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In just four years, Waikato firm Splice Construction Ltd has grown its business from five staff to 25 by developing specialist services and employing top machine operators. And as the business grows, so does their fleet of Kobelco excavators. Splice continues to win significant contracts in some of the country’s biggest road construction projects. Splice has worked on the Tauranga Eastern Link, the Cambridge Section of the Waikato Expressway and Auckland’s Northwestern Motorway. Current contracts include the Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway and the Mackays to Peka Peka (M2PP) Expressway on the Kapiti Coast. Splice managing director Graeme Rush has grown the company’s business by providing specialist services such as installation of
Splice Construction Ltd has growen its business and its fleet of Kobelco excavators.
guardrailing and wire rope barriers, and construction of MSE walls and noise walls. Once his operators begin work on a big project, their skills and experience usually win them additional work. Foreman/operator Andrew Prince is in charge of the work on M2PP in Kapiti. “We came down here 18 months ago to do six weeks’ work and we’re still here,” he says. The company has now built 17 MSE walls on the project. For the Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway, Splice purchased two new Kobelco SK210LC-10 excavators to prep for bridge construction and to cut tracks to provide access for drilling teams. One is getting fitted with a Leica 3D GPS. “To form some of those tracks, we were cutting six metres vertically to form a three metre wide track.” The company now has eight Kobelcos in its fleet. Andrew says the busiest Kobelco is an SK135 which has clocked nearly 3000 hours in 18 months. In his two years with the company, he hasn’t seen a single breakdown.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE • Kawasaki Z7 Loaders to Kiwi Lumber. • MIMICO Environmental Awards. • Graymont maximises production. • Meet Chris Gray, our new GM. Splice operations manager Bryan Shepherd says his boss has always upgraded his diggers regularly. The company’s clients like to see late model machines that won’t let them down. “At the end of the day, we need the right people and the right gear to do our job or we don’t get paid. The skill level of some of our operators is right up there. “And when it comes to gear, the Kobelco excavator used to be considered a mid-range digger but I’d quite happily say Kobelco has stepped up a level and they are now a top range machine. There’s been an increase in power and they’re much smoother to operate. The latest SK210LC-10 models are just awesome – up there with the best.”
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