Presentation of Designmark certificates

Press, 16 November 1981, Page 25

Presentation of Designmark certificates

The Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr AdamsSchneider) will present Designmark award certificates to 21 manufacturers at a function in Farmers-Hay-wrights tomorrow. Tire chairman of the New Zealand Industrial Design Council (Mr James Collins) will also be present. Farmers and Haywrights

will also display the finalists for the Prince Philip Award for New Zealand Industrial Design. The Christchurch City Council has granted permission for the larger of these exhibits to be displayed in Victoria Square. The Designmark award scheme, run by the New Zealand Industrial Design

Council, is one of the most prestigious events for manufacturers in New Zealand.

Some of the products for which Designmark certificates will be awarded are:

© Memo-pal is a cubeshaped plastic memo holder designed by Mr Denis Stollery, of the Astoll Marketing Company. It was launched in July to complement the pen-pal range which had previously received the Designmark award. These pens can either be stuck or screwed into place and feature a cord which has an extension of 141 cm.

Both ranges are available in three categories — commercial, souvenir and promotional use.

Up until the end of last month more than 10,500 memo-pals had been sold. Export orders for the range are also held with Australia and Fiji, and quotations and samples have been supplied to Great Britain. © A coal-fired boiler has been developed by a Christchurch engineering firm, Taylors, Ltd. -> The key to this design is the stainless steel liner and the use of a small number of large-diameter fire tubes. Conventional boilers use the reverse technique — a large number of small tubes.

The new technique enables the boiler to be far easier to clean. The boiler has been specifically designed for coal firing in conjunction with the 75 Series Coal Stoker. The latter was also designed by the company and received the Designmark award. ® The electronics engineering firm of G. W. Streat, Ltd. in consultation with the Wool Research Organisation

of New Zealand, has developed a modular control sys-, tern relating to the control and instrumentation of wool scouring. Similar systems are used in various other countries.

The concept involves one central control system for scouring which is programmed to accept information about the wool being scoured, such as type, humidity and temperature. This information is then automatically sent out to the plant and the subsequent modifications and changes to processing are carried out to provide a finished product within very fine tolerances.

This equipment also has the capacity to reduce the energy input required, to reduce the intake of water and reduce discharge of waste. The control centre consists of four main components — the mimic panel, which shows the pictorial layout of the plant and the status of all the electrical equipment;

the motor control centre, which controls all the motors associated with the plant; programmable logical controller, which provides auto-

matic sequencing and control of all motors; various automatic modulars, which provide control of variables such as time, temperature, humidity and turbidity (degree of dirtiness). © Skope Industries of Christchurch has designed and manufactured a safe fan heater suitable for smaller areas such as the bathroom, laundry, kitchen or a caravan.

The 2Kw wall mounted heater works on a long cylindrical operation (tangential fan operation) rather tnan a propeller operation. The tangential fan operation draws air over the elements and down through the angled grill to generate a powerful air flow for direct circulation. The heater also has an automatic thermostatic control.