Focus | JJ Niven Engineering Design and build
Contract engineering
JJ Niven Engineering can design, manufacture, project manage, deliver and commission a wide range of custom-built industrial equipment, including:
JJ Niven Engineering is a nationwide equipment installation and maintenance specialist, undertaking a wide range of remanufacturing, repairs and manufacturing projects, including:
• Pressure vessels
• Wastewater
• Gantry cranes
• Water treatment
• Scissor and stage lifts
• Solid waste
• Conveyors
• Timber-handling equipment
• Timber-handling equipment • Wastewater -management systems • Waste paper recycling
• Machinery installation and maintenance • Hydro power generation maintenance.
• Materials handling.
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The 160-tonne overhead travelling hot metal crane built recently by JJ Niven Engineering Limited for Pacific Steel.
Design and build specialists JJ Niven Engineering Limited has a history of excellence dating back to the 1880s and is now regarded as a leader in overhead crane design and manufacture. The company was formed in 1886 by Jas J Niven and today operates in Palmerston North, providing engineering products and services throughout the country.
Design and build is a large part of the company’s work, with experienced in-house engineers complemented by specialist contractors when required. Design experience covers a wide range of industrial lifting and materials-handling equipment, with JJ Niven combining a can-do attitude with a commercial consciousness to come up with a solution which meets the clients’ requirements. Engineering director Mike Taylor says while JJ Niven has recently completed a 40-tonne crane for Silver Fern Farms at Te Aroha, the company is not simply a crane manufacturer.
Another specialty of JJ Niven Engineering is purpose-built materials-handling conveyors for a wide range of end products.
Fabrication and machining JJ Niven’s extensive and comprehensive fabrication equipment offers customers unlimited capabilities, from small jobs to large onsite contract work. This equipment includes CNC profile cutters, CNC guillotines, NC plate rollers, punch and shears, MIG, TIG and MMAW welding, gantry cranes, band saws and a hydraulic press. JJ Niven’s general engineering work includes metal fabrication and machining, hydraulics, pneumatics and pipework, boiler plate, stainless or mild steel.
Another specialty of JJ Niven Engineering is purpose-built materials-handling conveyors for a wide range of end products.
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JJ Niven Engineering employs inhouse design, manufacture and project management teams which bring a wide range of expertise to every piece of custombuilt industrial equipment they deliver, including cranes, lifts, conveyors, timberhandling equipment and waste management systems.
“Part of the problem we have is people label us,” he says. “In the Manawatu you have to be quite diverse because there’s not a lot of industry. We’re also quite strong at pressure vessels and we do a lot of work in the compressed air industry and have been manufacturing in that area for 40-50 years.”
JJ NIVEN Engineering Ltd
The company’s machine shop houses lathes, NC lathes, a horizontal borer, a large radial drill, a universal mill for the completion of pressure vessel manufacture, general and contract engineering, overhead crane manufacture and factory and plant maintenance. Painting and sandblasting facilities are also available.
• Steel Fabrication • Mechanical Engineering Design & Manufacture • Contract & Jobbing Engineering • Plant Maintenance & Installations • Extensive Machining Capabilities • Gantry Crane Design/Manufacture & Servicing • Pressure Vessel Design & Manufacture
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