Marlborough may get big rubber press
Wellington reporter Marlborough could become the site for the biggest rubber press in the Southern Hemisphere, according to the member of Parliament for Marlborough, Mr D. L. Kidd. He was commenting on a recent Government decision to begin negotiations with Safe Air, Ltd, to install a press in the firm’s engineering facility being built at Woodbourne. The rubber press, socalled because it shapes metal over rubber pads, would be used mainly for the manufacture of metal
panels for the repair and maintenance of aircraft for the R.N.Z.A.F. and for other aircraft users in New Zealand. It has other potential industrial uses, too. The press would enable Safe Air to compete for overseas contracts, mainly in aviation, Mr Kidd said. A number of important details had still to be negotiated, but the way was now clear for the project to proceed. Mr Kidd said the estimated cost of setting up the rubber press in the new propeller shop building would be “well over SIM.”
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