Macsway Scaffolding and Aculog Systems
Serious safety solutions status holders for their clients to help people distinguish between different companies on site or projects and the company exports overseas, including to Australia, Asia and Europe.
Aculog Aculog, the scaffold management system was established after a request by the company’s client, The New Zealand Refining Company.
Macsway Scaffolding
The system has progressed markedly to covering signage solutions for several disciplines including Scaffold Safe, Edge Protection, Confined Space, Safety Nets and Live Wire.
Macsway Scaffolding, the Macartney’s family first company, is the oldest continuous scaffolding company in New Zealand, having been established in 1969. Macsway carries out a wide variety of scaffolding and rigging work for many longstanding clients throughout Northland.
Aculog Systems Ltd is an add on to the family’s original business Macsway Scaffolding and operates out of the same premises. The company provides a range of durable scaffold and industry safety signs which can be customised to a client’s needs – it is a complete scaffold management system. “Being small enough to customize designs has been the key to our success,” Aculog managing director Ian Macartney says. “While there is still a stock standard type, some customers want their logo on the card and/or status holder or any particular wording and we are able to do that.” Aculog do not restrict people to a set pack ratio of cards and holders, they are able to purchase one item or 1,000 items. Aculog also offers different coloured
Macsway has always been innovative and has developed a lot of industry firsts, such as importing the Ringlock Style Scaffold System Surelock, importing using and distributing Ladder Access Gates (now an industry standard), developing stillages and bins to manage scaffolding storage and transport, designing and building Hydraulic Scaffold Plank Testing Machines, and importing a tested 40kg bag to replace the hessian sacks traditionally used to handle small scaffold items at the work face. Since Macsway Scaffolding was established 52 years ago, Ian says a lot has changed with a new business on every corner, but he is proud of the company for being around as long as it has and of its longstanding relationships with quality clients.
Aculog is an Acronym for: • • •
Accurate – correct, precise and exact. Log – record of progress and performance Hence Aculog – an accurate record of progress and performance.
Aculog has been developed to: • • • • • • •
Improve scaffolding safety standards Improve the visibility, security and durability of scaffold safety status signs. Ensure monitoring both at the workface and at the site office. Maintain the quality and integrity of scaffolds. Be user friendly and easily understood by the lay person. Be readily installed on any site large or small. Provide a cost-effective solution to common problems in our industry.
Macsway Scaffolding NOTABLE PROJECTS
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Construction of the Marsden B Power Station and later its Demolition Fonterra Maungaturoto and Kauri Dairy Factory Construction, Projects and Maintenance Carter Holt Harvey LVL Plant Construction, Projects and Maintenance Ngawha Thermal Power Plant Stage 1
It seems as though anyone with a cellphone, a ute and a dog can start a scaffolding company nowadays; however we don’t need to be the biggest, just the best with quality employees and equipment.
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NZ Refining Company 45yrs of Maintenance, Projects, Shutdowns Golden Bay Cement 50yrs of Maintenance, Projects, Shutdowns Yellow Pages “Treehouse” Warkworth – TV Campaign Kauri Cliffs Golf Course, TV Towers for The Golf Channel & NBC 60 Metre Superyacht Scaffold and Encapsulation (on Water) Hundertwasser Art Gallery Whangarei (current) Cape Reinga Lighthouse Refurbishment Kerikeri Stone Store Refurbishment A Wide Range of Domestic Homes, including Grand Design.
Staff – the key to success “We are fortunate to have maintained a very low turnover of staff throughout the past five decades. We have several second-generation employees and several who trained, qualified, moved overseas and returned. “50 percent of our staff have an average of 14 years service and 64 percent of our staff hold scaffolding trade qualifications (COC). The average employee has been with Macsways for 15 years.”
Macsway Scaffolding Ltd Kepa Road Industrial Estate Ruakaka, Northland (09) 432 7643 macsway@xtra.co.nz www.macswayscaffolding.co.nz
SCAFFOLD PLANKS AND SPECIALIST PRODUCTS Home grown and carefully crafted in NZ sustainably sourced from PAN PAC. at our workshop in Taranaki. As well as untreated planks, we are the only
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