Beneath New Zealand’s largest city, magic is happening: Watercare, the city’s water utility is building a 14.7km underground wastewater tunnel from Mãngere Wastewater Treatment Plant, across the Manukau Harbour to the central city. It’s the largest and most complex wastewater infrastructure project in New Zealand history
According to Dale Timms, General Manager and Director at Envirotank Pty Ltd, product and material acceptance of fibreglass composite technology for underground tanks took close to 30 years.
Technology driven and highly-regulated, vaccine manufacture is a challenging process manufacturing industry. Fibreglass reinforced plastic (FRP) tanks play an important role in process manufacturing by providing safe, non-combustible, non-corrosive storage of raw material inputs, formulated outputs, waste, and effluent.
The Kwinana Nickel Refinery located south of Perth, Western Australia (WA), is the ‘first of its kind in Australia producing premium nickel sulphate used to make electric vehicle batteries. Its industrial equipment required to process the mineral ore is performance and material intensive – built to exacting engineering specifications.
Mining equipment is expected to operate for many decades with ongoing integrity, reliability and productivity in the region’s desert climate that can drop to below zero and rise close to 50 degrees.
The UltraAnalytix™, a non-destructive Pulse Echo Ultrasonic system enables inservice condition assessments on fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) assets such as tanks, pipes and other glass-reinforced polymer (GRP) structures while they are still operating.
