CablePrice – New Zealand’s importer and distributor of Hitachi construction equipment, Scania truck and bus, John Deere forestry equipment and Bell dump trucks – has boosted its commitment to the Wellington Region in the form of a new a multi-million dollar facility in Bell Road South, Gracefield.
This purpose built-building will encompass head office, Wellington branch, national parts warehouse and distribution centre – all on one site.
Soon to enter its 60th year in business, CablePrice (NZ) Ltd has always called Wellington home.
Pat Ward, CablePrice (NZ) Ltd general manager – finance & Administration, says: “We’ve outgrown Tunnel Grove. It’s served us well over the past 16 years, but we now need a modern facility with more room, a head office worthy of a company like CablePrice, one that does justice to the products we represent.
“We also need a branch workshop facility that does justice to the customers who have purchased our product and we feel this will deliver into that, plus some.”
The new facility will be built in three stages over the next nine to 12 months. Stage one, completed in early December 2011, is the Wellington branch and workshops.
Stage two, the head office is due to be completed by April this year.
The third, and final, stage – a national parts and distribution warehouse – will be completed before November 2012.
Ward says: “We are providing our Wellington branch with state-of-the-art workshop facilities. The new building is bigger with more capacity for trucks, five full length 32 metre long bays plus two specialist construction and forestry equipment bays.
“In addition, we will be using the latest Skylifts not the old-fashioned hole in the ground pit. Skylifts make it easier for technicians to work on heavy gear – no more climbing up and down from the pit. Mobile lifting gear and tools etc can be wheeled straight under the equipment being worked on, a lot safer, cleaner and more user friendly.
“Part of this new head office facility will include a purpose-built theory training room complete with its own fully operational workshop where we will be training technicians from all over New Zealand with the latest tools to a world class level.”
