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A hazard is only truly solved when someone identifies it and delivers the fix.

Too often, that's two separate conversations with two separate providers, assessments that gather dust, or projects that start without a clear understanding of the underlying risk.

TEG Risk and TEG Projects close that gap. Machine safety engineering and end-to-end project delivery, under one accountable relationship.

Here's how it played out on a recent multi-site programme with CHEP.

🔗 https://tegprojects.com/projects/chep/

Your business is faced with looming energy uncertainty, and high-capital cost energy transition options. The modelling looks right, but there's no clear path to implementation on your site, with your constraints.

Rhys Knauf, Industrial Plant Services lead sees this regularly. Reports with solid engineering that stall once the ""study"" phase is done, because no one's bridged the gap between the numbers and what's actually feasible on the ground.

Gas reserves are declining faster than expected. Prices are climbing. Electricity infastructure is lagging demand. And every site is different; grid capacity, aging assets, legacy infrastructure. Full electrification isn't always the answer, and it's rarely the first step.

Often the practical path forward is optimising what's already there, balancing technology applications, reducing thermal demand, recovering waste heat, rationalising loads, before making the bigger calls on technology.

TEG Projects doesn't sell equipment or technology. We review what's the options, business objectives, test it against site realities, and work out the practical next steps, independent engineering advice.

In this blog highlight Rhys unpacks the challenges facing NZ manufacturers and what a realistic transition pathway actually looks like: https://tegprojects.com/news/decarbonisation-in-nz-industrial-manufacturing-navigating-practical-and-strategic-challenges/.

If you're navigating this transition and need practical, independent support, our Industrial Plant Services team has the on-site experience to help you move from study to implementation. Get in touch: https://tegprojects.com/services/industrial-plant-services/

Decarbonisation in NZ Industrial Manufacturing: Navigating Practical and Strategic Challenges - TEG Projects Rhys Knauf, Industrial Plant Services Lead at TEG Projects, shares his practical perspective on the real-world challenges of decarbonisation in New Zealand’s

We're hiring: Project Manager, Bay of Plenty

We're looking for an experienced Project Manager to join our team, based in the Bay of Plenty.

You'll be managing capital projects in food, beverage, and process manufacturing, leading delivery from concept through to installation and handover, on live operational sites.

What you'll be doing:
→ Running projects across the full lifecycle in active manufacturing environments
→ Acting as the primary client contact during delivery
→ Managing schedules, budgets, contractors, and stakeholders
→ Keeping things moving when site realities throw curveballs

What we're looking for:
→ Project delivery experience in food, beverage, dairy, or industrial processing
→ Engineering, technical, or trade background
→ Brownfield or capital project experience on active sites
→ A practical, solutions-first approach

This is a full-time role requiring regional travel.

Find out more and apply: https://tegprojects.com/opportunities/

Why does every manufacturing site need a master plan?

Because a master plan isn't really about the layout, it's about getting everyone aligned on where a site is today, and where the business wants it to go.

This month, TEG Projects South Island Regional Manager Andy Stockley shares what he's learned leading master planning exercises across NZ's manufacturing sector:

→ Greenfield sites have visible constraints from day one. Brownfield sites carry decades of decisions quietly limiting safety, flow and flexibility
→ One-on-one stakeholder conversations often surface more than workshops, the insights only click once combined
→ Simple 2D layouts are the fastest way to test options before committing to detailed design
→ The strongest master plans balance ROI-driven projects with enabling ones, so the business sees returns while building toward the long-term vision

Read Andy's full insights 🔗https://tegprojects.com/news/why-every-manufacturing-site-needs-a-master-plan/

Chris Murphy joins TEG Projects as a Senior Project Manager in the Waikato, bringing more than 30 years of engineering and project delivery experience across the food and dairy manufacturing sector.

Chris spent 13 years at Fonterra across Waitoa, Morrinsville, and Canpac, delivering capital works from $100K to $10M, followed by eight years as Principal Engineer across the wider dairy and food industry, strengthening the client projects he supports.

A Chartered Professional Engineer with deep experience in HAZOP facilitation, commissioning, and multidisciplinary team coordination, Chris brings the hands-on capability clients rely on to keep projects moving.

Welcome to the team, Chris.

https://tegprojects.com/team_member/chris-murphy/

We're hiring: Engineering & AI/Automation Summer Intern
Auckland / Waikato | Full-time summer role, with potential part-time work in 2027

Are you a computer science, software, data, AI or engineering student with a strong interest in applying technology to real business problems?

TEG Projects and TEG Risk are seeking a proactive summer intern to help apply AI and automation across our project delivery and risk engineering work, working alongside our project managers and safety engineers on live industrial client projects.

This is not a "prompting" role. We are looking for someone who can understand how the business operates, identify improvement opportunities, and help build practical, working solutions, from workflow automation and scripting to smarter reporting, using tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Power Automate and Microsoft 365.

This position offers genuine experience applying AI within a professional services environment, exposure to client-facing industrial work, and real input into how we adopt these tools going forward.

To apply: please send a short summary of your field of study, your interest in AI or automation, and any relevant tools, scripts or projects you have developed: https://tegprojects.com/contact/

At TEG, we carve out time each month to share what we're learning, and this month's session was a good one.

Our team member Wayne recently attended the EECA Wood Energy Workshop in Hawkes Bay and the Energy Summit which reiterated some key messages we are seeing across NZ's industrial energy landscape. A few things that sparked real conversation around the table:

Gas supply is expected to be squeezed within next 5yrs, where industrial users and power generators will be competing for a shrinking resource and generators are likely to have deeper pockets. For businesses reliant on natural gas for ovens, process heat and steam, that timeline is closer than it feels.

Momentum for biomass energy transitions is building fast. Over 30 large-scale industrial biomass installations have gone in across NZ in the last few years. It is forecasted that roughly 20% of our export logs could theoretically displace around 70% of current gas use. The economics are shifting too, one case study showed biofuel boiler operating costs coming in at roughly a third of natural gas.

The infrastructure ask is significant, though, and isn't easily applied to all sites. Biomass boilers are physically larger, need fuel storage and handling systems, and typically run 18–24 months from contract to commissioning. These aren't overnight transitions, and it’s not the only viable solution for every industrial site.

It's sessions like these that keep our team grounded in what's actually happening in the sector, not just the headlines, and guide discussions on the practical realities that shape the projects we work on.

When an audit flagged compliance issues with chemical storage at Fonterra Waitoa, the question was not just what needed fixing - it was how to deliver the upgrade safely inside a live manufacturing site where downtime was not an option.

That is exactly the type of challenge our Industrial Plant Services (IPS) team is built to solve: complex brownfield upgrades that require technical judgement, practical planning and careful integration with ongoing operations.

Led by Graham Brooks, Senior Project Engineer and technical lead for Chemical Storage & Fire Protection within in our IPS team, the project replaced three non-compliant chemical storage tanks and associated reticulation systems across two winter shuts, while daily site operations continued uninterrupted.
The result was HSNO-compliant chemical storage, reduced maintenance burden, and safer, more reliable chemical dosing.

A Chartered Engineer (UK) and PMP-qualified project leader, Graham brings the technical lead capability IPS relies on for chemical handling, process infrastructure upgrades and critical fire protection systems.

Graham celebrates 15 years with TEG this month; a committed and deeply experienced Project Manager and key member of the Industrial Plant Services team.

See how IPS delivers:
https://tegprojects.com/services/industrial-plant-services/

Most food and beverage manufacturing sites are brownfield sites, not blank canvases. Upgrading equipment or process capacity means working around a live production line, existing infrastructure, and years of operational history.

In our latest insights piece, we look at:

-Best practices for upgrading a facility without disrupting production
-How to run a condition assessment before starting a brownfield project
-Where brownfield upgrades differ from greenfield builds
-Regulatory compliance considerations for NZ brownfield projects

Read it here: https://tegprojects.com/news/brownfield-facility-upgrades-best-practices-for-upgrading-a-live-production-site/

Keeping production running while expanding a manufacturing facility is never straightforward.

In this beverage factory extension project, the challenge was to create space for a new production line while maintaining hygiene standards and avoiding unplanned downtime.

Through careful planning, staged construction, and close coordination with site teams, the project was delivered safely and on schedule, with production continuing throughout.

Read the case study and share your experience below: https://tegprojects.com/projects/large-beverage-manufacturer/

What’s been your biggest challenge when delivering projects in a live manufacturing environment?