Sectors

Industries we power.

From sawmills and apple packhouses to freeze driers, wineries and refrigeration plants — we engineer the control systems behind New Zealand industry.

Food, beverage & horticulture

From orchard to bottle to packing line.

Food and beverage plants run on tight margins and tighter compliance. We design control systems that handle recipes, batch records, sanitation cycles and CIP — without bringing the line down to change a setpoint.

  • Apple & kiwifruit packhouse automation — grading, sizing, palletising
  • Winery process control — fermentation, transfer, filtration, bottling lines
  • Freeze drier batch control & recipe management
  • Food processing line PLC retrofits with minimal production loss
  • Track-and-trace for compliance & recall protection
  • OEE dashboards and downtime root-cause analysis

Clients in this sector

  • Pic’s Peanut Butter
    Production line automation, downtime visibility, control upgrades since 2023
  • Major Nelson apple packhouse
    Packhouse retrofit — Modicon M340 PLC with 30-drive Altivar network on CAN Open
  • Cuddon Freeze Dry
    Electrical design, switchboard build, machine wiring & commissioning for freeze drier systems

Clients in this sector

  • Active Refrigeration
    Smart controls, energy-efficient components and advanced monitoring across NZ-wide refrigeration installs

Need an automation partner for an industrial refrigeration project? We’ve already done the integration work — drives, sensors, alarming, telemetry.

Refrigeration

Industrial refrigeration that runs cold, quiet and visible.

Refrigeration plants are unforgiving — compressor trips, sensor drift or a missed alarm and product is at risk. We integrate smart controls, energy-efficient drives and remote monitoring so refrigeration assets stay where they should be, all of the time.

  • Compressor and condenser PLC control
  • Smart controls integration with monitoring & alarming
  • Energy-efficient VSD & motor optimisation
  • Remote performance monitoring & reporting
  • Refrigeration plant safety & compliance integration
Wood, forestry & timber processing

Sawmills, kilns and timber line automation.

Timber processing plants run 24/7 with massive line speeds and ageing PLC infrastructure. We retrofit, modernise and optimise — keeping the line running while we do it.

  • Sawmill line PLC control & upgrades
  • Sawmill vision system integration (e.g. Woodeye saw integration)
  • Kiln drying control & recipe management
  • Drive network design (CAN, EtherNet/IP, Profinet)
  • Live-line PLC retrofits to minimise production loss

Clients in this sector

  • Nelson Pine Industries
    Trusted electrical and automation contractor across one of NZ’s largest timber processors — machinery, power, lighting and controls

Specialised expertise in continuous-process plants where downtime is measured in tonnes per hour.

Built for resilience

  • Redundant comms — cellular failover & store-and-forward telemetry
  • Asset visibility — every pump, every site, one pane of glass
  • On-call integration — alarms route to the right person, every time
Water & utilities

Pump stations, treatment plants & telemetry.

Water and wastewater assets can’t go offline. We design control systems that run reliably for years, communicate over flaky rural links, and call out to the right person the moment something needs attention.

  • Sewage and wastewater treatment plant automation
  • Pump station control & SCADA integration
  • Dosing, filtration and UV treatment automation
  • Remote telemetry over cellular & radio
  • Reservoir & reticulation monitoring
OEM machine builders

The automation team behind your machine.

If you build machinery, your customers expect the controls to be every bit as good as the mechanical engineering. We become the embedded automation arm your business needs — without you carrying the headcount.

  • Control system design & PLC programming
  • Standardised, reusable code libraries you own
  • Custom control panels to AS/NZS 61439
  • CE / AS-marked control system documentation
  • FAT & on-site commissioning anywhere in NZ
  • Long-term support agreements

Why OEMs work with us

  • Reusable code libraries — your machine, our standards, your IP
  • Documentation that ships — schematics, manuals, test records
  • FAT & SAT support — across NZ & export markets
Different sector?

If it has a PLC, we can help.

We’ve worked in mining, marine, aquaculture, bio-fuel and energy too. Get in touch and tell us what you’re running.

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