UPDATE FROM MARK
However, Stevenson is heartened by its involvement in two of Auckland’s key infrastructure projects, the Greenlane 4th lane extension and the Victoria Park Tunnel project.
Provision of a solid infrastructure is pivotal to the country’s financial growth. Stevenson intends to play its part in supporting the Government’s focus on infrastructure by working in partnership with our clients to build New Zealand’s future. Together we will build the infrastructure from the resources and products that we have produced, tested in our laboratory, supplied and transported.
We place great store on the strength of our client relationships, nurtured over decades of supplying materials, services and expertise in our core businesses of quarrying, mining, engineering and agriculture.
Two of the areas in which we will place extra focus over the coming months are key to building our momentum.
The experience of our engineering business in maintaining heavy machinery and large vehicles for our Drury and Huntly quarries, as well as for Stevenson Mining, has developed core competencies in dealing with complex and specialist plant. This has resulted in new contracts, including rebuilding Solid Energy’s heavy mining equipment.
Mining is in Stevenson’s DNA. Our history of involvement in the industry began in 1948 at Kopuku Mine (now Kopako). We have expertise in maintaining plant in the mining industry as well as mine planning, design and management, water management, overburden removal and haul road construction. This work is supported by a high standard of health and safety and environmental knowledge in this sector.
I am encouraged by the announcements from the Government in the 2010 Budget. These will act as an incentive to businesses and contribute to achieving the Government’s aim of lifting the country’s growth rate. The intention is that the process of shifting the focus from borrowing, consumption and Government spending will lead to increased saving on all our parts and greater investment in productive industries and exporting. If this happens, it can only benefit all of us in the long term.
