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Innovation Benefits Whangarei Girls

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 12:00am

Because many schools were built prior to the current building standards the New Zealand Ministry of Education, in 1998, undertook a nationwide structural survey of all school buildings throughout the country. The result of the survey identified high priority work which was to be completed by...

Durability

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 12:00am

By Graham Hepburn

You only need to look about you for evidence of New Zealand’s long and unbroken love affair with metal roofing.
Alongside weather board villas from the early 1900s with their corrugated iron roofs you’ll often see modern townhouses with standing seam roofs...

Leading The World In Waterbased Coil Coatings

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:00am


“At the last NZMRM Annual Conference, Dr. Lou Gommans from PPG Industries gave an interesting presentation on the coatings technology used to make the paints which coat many of New Zealand’s metal claddings.  Significantly, and unexpectedly, he informed us that NZ leads the way in...

Keeping Our Kids Safe

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:00am

The recent New Zealand documentary, “Are you ready”, brought some sobering reality to the potential effects a Natural disaster could have on our nation. The question was not “if” we have a disaster but more realistically “when” we have one.

In 1998 the New Zealand Ministry of...

Recyclability & Recycling Of Metal Cladding

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Sun, 29/11/2009 - 12:00am

New Zealand Metal Roofing Manufacturers (NZMRM), as does every industry that wants to survive, is looking at the sustainability of their products and member companies.  We have been operating a Sustainability Sub committee for the last two years, and this was a topic at the Adelaide conference...

A New Product To Improve Cut-Edge Performance

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Sun, 29/11/2009 - 12:00am

Pacific Coilcoaters announces that following extensive market research and feedback, they will be offering ColorCote® pre-painted products using a ZAM substrate...

Sustainability

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Mon, 16/11/2009 - 12:00am

New Zealand Steel has been working on it for years.

Article by Jenny Bain, Rooflink Magazine.

Climate change and rising energy costs have seen sustainability and environmental management gain momentum all around the world. In New Zealand the Government has...

Cradle To Cradle : The Life Cycle Of Steel

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Wed, 28/10/2009 - 12:00am

By Graham Hepburn

Steel can be recycled forever without degradation. Recovery is estimated at 85%. 459.3 million tonnes are recycled world wide every year

Every kilogram of recycled steel  saves 12.5 MJ of energy, 86% less air emissions air, 40% less water and 97% less...

Zinc Is Good

Submitted by NZMRM Editors on Tue, 27/10/2009 - 12:00am

Zinc and roofing go hand in hand and have done so since the 1800's. Roofing products incorporating zinc have been used to roof the historic buildings of Paris to the garden shed in your back yard and for very good reason. Zinc is truly an amazing material. Zinc has the ability to protect less...

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