Read Industrial has grown to become a leading manufacturer in New Zealand, continually developing with the agricultural industry over the 95 years of service in Canterbury. Read Industrial is based in Rangiora, New Zealand and is an agricultural manufacturer that produces parts for milking machines, and general engineering componentry. Read Industrial also install milking systems and sell products throughout New Zealand and internationally. Read Industrial is a fourth-generation family business started by John Read and now run by his great, great grandchildren Steven and Philip Read. Read Industrial Ltd has a team of technicians for the installation of milking systems, routine machine tests & system upgrades. Read technicians are available 24hours a day, 365 days a year for the maintenance and servicing of milking machines in the Canterbury region. Outside the Canterbury region, Reads have an extensive agents network that covers all of New Zealand. Internationally we have agents in the UK and the US. The workshop engineers specialise in the manufacturing of the components, and assembly of the specialty agricultural products, and general engineering. Our design and engineering capabilities are extensive. In turn, our product range is sort after by diverse industries including; Marine, Aeronautical, Water & Irrigation, Horticulture, Food & Beverage. At Read Industrial, there are many types of production equipment that are required to manufacture the agriculture products on site. Read Industrials manufacturing plant consists of around 6aches of land comprising of engineering buildings and factories. The three main areas of production on site include a foundry, CNC machine shop, and general engineering area. The foundry is capable of various casting methods including die casting, sand casting, and investment casting. Multiple furnaces are available for melting of the broad range of metals for casting including aluminium, brass, stainless steel, irons, and other metals. An aluminium resistance furnace is available to melt large volumes of aluminium, and induction furnaces are used to melt the other metals. The investment casting process can produce a high detail cast product using moulds that are produced by CNC equipment that is available on site.In the CNC machine shop, there are multiple Okuma CNC milling and turning machines available to agricultural machine parts. CAD/CAM and CNC simulation software are used to ensure that the machines produce the parts to a high standard and operate in an ideal manner. There are two high-speed CNC mills, including a 5-axis mill and 4-axis mill. For CNC turning there are four machines available including, a twin spindle 6-axis CNC turning centre, a twin spindle, twin turret turning centre and two 2-axis CNC lathes. The general engineering area has general engineering tools and equipment for manufacturing and fabrication of parts and equipment used for agricultural and other industries. Machinery in the general engineering area that would be of use for the construction of a portable milking plant includes but is not limited to, sheet metal forming, pipe bending and welding equipment, as well as machines for cutting, drilling, milling, turning and other typical machine shop tools and equipment. A 1.2m sheet roller, an 80-ton punch and shear, a 3m wide guillotine, and 120-ton press brake are available for sheet work, and an 80-ton pipe roller able to bend pipe up to 4"​ in diameter. Various types of welding equipment are also available including the standard and specialist MIG, TIG, and ARC.Foundry Casting capabilities;+ low alloy and stainless steel + copper and copper-based alloys + Cast and ductile iron + aluminum alloysSand Cast - Shell Casting - Wax casting - Investment casting - Die casting - Gravity Casting and more.

Website: readindustrial.co.nz

Employees: 20 - 49

HQ: N/A

Location: Rangiora, N/A, nz

Revenue: Not Available