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Dust

Hazardous Materials

Heat Loss

Pipes

We are Whakatane Mill Ltd in Bay Of Plenty.  We are your local providers in the Paper & Cardboard category.  Get in touch now!

Welcome to Southern Insulations home page, please take time to look around our website and gain an insight into our Company.

Southern Insulation is one of the leading industrial insulation companies in New Zealand, with four branches situated throughout the country employing a total of around 50 plus full time staff members. Our staff numbers can change from contract to contract with total numbers reaching just under 100 personnel.

The company was formed in 1983 and has expanded and grown over the years to have branches in Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch and Rotorua. We consider ourselves to be one of the two largest insulation companies in New Zealand both by size and turnover, and by far the largest insulation company working in the South Island.

Since humble beginnings Southern Insulation has grown in size and has diversified in all aspects of industrial insulation. This includes acoustics, fire rating, insulation panel work, asbestos removal and audits, mechanical HVAC insulation, Industrial Insulation from boilers and tanks to geothermal plants.

Over the years, Southern Insulation has worked from Kaitaia to Stewart Island and everywhere in between as well as Australia and the Pacific Islands.

Our Client base includes universities, paper mills, the aluminium smelter, the petroleum and bitumen industry, the building industry, the dairy and meat industry and fishing and timber. If it involves steam, hot water, acoustics or refrigeration, then we have done it.

Specialist crane hire and transport team
The team can help you assess what to use for your task, be it supplying cranes for shutdown work at pulp and paper mills, lifting a house or craning and transporting a geothermal drilling rig; we can help you choose the most appropriate equipment and methods.


Considerable experience
Our team has considerable experience in supporting companies working in the following sectors and on particular jobs including:

Pulp and paper industry
Drilling rig maintenence and shifting
Building removal
Plant shutdowns
Site maintenance
Tree removal
Structural steel placement
Pre-cast panel work
Certified load pilots
Power station / sub station work
Over-dimensional transport
General Taxi Work
Any equipment required e.g. spreader beams, mancages, swift lifts etc come at no extra cost with the crane.

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