Business View Oceania | Volume 3, Issue 11

25 26 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 3, ISSUE 11 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 3, ISSUE 11 INTAKS NEW ZEALAND L IMI TED customers. If your staff are more efficient and aren’t injuring themselves, wearing their bodies out, or making mistakes due to exhaustion, you don’t have to spend extra time returning to site to fix problems.” INTAKS is run by a team of experienced individuals and supported by a number of external manufacturing partners. The team operates nationwide from a base in Tauranga (Bay of Plenty region), where they utilise a main office and warehouse, and a separate indoor training facility. Mr. Warren explains, “Since a key part of our business model is supplying to scaffold companies, we spend a fair bit of time out on the road helping people set up their business, providing product advice, templates, training, and industry knowledge to help them hit the ground running. And then there’s ongoing support, which can range from regular phone calls on a particular issue or concern, to visiting customer sites. Providing this support is really clients in the residential and commercial sectors, including include group home building companies, builders, painters, roofers, and other sub-contractors, as well as individual homeowners and commercial construction companies. The INTAKS system is extremely versatile, with a comprehensive range of configurations. Set-up is modular, which provides great on-site flexibility. Scaffold and edge protection components are manufactured primarily using aluminium. This means the INTAKS system is very strong but easy to handle. INTAKS scaffolding products are applicable to a variety of customer requirements. They include traditional free-standing scaffolding for residential building or renovation, as well as attaching for maintenance platforms, tilt slab access platforms, and walkways that have commercial applications. INTAKS edge protection products also cover a broad range of client needs, from roof edge protection for residential houses and commercial ‘big sheds’, to edge protection that can be mounted on concrete floors, tilt slabs, parapets, and I-beams on large multi-level buildings. As well as being tried and tested on construction sites for more than 10 years, the INTAKS system has been designed and tested to comply with both scaffolding and edge protection standards in New Zealand and Australia. INTAKS is represented by growing team of people including, Peter Chapman (Managing Director) and Joel Warren (General Manager), who share their expertise and explain the importance of providing construction workers with safe and reliable scaffolding and edge protection systems. Mr. Warren begins, “We have a responsibility to keep workers safe on the job. It’s also about the people who are installing the equipment on site. Since our equipment is lighter, installation doesn’t take a massive a toll on the body like more traditional products, which are usually made from steel. From a business sense, this ups profitability for our