say nothing too big, nothing too small. Our smallest customer is the local Chinese takeaway who gets us to fix their fish and chip crates.” Site Weld’s diverse operations include stainless steel and heavy steel fabrication, a structural steel division and a machine shop equipped with state-of-the-art profile cutting machinery. Four service trucks continue to provide onsite servicing and the company is involved in a number of high-profile projects in and around Dunedin, including piling work at Dunedin Hospital. But it is Site Weld’s new business brand called ENEX that is generating great excitement within the Site Weld team. ENEX designs and delivers the manufactured products like the one entered into the Grand Business South Awards, and earning Site World its place as a finalist. “We will always want to service our core customers, but we’re very excited that manufacturing will feature strongly in our future. Future proofing our business might mean that we morph into ENEX and retain a Site Weld division. Hydrau l i cs | Pneumat i cs | Di agnos t i cs | Eng i neer i ng A local team repairing your plant and machinery at our workshop or onsite Great Service, Quality Products We are searching for our next team member. Work on Hydraulic, Engineering or mechanical challenges love solving problems and learning on the job. Give Glenn a call. 021 295 0084 Know Someone Looking For Work?
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