The iconic Hawera Star building, owned by Excel Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Ltd, is now a bespoke state of the art administration hub. Excel purchased the 120 year old heritage building from Stuff Media in 2016. It was leaky and earthquake-prone. It required extensive remodelling. Rivet developed custom stainless steel benchtops as well as decorative […]
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Rivet manufacture and install commercial alcohol distilleries and domestic hobby stills up and down New Zealand – from the BeGin distillery (home of the award-winning Juno Gin) in Taranaki to the cartoonish artistic spectacle which is the Hokonui Moonshine Still in Gore. With experience in hydro-forming spherical vessels and developing exotic metals like brass and
An award – winning new Taranaki health building is attracting attention from around the globe. Te Huhi Raupō (The Taranaki Renal Unit), designed to give patients a warm and inviting functional treatment space, is a work of art. It has won the European Healthcare Design Awards, The Green Building Design New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall
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We’re so honoured and proud to have been the exterior facade installer for this incredible project Ngāmotu House, located in the middle of New Plymouth. It sits opposite another of our exterior cladding projects – The Len Lye Centre – and just down the road from one of our current projects. Photos: Roger Richardson, Rich
The CT1 – A Rivet story The story of the CT1 begins the same way as many of Rivet’s successes – with a customer asking for something unusual. “Can you make us an IBC?” The Intermediate Bulk Container is a sturdy square-ish tank, designed for the transportation of fluids. They’re typically stackable, featuring multiple tie-down
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Ground-breaking architectural stainless façade In 2012, Rivet submitted a tender to fabricate a ground-breaking architectural stainless façade. There were no construction drawings – no plan. Just an idea, which was to wrap a building in curved polished stainless steel. By 2015 the $2.8 million dollar installation was complete, putting Rivet on the map at an
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