Red Steel Limited
Red Steels foundations were laid in the 1960s when Les Nicholas formed Woolaway - a construction company specialising in the construction of woolsheds and design and build of farm buildings. Les established Woolaway Engineering to fabricate the steel structures of the woolsheds and other buildings he constructed.
In January 2003 Red Steel Ltd purchased Woolaway Steel Structures. Red Steel's Managing Director, Bob Hawley, was employed by Woolaway as a quantity surveyor from 1994 to 1999 and after four years in Tauranga seized the opportunity to return to the Hawke's Bay and take over the company for which he once worked. Bob's other employers include Mainzeal Property and Construction, Jensen Steel Fabricators and Multiplex Construction (NZ) Ltd.
Red Steel undertakes structural steel contracts predominantly in the lower North Island. Their Napier workshop is well equipped with modern plant and equipment together with a selection of irreplaceable items, some having been manufactured in the workshop they now function in.
| Physical Address | 20 Edmundson Street, , (map) | ||
| Postal Address | P O Box 3122, , , | ||
| Phone | 06 843 2001 | Mobile | 0275 783351 |
| bob@redsteel.co.nz | Website | www.redsteel.co.nz | |
| Fax | 06 843 2002 | Contact | Bob Hawley |
Project Capability
The Project Capability table indicates categorisation of the company in terms of the work it considers it can execute technically, and classification of the company in terms of the maximum size of project contract that it has previously handled.
| Heavy industrial plant structures |  |
| Multi storey >3 levels | |
| Large span portals >30m | |
| Medium/small span portals | |
| Large span trusswork | |
| Major tubular steelwork | |
| Towers | |
| Architectural metalwork | |
| Frames for machinery, supports for conveyors, ladders and catwalks | |
| Grandstands and stadia | |
| Small fabrications | |
| Pedestrian bridges | |
| Short span road or rail bridges <18m | |
| Long span bridges | |
| Residential steelwork | |
| Project Tonnage | up to 400 |
| Project Contract Value | up to $2,000,000 |
Note: The steelwork project contract value for a company is intended to give guidance on the size of steelwork contract that has been undertaken; where a project lasted longer than a year, the value is the proportion of the steelwork contract undertaken within a 12 month period. Contract value is primarily steelwork but may include associated works.
Equipment and Services
| CNC Beam Line | |
| CNC Cutting - Oxy, Plasma | |
| CNC hole drilling or punching | |
| Crane: Mobile <= 10t | |
| Crane: mobile > 10t | |
| Cranes: Overhead <= 5t per bay | |
| Cranes: Overhead > 5t per bay | |
| Cutting Mechanical: Saw, Cropper, Guillotine | |
| Plate Rolling | |
| Section Rolling | |
| Welding: Non-Ferrous | |
| Welding: On-Site | |
| Welded Beam Line | |
| Cold Cambering of Beams <450mm deep | |
| Cold Cambering of Beams <620mm deep | |
| Steel Erection | |
| 3D Steel Detailing Modelling | |
| General Steel Detailing | |
| Wire brush and prime | |
| Grit-blasting and architectural coatings | |
| Intumescent coatings | |
Employment
Red Steel Limited offers the following programs:
| Gateway school students | Work experience school students | Modern apprenticeships | STAR |
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