| 35 ENGINEERING PW Engineering PW Engineering has a fully equipped CNC-capable machine shop that specialises in general engineering machining and production machining. has designed and manufactured bulk-material-handling equipment that includes conveyors and hoppers, while also successfully completing other significant and sometimes technically challenging projects for many other clients. Maintaining a high standard of professionalism is always a key driver, and this requires recruiting and retaining skilled staff as well as regularly recruiting and training apprentices, who currently number eight. Of these, three are female, with one training as a fabricator and two as fitter -welders, while all the current crop are in their final year. “So we are about to intake a bunch more. There’s a lot of young people wanting apprenticeships; we have to really make some criteria around their qualifications before we take them on because there’s so many wanting to get into the trade.” Farmer’s children are great workers, Nick says. “Some of them turn out to be the best trades people going. They’re fantastic.” • Stock up to 100mm • Drill up to 60mm Ph. 03 477 7277 www.precisionprofile.co.nz OTAGO’S PLATE-CUTTING SPECIALISTS LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED FRP LIMITED www.frp.co.nz
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