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Macsway Scaffolding and Aculog Systems
Serious safety solutions
Aculog
Aculog, the scaffold management system was established after a request by the company’s client, The New Zealand Refining Company.
The system has progressed markedly to covering signage solutions for several disciplines including Scaffold Safe, Edge Protection, Confined Space, Safety Nets and Live Wire.
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 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.
Macsway Scaffolding
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.
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 • 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 • 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.”
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.
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
CARTERS designing app specifically for tradies
I’m sure we can all agree that mobile apps have become common place on our devices these days, earning their place as a key digital tool in our lives. The phrase ‘There’s an app for that’ springs to mind.
Following on from the successful launch of the CARTERS Trade Portal in 2019, they are in the process of launching an app for tradies to add to their collection of tools.
CARTERS Chief Executive Mike Guy says, “The app is designed to make ordering on the go simple.”
“We are continuing to invest in IT to support the needs of our trade customers, so it’s exciting to be able to launch this app.”
With the ability to view trade account pricing, search for key products, scan a barcode to quickly add items to the cart and order from confirmed estimates – its features are at your fingertips to make job management efficient.
Integration for a seamless hand-off between the app and the trade portal also ensures it’s easy to move between mobile devices and desktop, which is really handy when it comes to making favourites lists for quick orders.
The app will be available on Apple and Android devices as CARTERS start to roll it out over the next few months to those with a CARTERS Account.
If you’re not a CARTERS building partner, you can talk to their team for more details and to set up your trade account.
See www.carters.co.nz/tradeapp for further information.
