Supporting Industry

We believe the economy in which we work has retracted over the last few months.  Ain’t that grim !!! Our response is to up our engagement across industry bodies to support our clients and staff (RDCL – Professional Development & Affiliations).

RDCL company and staff are members of numerous technical societies and industry groups  representing and serve on national, branch and local committees including:

• NZ Branch committee of the AusIMM (www.ausimm.co.nz; and www.ausimm.com.au),
• ACENZ representative for Hawkes Bay (www.acenz.org.nz),
• NZ Contractors Federation Hawkes Bay regional committee (www.nzcontractors.co.nz), and
• NZ Minerals Industry Association national committee (www.minerals.co.nz)

This engagement allows us to sample widely across our markets and to understand the economic conditions in which we work.  In this way we identify opportunities, and also better understand the pressures affecting our clients.

We see some relief in the price of commodities including gold, coal and dairy (at least next year) and are hopeful that manufacturing can maintain growth.  We know that some residential development is happening, but really cannot see a substantial driver for growth in that sector.  We have seen no benefit from any “stimulus package” and don’t expect to in our region.

So, will we keep concentrating on:

• Serving you our clients,
• mining – coal and gold, mostly because we love it and can see the up-side in the industry,
• water – cause we think it’s going to be “BIG”,
• rail ‘cause we love that too, and
• power ‘cause everyone needs it !

Rock on.