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International assurance Quality Being located in New Zealand means Sanpro Industries Limited has to be the best in order to successfully service its international automotive industry customers. The company designs and manufactures machines that make parts for exhaust systems. It was formed in Wellington by the Sanderson family in 1995. While Sanpro Industries was originally a general engineering workshop, the increase in Chinese imports prompted the business to begin specialising in the automotive industry. It is headed by Malcolm Sanderson, who leads a small team of skilled employees. Malcolm is a fitter-turner by trade and began making mufflers in Petone in 1979.
Automotive machinery Today Sanpro Industries supplies machines to major automotive companies throughout the world. While the growth in this market came slowly for Sanpro, its machinery is now considered industry standard. “We have a range of machines that we’ve designed. We’ve been in the industry long enough to know what’s required and we build machines to suit each customer’s different needs,” Malcolm says. Sanpro Industries is a highly developed innovative team of experienced designers and manufacturing engineers with a proven track record of providing solutions to today’s automotive challenges.
The Sanpro Industries team, from left: Jay Lal, Glen Sanderson, Malcolm Sanderson, Shane Sanderson, Nigel Francis and Julia Sanderson.
The company operates leading design software and state-of-the-art machinery to produce its machines. It was recently named a finalist in the Global Gold category of the Wellington Gold Awards.
Local subcontracting work
International standards Sanderson says competing in the international automotive industry means Sanpro has to produce machines to the highest quality standards. “It’s a long way to go from New Zealand to do the installation and to follow up on any technical issue,” he says. “That makes us more determined to do things that are good quality, so they don’t come back. Generally our machines go out and we don’t hear from people. We have that motivation, because it’s so hard to rectify any problems. Our aim is to be the best at what we do, worldwide.”
Sanpro Industries is expanding its capabilities by undertaking subcontracting machining work for other New Zealand companies. “That’s just to increase our capacity and will still be for making machinery for the automotive industry,” Malcolm Sanderson says.
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International relationships Sanpro Industries supplies machines to make automotive parts to customers such as Mercedes Benz and BMW. The company supplied a machine to make C-Class Mercedes Benz mufflers to a South African company. “It’s pretty good to be supplying to Mercedes Benz,” Sanpro director Malcolm Sanderson says. “They’ve had that machine for 18 months.” Sanpro Industries also manufactures machines for BMW in North Carolina. “That is our mainstay business. I’ve just returned from a trip to Germany to install a machine there.”
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