Our office and factory will reopen on Tuesday 28 April and will be fully operating with the precautions of alert Level 3 in place by the NZ Government. Some office-based staff will be working from home to maintain social distancing. All email will be monitored as usual. Visitors to Real Steel are by prior appointment only.
COVID-19 – Our office and factory will be closed from Wednesday 25 March until further notice, in accordance with the Level 4 alert in place by the NZ Government.
During this time, the majority of our office-based staff including our sales and design teams will be doing limited work from home.
We encourage you to communicate primarily by email as most DDI’s are not being forwarded to individual mobile phones. All email will be monitored as usual.
Keep safe and we look forward to working with you again shortly.
🧱 From a block to a part on our KMC 2000SD Machining Centre 🛠️
Find our more about our capabilities here.
Big ups to Andy Maynard from Clive Taylor for sending through these awesome pics of a 2017 Mack Trident with Hardox bins for carting rock, for the ‘Show off your Hardox body’ photo competition.
“Back in 2017 the truck went on the road towing a 4-axle trailer – 8mm floor – 4mm sides – 6mm headboard and tail gate from Transport Trailers in Hamilton. Truck bin set up on a sub frame on twist locks – 8mm floor – 4mm sides –6mm headboard and tail gate kit set bin from Real Steel. Tare of 17,800...” says Andy.
“In 2019, Clive said ‘we need more pay load out of this thing’ so then came the 5-axle trailer to really put the Mack to test. It has 8mm floor – 4mm sides – 6mm tail gate and headboard from Transport Trailers in Hamilton and the unit now tares in at 18,900. Now on an HMVP with a pay load of 31ton,” says Andy.
“I’m the full-time operator for this unit and over the past 3 years I have carted a lot of rock around the lower north island – 500 to 1 metre big boulders and the bins still look brand new. As of today, there’s not a dent in them,” says Andy.
“Thank you to the team at Real Steel for creating these Hardox bins that handle anything we throw at them,” from the team at Clive Taylors.
As a side note, Andy’s family also get right in behind Andy and his Mack when it comes to truck shows and events. “They won the ‘2017 Mangatainoka Best Presented’ and ‘2018 Mangatainoka Best Mack’. From left to right in the photo is my son Bradley and daughters Natasha, baby Renee and my oldest Hayley,” says Andy.
Thanks Andy for your awesome story, it’s great to see your family are so keen to get involved as well. You have been placed into the prize draw! 👍
Troy Knudsen from Fencequip set about designing and building a better solution for augers after hearing his customer’s frustrations around augers not lasting as long as they’d like…
Read the full story here: http://bit.ly/AStoryofInnovation
Cheers to Max Gibson from Gibson Field Services Ltd for sending in his entry for our 'Show off your Hardox body' photo competition!
Max has sent in pics of their Iveco Trakker 6x6 metal truck featuring Hardox bins and a tractor and Hardox Giltrap trailer, both used for building forestry roads in the lower north island.
"The Iveco Trakker 6x6 is a great truck for the job at hand and handles well towing the 2 axle "dog" Hardox trailer. We use our Hardox Giltrap trailer for end hauling dirt while building the forestry roads. Both of these were bought brand new and are great bits of equipment," says Max.
Find out more about our photo competition here: http://bit.ly/hardoxcompetition
This is a 50mm Hardox® 500 sprocket for a motor scraper, machined to perfection with our KMC 2000MSD Machining Centre. We have the equipment to process the hardest steel accurately 👌 Find out more about our capabilities here: http://bit.ly/realsteelcapabilities
Check out this beauty, a recent Higgins Concrete Mack truck with a Hardox truck and trailer combo!
This 'Show off your Hardox body' photo competition entry was sent in by Dwayne Zander from Gary Douglas Engineers Ltd (GDE) in Palmerston North. GDE were one of the first in New Zealand to adopt the Hardox brand into their tipper bin builds.
"We started with Hardox floors and then onto full Hardox bins once the 1000 tonne press brake arrived at Real Steel. The one piece folded sides were very impressive and became easier and quicker to assemble," says Dwayne.
Real Steel forms tipper sides and floors from one piece of Hardox 450. Only one weld, from coaming rail to bottom skirt, headboard to tailgate. No seams, no laser welds, no weaknesses. You get reduced tare weight, increased payload and unparalleled service life 👍👍👍
Find out more about the competition here: https://www.realsteel.co.nz/competition
An awesome looking piece of kit which has just been completed by the team at Regal Haulage. Congratulations on an impressive build, this is one to turn heads for sure! This is #711, a Volvo FH700 8x4 + 5 Axle curtain sided tipover axle trailer, which features a Strenx chassis from Real Steel ✊✊✊ Depending on the starting point, Strenx designs can reduce steel structure weight by up to 40% and still achieve greater performance and a longer service life.
For the first time ever, we're inviting all Hardox owners and operators across New Zealand to ‘Show off your Hardox body’ in a photo competition between March and May 2020.
Send us photos and stories of your hardest, toughest and best-looking Hardox truck or trailer, to enter the draw and be in to win a trip for two worth $3,000!
'Show off your Hardox body' is in celebration of New Zealand's 4000th Hardox truck which will be achieved halfway through the competition.
"Our bins are seven years old and take a massive pounding from up to 100 tonne per day of heavy scrap metal. I'm very impressed with the durability performance of the Hardox bins." - John Drummond, Truck Driver, Sims Pacific Metals.
Be in to win! Find out more here: http://bit.ly/hardoxcompetition
Check out the clean lines on this shiny new T&G Hardox bin 🙌🙌🙌 "I'll never use anything else and will eventually change my fleet of five trucks to Hardox" - Kieran Oliver from Kieran Oliver Contracting Masterton.
Real Steel is a family-owned business in Upper Hutt and a finalist in the Humankind Employee Experience Awards 2019. Real Steel offers their staff free gym membership, health and life insurance.
We are looking for a motivated and reliable production worker to join our team. The ideal applicant will have proven experience as a production worker in a manufacturing environment, be physically fit, ideally hold a forklift and crane license (as crane loading/unloading will form part of the duties) and be comfortable working with measurements.
We are also looking for an experienced and highly skilled CNC laser machine operator to join our production team. The ideal applicant will be physically fit, hold a forklift and crane license and will have 3-5 years’ experience operating laser machinery.
Learn more below!
Production Worker: http://bit.ly/30JkWAu
Laser Machine Operator: http://bit.ly/37o0uaV
Duroxite 100 chute liners for processing highly abrasive crushed glass. Predicted 78.6% increase in service life when compared to Hardox 500, according to the WearCalc app. Find out more about Duroxite here: http://bit.ly/Duroxite
Thanks for your support this year and we look forward to working with you again next year. We close for the holidays at 4.30pm on 20 December and reopen on 6 January.
The tree is up and the countdown continues until Christmas Day! This 5mm Hardox strip Christmas tree was designed and processed in-house 🎄🎄🎄 Real Steel closes on 20 December and reopens on Monday 6 January 🌞🌞🌞
Haydon Crabb, Grader Operator down in the South Island uses Real Steel grader blades. "Definitely a great product that can handle what I put them through, in all weather conditions," says Haydon ⛄ ❄️
Photo credit: Simon Currie
We currently have an opportunity for a passionate Customer Service Representative to join our Commercial Team! The ideal candidate will have previous customer service experience and accuracy with numbers and measurements. Real Steel is a family-owned business in Upper Hutt and a finalist in the Humankind Employee Experience Awards 2019.
Learn more about the role here: http://bit.ly/34aeIKD
Left to right: Taylor Ellery - Customer Service Representative, Simon Timothy - Estimator, Rob Lamb - Commercial Manager, Donna Groves - Customer Service Representative and Cheryl Campbell - Customer Service Representative.
We're proud to be a finalist in the Humankind Employee Experience Awards. We've maintained high employee satisfaction through a period of rapid growth. Read this latest article in NZ Manufacturer to find out more about what makes Real Steel a great place to work! 🙌🙌🙌
We have two packs of promotional merchandise to giveaway including:
✊ Real Steel cap
✊ Real Steel beanie
✊ Real Steel bar mat
✊ Hardox® cooler bag
✊ Hardox® keep cup
✊ Hardox® notebook
✊ Hardox® 'stress ball' hard hat
✊ Hardox® lanyard
✊ Hardox® ruler
Competition runs between 20-30 November 2019. Visit our Facebook page to enter: https://www.facebook.com/RealSteelLtd/
New 40mm EnduroBlade on a L150H loader. EnduroBlades are made from Hardox® 500 steel and guaranteed to outlast the competition. Better cost-per-hour or we'll refund the difference! ✊✊✊
