This factory at Whareroa, three kilometres south of Hawera in South Taranaki, is the world's largest dairy processing complex on …
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Situated in Whangarei Harbour, Limestone Island is an important site for New Zealand’s early cement industry.
The Mahurangi Cement Works ruins, near Warkworth, was the site of New Zealand’s first Portland cement manufacturing in the 1880s.
The Marsden Point Oil Refinery in Northland was New Zealand’s only refiner of oil products. It produced premium and regular …
Opened in 1986, the Motunui Synthetic Fuels Plant was the world’s first commercial production facility converting natural gas to synthetic …
The production of steel from titanomagnetite sand had never been achieved before, and this plant at Glenbrook, South Auckland, is …
The Onekakā Ironworks in Golden Bay was once the forefront of New Zealand’s iron smelting industry. It operated between 1924 …
The Otago Iron Rolling Mills Company commenced operations under the name of Smellie Brothers Limited. Their first mill was official …
Located by an unusually consistent reserve of high-grade limestone, the cement works at Portland, near Whangārei, is the only full …
The Rotowaro Carbonisation Plant, south-west of Huntly, opened in 1931. The plant took slack coal waste from the Waikato coalfield …
The Taharoa ironsand mining project was commissioned in 1972 and has been a success story for the local community and …
Much of the gold in the Thames area lay in quartz veins below sea level. Large pumps were needed to …
Established in 1885, the Thames School of Mines survived until 1954. In its heyday, this was the largest mining school …
The Tasman pulp and paper mill at Kawerau opened in 1955. In the 1960s it was the largest industrial plant …
In 1897 the Victoria Battery, alongside the Ohinemuri River at Waikino, was erected by the Waihi Gold Mining Company to …
