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The Quikstak ‘smart-stacker’ from Simpro has been essential equipment for hundreds of businesses across Australia and New Zealand since 1994. We have taken the Quikstak , and re-imagined it for 2016. Our new {cms_selflink page='pallet-stackers' text='Quikstak® S-Series'} range has everything that made the original {cms_selflink page='quikstak-smart-stacker'} popular. The ‘magic-eye’...

In 2007, Simpro introduced an unexpected option for their range of bin-tipping machines. Nuclear Power. Don’t worry, you are unlikely to be irradiated by your waste-handling machinery. The nuclear power plant in question has operated safely for some 4.6 billion years, and is quite far away . Solar power is in some ways the holy grail of sustainable green technology. Unlike windfarms, it...

Hint: a lot. The standard Dumpmaster uses a hydraulic tipping mechanism that is rated to 300kg (660 pounds). We put it to the test with a Toter 96-Gallon cart full of water.

I’ve emptied our wheelie bins for years using plain old elbow grease, and never had a problem. Why should someone now tell me I have to use a machine? We hear this occasionally, and understand the sentiment. If you’ve manually lifted bins for years and never suffered so much as a tweaked muscle, purchasing a machine to do the job might seem an unnecessary investment. It is, however, a...

The stainless steel column-lift Eurobin tipper from Simpro, designed for hygiene critical environments. For more information view the EurOver product page .

How do I know if my staff are at risk of strain injuries from their daily routines? It’s a matter of judgement in each case, but there are certain things to look out for, such as people puffing and sweating, excessive fatigue, bad posture, cramped work areas, awkward or heavy loads, or people with a history of back trouble. Operators can often highlight which activities are unpopular,...

Simpro will be exhibiting this year at Foodtech Packtech , New Zealand’s largest food manufacturing, packaging and processing technology trade show. FTPT will be held from 11 th -13 th October 2016, at the ASB showgrounds in Auckland. We’ll be showing off our range of NZ-made stainless steel lifting and tipping products at Stand 2038, Hall 2 – and we’ve got the new Eurover...

We've just released a small video showing the operation of our innovative new stacker - the Crate Wizard™. It was developed specifically to handle plastic crates of the type often used in bakeries and food processing plants. The Crate Wizard™ is currently available across New Zealand and Australia. For more information visit our product page...

Check out the feature on Simpro in Auckland Today magazine, July 2016: https://issuu.com/magazinestoday/docs/at119/56?e=0

...when a bin tipper does tip bins? After all the improvements we have made to our battery-powered bin tippers over the last few years, we decided to put them to the test and see just how much a fully charged machine will empty. The results were amazing! To get this kind of performance from your older Dumpmaster or Multi-Tip, check with us for a special price on our EXCEL Powercharge...

The following brief video was shot at twenty past seven, on the morning of 1 July 1916. In the minutes that followed, 750,000 men left the safety of their trenches. Of those, about 20,000 did not see another morning. The Battle of the Somme doesn’t have anything to do with materials handling equipment, but we’re posting about it anyway because we have an obligation to those brave...

Simpro has been a corporate sponsor of Westpac Rescue Helicopter in Auckland, NZ, for 15 years now. That's quite a few framed photographs!

Simpro does business in both the United Kingdom and Europe, so this interesting event will have some effect on our operations. But the short answer is, not a lot. The most immediate result has been a drop in the value of the pound, which makes imported products more expensive in the UK. However, much of this drop is due to uncertainty and surprise in the markets, not to economic...

Simpro’s first machines were designed on paper and built by hand. We didn’t have a fax machine, let alone a computer. How things have changed. Today, our products are designed in SolidWorks – the cutting-edge CAD package from Dassault Systèmes . With SolidWorks, we can design a new machine, test, tweak and finalise it without cutting a single sheet of steel. Physics simulations ensure it...

Just a neat photo of the Simpro bin tipper range. These machines look smart because they are! Find your nearest distributor here.

As safety in the workplace generally improves, the heavy lifting involved in emptying waste bins has been responsible for an increasing share of total workplace injuries. Simpro has been pleased to see increasing awareness of this risk in recent years. In Australia, Brisbane Catholic Education have issued a Safety Alert to their 137 schools on the topic: Large Wheelie Bins Not to be...

Chris Tasker, Simpro Australia Sales Manager, is at the Waste360 expo in Las Vegas this week supporting our distributor Solus Group presenting our products to the US market. With nearly 600 exhibitors, Waste360 is the largest waste industry show in North America. Chris says that despite the temperatures in the Nevada desert topping out at over 40° C, the feedback has been overwhelmingly...

The sales team are back in New Zealand this week, after an interesting and productive few days at IFAT and CEMAT in Germany. Many thanks to all those agents, suppliers and customers from around the world who caught up with us at the world’s largest waste expo!

Last month, we made some subtle tweaks to our logo. We updated a font, and added our formal mission statement: Improving workplace safety through smart lifting solutions. Although that’s what Simpro ’s mission has always been, we only quite recently codified it into a formal statement. It’s a statement that covers everything we do – the motive behind all of our products. It’s about...

There have been some extraordinary changes since 1986. That year, the US president was Ronald Reagan , nobody had heard of ‘Made in China’ and a basic work PC cost $5,000 (with no internet, and an optional upgrade to colour graphics!). Incomes in Australia were about half what they are today – and even less in New Zealand. Also that year, though not many people noticed, the first...