Business View Oceania | January 2021

41 42 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA JANUARY 2021 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA JANUARY 2021 UROXSYS LTD products and often pass them to third parties for the branding and selling.” BVO: What are some of your more innovative product lines? Waddingham: “Along with our innovative coating technology, at least 50 percent of our business is in adhesives, binders and polymers. Some of our unique solutions will improve the durability of roading – five major products are either commercialised or in the process of commercialisation though a major client. We’ve developed epoxies that are mixed with bitumen and used on major motorway projects to give them a much longer lifespan. Polyurethane pothole repair and roading repair products are other unique product lines. We’re currently working on polymer emulsions that are added to bitumen for extremely long-lasting roading. Much of this work has been driven by New Zealand moving to a contract road maintenance model, where contractors have gone from concrete substrates, the company produces advanced adhesives optimised for superior performance and productivity in the flooring and furnishing industries, as well as in civil engineering and construction. Business View Oceania recently spoke with Uroxsys Ltd Director, Robin Jones, and Development Manager, David Waddingham, about the firm’s recent achievements, company culture and intriguing projects in the works. The following is an edited transcript of the conversation. BVO: Can you share some background on the organisation? Waddingham: “The name Uroxsys is a combination of epoxy and urethane systems which summarizes our core technology. We initially started producing commercial flooring coatings and associated products that were typically used in large commercial outfits. But the company has morphed into servicing a range of different markets over the last 30 years. In the early days, we toll manufactured polyurethane hardeners for Dulux and PPG. Then we began tolling for Akzo Nobel, one of the big multinational coating companies primarily for supply into Australasia and Asia. These toll relationships have provided an opportunity to introduce our own technology into the product range of various multinationals via rebranding and marketing arrangements.” “We developed the world’s most durable timber varnish as a spinoff from our own timber flooring technology and that’s marketed globally. This was independently tested in Europe and was by far the most durable varnish system amongst the wide range of products tested, and it also goes on in about half the time of a traditional system. That’s an example of how we developed a world-leading product and plugged it into the marketing machine of a big multinational. We really focus on the development and manufacture of unique Director, Robin Jones