Silverscreen idol Fred Astaire once said to make a success of old age you have to start young – and tomorrow’s leaders are the same. Our future leaders are already amongst us and the Q&M Magazine Editor’s Award recognised three of them at the AQA/IOQ 2017 Conference in Auckland last month.
At the TransDiesel Awards Dinner,...
The second part of our story on catching up with Paul Tidmarsh and Blue Pacific Minerals, his unique minerals business, features the new $10 million processing plant in Tokoroa.
Blue Pacific Minerals (BPM) is in the middle of upgrading its zeolite and perlite process operation (made up of quarrying, drying, crushing, screening,...
This industry veteran has a remarkable knack of turning challenging opportunities and other folk’s cast-offs into great businesses and this time he’s processing unique minerals – big time.
In past issues of Q&M we have covered Paul Tidmarsh’s early business career years with his company Tidco and the manufacturing of the...
Stevensons’ Drury Quarry is one of the largest and most technically advanced in the country and amongst the biggest producers of aggregate in the Auckland region, supplying over a quarter of its needs.
With over 100 years of quarry rock reserves, Stevensons’ Drury Quarry is well placed geographically to supply major new...
ALAN TITCHALL catches up with one of the busiest quarries in the Waikato region and finds out why the pugmill could become a more a common sight in the pit these days.
Over the past four years Huntly Quarry has produce massive volumes of metal for major roading contracts in the northern Waikato. Almost 700,000 tonnes was produced in one...
