Machine To Make Corrugated Iron

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30948, 3 January 1966, Page 3

Machine To Make Corrugated Iron

“The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, January 2. Wellington’s first and New Zealand’s largest machine for corrugating iron has been installed in a new factory at Waterloo quay.

The 20-ton unit, about 20ft in length, required two giant mobile cranes and a smaller crane to install it in its new location. It is expected to be in operation in about a week.

The managing director of Dimond Industries (Mr E. A.;Howarth) said that the machine would handle both flat roofing and corrugated roofing. The required rolled galvanised iron would be first imported from England, Japan, and Australia, but would be produced in New Zealand near Raglan in about three years.

This would be unrolled at one end of the machine and passed through a series of rollers. Each set of rollers would make a deeper corrugation until the iron rolled out the other end as longrun corrugated roofing. Different rollers would be fitted to the basic machine for flat iron roofing. The big advantage of such a machine locally was that the builder could stipulate

the exact length of the roof to by lengths of iron. One sheet could run from peak to eaves, saving laps.

The machine would produce corrugated or flat iron at a rate of 100 ft a minute, or roughly one mile an hour, at any length required.