Welcome to the New Zealand Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA)

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HERA's Mission:  
To advance the NZ Metals Engineering Industry by accelerating innovation and by strengthening its combined opportunities through the provision of research, education, marketing and advocacy functions.

Through its specialist staff HERA provides a combination of research, training, advisory, industry development and promotional services making it the national centre for metals-based product development, manufacturing technology and inspection and quality assurance.

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As a HERA member, you receive full access to HERA engineers and specialist staff with expertise in a broad range of engineering disciplines. Join HERA today...

News Headlines

Striking Oil – A Local Procurement Plan

On 1st June, the New Zealand Government granted Petrobras an exploration permit for the Raukumara Basin. It would be nice, however, to think that a local procurement plan for New Zealand companies was at least discussed with Petrobras before they were granted a license...

Bridge Development Group Annual Wellington Meeting Update

On Thursday 19th of August, the annual Wellington meeting of the HERA-led Bridge Development Group (BDG) was one of the biggest meetings to date...

HERA Submission to Brownlee Energy Strategy

HERA welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the Government’s most recent Strategy document. The draft strategy focuses on four priorities to achieve that: Developing resources...

Events

HERA Annual General Meeting

HERA members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting on the 14th of September...

Welding Inspection

The course is suitable for persons who are preparing for their CBIP welding inspector examination and for technical people who are employed within manufacturing construction, or maintenance fields as part of quality assurance systems, or by third party inspectorates, or by contractor's procurement departments where welding inspection is required.

Seminars by UK Expert on EU Compliance & Regulatory Systems

Conformance UK Ltd Managing Director Nick Williams will be in New Zealand for a series of presentations on what new EU compliance requirements for Machinery, Electronic and Technical Manufacturers means to New Zealand manufacturers & engineering companies exporting, or who considering exporting to EU markets...

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In Focus

Coating Industry Checklist Now Available

The New Zealand Coating Industry Checklist is now available as a free download from the Steel Bridge Development Group (BDG) webpage. For more information on the Checklist and to download your free copy, click here.

Finite Element Analysis
HERA has an advanced in-house finite element analysis (FEA) capability, which is an integral part of the experimental design and verification for HERA’s Structural Systems and New Zealand Welding Centre applied research-related activities. Further information is given in our  FEA brochure.

World-leading Expert on Stainless Steel Fabrication Coming to NZ
HERA in cooperation with NZ Stainless Steel Development Association invited Dr Damian Kotecki, one of the world’s leading experts on stainless steel fabrication, to share his valuable knowledge with our industry. Dr Kotecki will be here in October for a series of seminars around the country. For more information, click HERE.

 

 

 

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