Farra Engineering

Max, Ben and Ryan have been putting in the hard yards on the operable roof high above the Sydney skyline 🏗️

Not a bad office for the team—big views, great project, and solid progress getting it done 👏

🚀 Our powder coating team has a new toy!
The new water wall booth is now installed and fully operational in our powder coating workshop 🎉

Built from galvanised sheetmetal and compliant with AS/NZS 4114:2020, this impressive addition is designed to capture and filter overspray during the painting process 💨🛡️

Not only does it help protect the health of our team 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️, it also supports high volume production while improving efficiency and safety across our coating space ⚙️✅

📏 Measuring 5.2m long x 4.2m wide x 2.9m high, the booth significantly enhances our powder coating capability — but our capacity doesn’t stop there!

🔥 Thanks to our giant oven, we can handle parts up to 8 metres long.

🚀 This investment replaces our former water wall booth with a significantly larger, more efficient and impressive unit, enabling greater throughput 📈 and smoother production flow ⚙️✨

Great to see the continued investment in the future of our industry 👏

Our CEO, Sally Henderson, was up in Auckland recently for the HERA board meeting — and had the chance to be part of the opening of HERA’s impressive new facility, the HERA Innovation Lab. Congratulations to the HERA team on what is a fantastic milestone for New Zealand’s metals and engineering sector 🚀

For those who aren’t familiar, HERA plays a critical role in advancing innovation, standards, and capability across our industry. We’re proud to have Sally representing the South via the HERA Board, helping bring a regional voice into national conversations that shape the future of engineering in New Zealand.

If you're curious about how HERA can support your business, capability, or projects, feel free to reach out to Sally — always happy to connect.

Want to know more about the HERA Innovation Lab? Check this out https://lnkd.in/g2TqQP2q

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Check out the Linked in post here https://lnkd.in/ewBFquCi

We’re pretty excited to be getting back into the big workshop soon, now that it’s nearing completion 🏗️✨ One piece of kit the team have definitely missed? The mighty 500T roller 💪

So here’s a little to one of the larger projects rolled out by the beast… 👇

We sub-contracted to RCR a few years back to create this massive chimney for Mataura Valley Milk 🥛🏭

🔹 34-metre-long chimney stack
🔹 4.2 metres in diameter
🔹 Fabricated from medium tensile carbon steel (8mm–20mm thick)
🔹 Base rings built from 40mm plate for extra strength

All of it was rolled on our PS 500 Roundo Roller, welded, and assembled right here in our fabrication workshop 🔧

The final result?
👉 36 metres long
👉 58 tonnes of solid engineering 💥

Once completed, the chimney made its journey from Dunedin through Central Otago to Mataura Valley Milk’s milk powder plant near Gore 🚛 …and was successfully installed by our team on site ✅

Great to look back on projects like this — and even better knowing we’ll be back rolling jobs like these again soon 👌

🔥 Things are heating up in the workshop! 🔥

Our large heat treatment processing oven is currently running around the clock, handling some very large and complex fabricated components. This post-weld heat treatment before machining plays a critical role in stress-relieving the metal, helping to prevent cracking and ensuring long-term performance.

This impressive oven — measuring 5.5m square by 1.4m high — can reach temperatures of up to 700°C. 🌡️

For this process, we carefully control the cycle:
• Heating at a maximum rate of 50°C per hour ⏱️
• Holding at temperature for 4 hours 🔧
• Controlled cooling at approximately 70°C per hour

Precision, control, and consistency are key to achieving the best possible results. ✅

✨ Projects like this are why we love what we do.

Working alongside talented designers, trusted partners, and our wider community to deliver something that genuinely enhances a public space is always a highlight for our team.

💛Huge congratulations to everyone involved and thanks for sharing this post with us Dream South D 👏

The fabricated and powder‑coated pieces were also a real standout at the Business-South & SOREC event at our workshops last week — well admired ❤️

⭐ What a pleasure to be the venue and hosts for the recent Business-South & SOREC Southland + Otago Regional Engineering Collective - Manufacturing and Engineering Tour (MET) Series!

Guests enjoyed an exclusive behind‑the‑scenes look at Farra, with the team showcasing our Kia and Mori CNC horizontal machining and boring capabilities, along with laser cutting and brake pressing in action 🛠️✨

We took over the Mechanical Engineering Design office, and our CEO, Sally Henderson shared the Farra story. She also joined a panel discussion alongside Surge Koleman (Procurement Manager, Dunedin City Council) and Isabelle Prosser (Founder, Prosser Communication), with a great conversation facilitated around procurement 💬🤝

It was a well‑attended and highly engaging event — a huge thanks to James Bracewell from SOREC for making this happen and pulling together such a successful MET Series 👏🙌

Lest We Forget. In Farra’s long history, war has touched our company and the lives of our people deeply — with many of our people answering the call to serve, some returning home, and others who did not. This Anzac Day, we pause to remember all who served. ❤️

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗖 & 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 (𝗠𝗘𝗧) 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟮 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, 𝟱:𝟬𝟬𝗽𝗺 at 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗛𝗤.

Learn about Farra's history and story. Following the workshop tour, join a panel discussion featuring local and central government experts, where you’ll learn more about public procurement and join other local people and businesses for some nibbles and networking.

Register here: https://business-south.org.nz/how-we-help/special-events/ -modal-412666

SOREC Southland + Otago Regional Engineering Collective
Business-South