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::About LENZ
Equipment
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LENZ Equipment Ltd, design and manufacture LENZ fruit handling equipment to meet the specific needs and requirements of the packhouse operator, the physical constraints of the building, and the type of product to be handled.
The companies operate out of a suite of offices and workshops at 560 Jellicoe Street (SH 2) Te Puke, New Zealand. The complex contains a retail area, warehousing, machine shop, as well as the large, bright workshop which are all interlinked. The retail area provides for the needs of the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) packhouse operator who is wishing to maintain his own machinery.
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One key to the success for the LENZ range of products is the Design and Draughting expertise.
50+ years combined experience in the industry and a lot of solid engineering has put LENZ into an excellent position for manufacturing quality equipment that works.
Research and development is happening daily as new ideas are thrown around as we are always looking for better ways of doing things.
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What Products Can be Handled?
Although initially centred entirely on the Kiwifruit crop of the immediate district, LENZ Equipment has widened it's scope to cover virtually every fruit, many vegetables and flower bulbs.
Included are the various types of citrus, apples, stone-fruits, paw paw, nashi, avocados, nuts, tomatoes, zucchini, capsicums, carrots and lillium bulbs.
They have also diversified into manufactured items for other industry including milk plants, timber processing plants, roofing tiles, warehousing and valves for the paper milling industry.
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Niche Marketing
LENZ Equipment Ltd have exported their machinery into a number of niche markets, including Norfolk Island, Rarotonga, Tonga, Iran and especially into Australia.
The current exchange rate has made New Zealand produced goods extremely competitive in the Australian market. The first and largest plant is a citrus plant, with the entire system supplied from in-feed to packaged fruit, and a 46 drop 4 lane electronic grader.
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