Last Friday was a very sad day for HERA. Farewelling one of our longest term employees – Kam Subramani. At the age of 73, Kam decided it was time for retirement. We have profiled him previously. He has been the beloved Accountant, not just for HERA but for many other organisations over the years, including…
We have just recently held our Annual General Meeting for our members, and have some new announcements that we’d like to share as a result. We’re excited to announce that Dave Anderson, Technical Director at John Jones Steel, is the newly elected Chair of the HERA Board. Dave has served as a HERA Board member…
We’re excited to advise that our CEO Dr Troy Coyle has been elected as Chair of the Tertiary Education Commissions (TEC) Workforce Development Council (WDC) Interim Board for Manufacturing, Engineering & Logistics. This WDC initiative follows a successful Expression of Interest (EoI) process, with 249 applications which resulted in a strong group of interim Establishment…
We’re proud to advise that HERA has now gained SSC Certification. HERA recently underwent the task of assessing our carbon footprint and have also been assessing our sustainability credentials as part of the process of achieving Sustainable Steel Council (SSC) Certification. This is part of our commitment to positively serve our community responsibilities. From our perspective,…
The dust has settled from the first of our Future Forum conferences and we’d like to congratulate the winners and runners-up at our 2020 Vision: Nation Dinner. It goes without saying, that the performance of forward thinking companies play a pivotal part in propelling our industry into the future, and making sure we have relevance.…
HERA was excited to kick off our year by hosting the 2020 Rotary National Science and Technology Forum at HERA House. This student event is part of our commitment to inspire future engineers to work in the metals industry and showcase the real opportunities that exist within our sector. The visiting group was part of…
Curious about what our industry cared about the most in 2019? Join us as we sum up our top read articles across our platforms, and why we’ve made the important shift to better communicate to you all. 2019 was a massive year for HERA! We had a huge shift in strategy that put emphasis on…
Our team at HERA wanted to take the time to wish all of our members the best as we break for our Christmas holidays. We look forward to seeing you in the new year! We’ve had a milestone year with some great new initiatives which we’re proud to have achieved. We embedded a new focus…
HERA proudly sponsored and was happy to have our Research Engineer Hafez Taheri attend final year student project events for both the University of Auckland (UoA) and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) this year – promoting new ideas in the field of engineering. At HERA, we believe that supporting industry projects such as these give…
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve had two new team members join HERA this month – Innovation Centre Manager, Greg Buckley, and Research Engineer, Hafez Taheri. They both bring a unique set of skills and diverse thinking to our HERA team fabric, and we’re excited to see the positive contributions that they’ll bring to our…
Last month our Librarian Musarrat Begum headed to Wellington to find out the latest software improvements for our members using our online library resource. The two-day annual meeting was held at the National Library of New Zealand, and was facilitated by Softlink Information Centres – providers of library, knowledge and research management solutions. Our online…
After almost eight years at HERA, we’d like to let our membership and industry know that our General Manager Industry Development is starting a new journey at IANZ as their General Manager – NZ Quality College. Boaz came onboard with HERA as a Research Engineer. This was a time when our Industry Development team had…