It doesn’t get much more Kiwi than this: a brewery run out of a large steel shed just off the Napier–Taupo highway. There’s even a Kingswood ute parked outside. But on closer inspection, there’s also a strong European vibe at Zeelandt Brewery in Eskdale. Zeelandt is the Dutch province New
The Hawke’s Bay Business Hub is maturing into a busy and vibrant resource that’s being well utilised by the local business community. 2018 marks the third birthday of Hawke’s Bay Business Hub. The Hub, as it’s more commonly known, is a key initiative of Business Hawke’s Bay, the business-led economic
It’s a fundraising mission with a difference: fitting out an aging 40-foot container to give it a new lease on life. Repurposing the large, blue shipping container into a multipurpose, habitable and consented transportable building is a major task for the small team at Architecture & Interiors Ltd. Once the
From coffee outlets to homes and offices, container buildings are springing up all over Hawke’s Bay. What’s driving this trend and what are the advantages of doing business out of a metal box? It started in 2011 when Al Borrie opened ‘The Box’ – a modified shipping container transformed into
Pallets and bins may look simple to build but for one of New Zealand‘s largest manufacturers, Tumu Timbers, there’s a level of sophistication that’s getting the best from what others would regard as the off-cuts. Tumu Timbers, based in Irongate Maraekakaho, has been supplying a range of pallets, bins, wooden
Irongate, south of Hastings, has long been earmarked as a “dry industries” hub and as the regional economy continues to boom, that vision is finally being realised. Head south out of Hastings along Maraekakaho Road and just outside the city limits you hit a busy industrial patchwork of large and
