OVER 100 YEARS OF CREATIVITY
1914
Applied the first bitumen to a road surface in New Zealand.
1972
Set up the world’s first bagged bitumen patented packaging system.
1981
Made New Zealand’s first polymer-modified bitumen. |
1982
Designed and made the world’s first fully-computerised bitumen sprayers. |
1990
Proposed the establishment of the New Zealand Institute of Highway Technologies. |
1991
Created New Zealand’s first polymer-modified bitumen friction course pavements. |
1992
Developed one of the world’s first fully-computerised micro-surfacing machines for pavements. |
1994
Made New Zealand’s first polymer-modified bitumen emulsions. |
1994
Developed the innovative and patented treatment TECHNISEAL for bitumen-flushed pavements. |
1995
Built and operated New Zealand’s first diesel/electric heated bulk bitumen rail tank cars. |
1995
Introduced the first bulk bitumen containers to the South Pacific Islands. |
1996
Introduced GRIPFIBRE – a polymer-modified bitumen micro-surfacing system – to New Zealand. |
1996
Created and laid New Zealand’s first SAFEGRIP skid-resistant pavement products. |
1997
Became the first company in New Zealand to import cargos of bulk bitumen by a non-oil company. |
1998
Transported the largest storage tank in the world across an ocean by barge from New Zealand to Fiji. |
1998
Built the South Pacific Islands’ first and only bulk bitumen terminal. |
1998
Designed and installed the world’s first floating, ship-to-shore bulk bitumen transfer pipeline. |
2004
Designed and built the world’s first Multigrade bitumen modification plant. |
2005
Became the South Pacific Islands’ first supplier of Multigrade bitumens. |
2005
Started operating the first and only plant in the world that can produce bitumen products to Australian, European, USA and New Zealand specifications. |
2011
Developed the world’s first containerised Technix Bitumen Plant for bitumen modification. |
2015
| Built worlds’ first Technix Bitumen Plant for manufacture of high grade bitumens from oil refinery distillation vacuum bottoms and solvent precipitated asphalts. |
2016
Built the NZ first Technix Multistage Bitumen Plant for the full production of full range of bitumen products including Multigrade. |
2016
Designed and built the world’s first relocatable 10 tonne per hour Bitumen Plants |
2017
Developed and produced world first non-hazardous bitumen cutback as renewable Biocutter replacement for kerosene cutters. |
2017
2018
Designed the Technix 10 tonnes per hour relocatable Multistage Bitumen Plant
2019
2021
Designed and introduced 80 tonnes per hour Technix Multistage Bitumen Plant
Developed and produced Technix EnviroCutter – a patented world first safer, environmentally sensitive and better performing cutter, for the replacement of kerosene cutters in bitumen spray sealing.
2021
Designed and introduced the Technix Solo Bitumen Plant.
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