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Kia ora ,
Today we are running our last events for 2024. We are going out with a bang having a NASA scientist and a Minister of the government at events in the Hutt Valley.
It has been an amazing year and I think we have worked very hard for you, our amazing business community.
We have:
- Organised and run 98 events to support networking, training, connections, awards and pathways.
- Kept you informed with news, information, event updates, work opportunities, and offers through 96 email campaigns through the year.
- Organised the hugely successful 2degrees Wellington Regional Business Excellence Awards 2024 celebrating the success of the Hutt Valley and regional business community.
- Advocated for you with our Councils, Government agencies, MPs and Ministers
- Had the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Leader of the opposition, Minister of Social Development, Minister of Education speak at events in the Hutt Valley.
- Inspired and informed our next generation towards the careers available in the Hutt Valley
I have personally been inspired every time I leave my office by the work, people, innovation, manufacturing, construction and infrastructure, and science and research that occurs in the Hutt Valley. And then there is every business that is working so hard every day to provide services, products, and support throughout the Hutt Valley. You are all contributing to the $10b economy we have here. The Hutt Valley is the absolute gem in our region. We are hopefully on the up again after a tough 2024 and heading towards thriving in 2025.
We could not of course do our work without the support of our members and our brilliant partners. So a HUGE THANKS to the following organisations who have partnered with us in 2024:
Platinum Partners
- ANZ – www.anz.co.nz
- Gibson Sheat Lawyers – www.gibsonsheat.com
- Pertronic – www.pertronic.co.nz
- NZME – www.nzme.co.nz
- ACC – www.acc.co.nz
- PKF Kendons – www.kendons.co.nz
- IT Works - www.itworks.co.nz
Gold Partners
- Cossie Club Upper Hutt – www.cossieclubs.org.nz
- Open Polytechnic – www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz
Silver Partners
- Link Business Brokers – www.linkbusiness.co.nz
- 360 Logistics – www.360lg.co.nz
- Synthesis Marketing – www.synthesis.co.nz
Bronze Partners
- Forsyth Barr – www.forsythbarr.co.nz
- Red Hot Business Consulting – www.redhot.co.nz
- Survive-It – www.survive-it.co.nz
- iPayroll – www.ipayroll.co.nz
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A Huge Thank you to all our Partners for your continued support.
Welcome to these new members of the Hutt Valley Chamber!
In this edition of the Hutt Valley Business Weekly:
- Member News & Events
- National News
- Regional News
- Hutt Valley Manufacturing & Innovation News
- Te Awa Kairangi - Delivering Riverlink
- Seaview Business News
- Work Opportunities
- Member Offers
- Employment
We welcomed a bunch of new members at the November New Members event!
We’re excited to introduce Bidable, Blue Star, Jarden Wealth, JDF Accountants Ltd, Joanne Toon Business Consultant, Make it Count NZ, Mexican Supplies Ltd, One Good Thought, PB Technologies Ltd, Reliance Utilities, SSS - Cybersecurity Specialists, Tech on Road, Wellington Refrigeration Ltd, Simply Security, Omega Hutt Valley, Mindful Intimacy Coaching, Brendan Foot Supersite, and Pursuit!
Thank you for joining the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce. We can’t wait to see the you all getting involved! 🎉
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- Staff amenities: Shower room, kitchen, and gender-specific/staff toilets
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Contact Pete Lagan today to learn more or arrange a viewing!
Te Ara Tupua Update
Check out the seawall being built alongside State Highway 2 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington harbour for Te Ara Tupua – the project to improve State Highway 2's resilience between Wellington and Lower Hutt.
It's been a busy month for our teams working on several sections on the project. Here you can see one of the six vertical seawalls on the project – to date workers have installed just under half the vertical seawall blocks and interlocking concrete blocks that'll make a sloping coastal defence. Once finished these'll add up to 2.7 kilometres of protection for the road and rail line.
Alongside the seawall our teams are building culverts and preparing to install the remaining four piles required for the bridge that'll cross over the railway line.
Also behind the scenes, we recently reached an important milestone when we connected the middle of the project area to the Pito-One (Petone) causeway – that's allowed our machinery and crew to access all 4.5 kilometres of the project area from one end to the other: https://www.facebook.com/100064782666159/videos/857234769948650
If you regularly travel along SH2 you'll be well familiar with the two temporary wharves we used to get to the middle of the project area – we'll start removing these wharves in the second quarter of 2025.
You can keep up to date with our work on Te Ara Tupua by signing up to our email newsletter. Visit our website to sign up, and to find out more about the project: https://www.nzta.govt.nz/tearatupua
Are NZ SME manufacturers primed for a bounce back?
The downward economic trend for the NZ SME manufacturing industry has stabilised, with key signals pointing to a recovery, according to new data from inventory management software company, Unleashed.
The quarterly Unleashed Manufacturing Report showed purchasing activity by New Zealand manufacturers rose in Q3 for the first time since the end of 2022, indicating future growth for Kiwi producers.
From the Hutt Valley to the Space Sation
Exciting News from the Hutt Valley’s Paihau—Robinson Research Institute!
The team has just boxed and shipped Hēki to the United States, marking a significant milestone toward the April 2025 launch to the International Space Station.
The Hēki Mission will test groundbreaking superconducting magnet and power supply technologies in space, which will pave the way for new plasma thruster applications for satellites and spacecraft. This significant advancement in space research underscores New Zealand’s commitment to pioneering scientific innovation.
This is a proud moment for our institute and Aotearoa, New Zealand, as it highlights our place as an emerging key player in global space research.
With the dedication and talent of our Space Research team, the sky is no longer the limit—together, They are reaching for the stars.
Watch the mini ramp come to life!
Check out this timelapse of the new Avalon Skatepark being built, focusing on the mini ramp! From the first pour to the final smooth finish, the precision and craftmanship is incredible. The concrete surface is flawless —it’s going to be perfect for skating.
Shoutout to the crew for their hard work in creating this masterpiece. Can’t wait to see people shred the ramp soon! Who’s excited?
Flood protection steps up
This month Greater Wellington is progressing the next phase of its critical work to protect the Lower Hutt community from flooding.
Willows relocated from along the riverbank are being laid horizontally into the beach to create soft edge protections that's friendly to river life.
Message from Wellington Water CEO
"To members of the Seaview community
On Monday night I was part of the team that met with members of your community to explain the causes behind the elevated levels of stench from the Seaview wastewater treatment plant. It has been an extremely stressful time for the community and for those working at the plant and we appreciated the opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation to discuss the issue.
I’d like to say a sincere thank you to all those who attended to listen to the presenters. Our technical leads were especially grateful at how respectful you were at the meeting as it allowed them to speak freely and share the necessary information without interruption. The questions and comments were a helpful indicator of the thinking within the community and that has also given us some things to take away and review.
We hope to be back via the normal notification email within the next week with feedback on the suggestion to trial turning off the deodoriser. Details are being worked through.
In the meantime, we have a regular newsletter on a dedicated project page, that provides ongoing updates to the community. Please share this information with others who may not have signed up to receive the community notifications."
Community Meeting Update
Thank you to those who attended the community liaison meeting on Monday 25 November.
We know it has been an extremely stressful time for the community. We appreciated the opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation to discuss recent issues that have resulted in increased odour from the plant.
The Mayor of Lower Hutt, Wellington Water Chief Executive and staff, and senior management from plant operators, Veolia, spoke at the meeting. Chief Executive, Hutt City Council Jo Miller was also in attendance. They all reiterated that the Seaview Wastewater Treatment Plant is a top priority and that the level of odour is completely unacceptable. However, all speakers also emphasised that there is no quick fix or silver bullet to reducing the odour from the plant. It is likely there will be intermittent occurrences of increased odour at the plant for a while as we work to replace and upgrade aging equipment at the plant.
Community members spoke about the emotional toll of the stench and the ongoing impact on their wellbeing, their businesses, and their house prices.
All speakers acknowledged the huge impact on the community. Mayor Campbell Barry said what the council can do is give people confidence that everything possible is being done to fix the problem.
Wellington Water's CE Pat Dougherty assured the community that Wellington Water and Veolia would be doing all they could to minimise odour over the holiday period. This included avoiding any maintenance or upgrades that might cause odour levels to increase.
We were especially grateful that the meeting was conducted respectfully, with a safe space for all speakers to talk freely and share information without interruption. We appreciate all the questions and comments from the community which have given us some things to take away and review.
In response to the concerns raised by the community at the meeting, we are working on three key actions/next steps:
- Turning off the odour neutralisers to see if this reduces the impact on the community, without increasing odour effects.
- Increase monitoring of odour from the plant.
- Providing the community with more timely and frequent information about the likelihood of high odour levels from the plant so people can plan.
A summary of the discussions at the meeting and issues raised, presentations from speakers alongside a Q&A document will be made available on our website over the next week. We will send out a link to this once it has been published.
Next Steps
Turning off the odour neutralisers
We heard loud and clear from some community members at the meeting that the odour neutralisers were having a negative impact on the community. In response to this, we will be trialling a two-week shutdown of the odour neutralisers to see if this helps. The trial will start 4 December and continue until 18 December 2024.
To help us to assess the impact and effectiveness of the trial, we are asking the community to fill in a quick online odour survey daily to let us know of your experience of odour levels. You can fill in this survey up to three times a day – morning, noon, and evening or whenever you notice a smell.
If there is significant negative impact experienced by the community during the trial, it will be shut down earlier than planned. We will be monitoring feedback, odour scouting results and complaints very closely throughout the trial.
We will keep the survey link live for two weeks after the neutralisers have been turned back on. We encourage you to continue to complete the survey to help us to establish a 'baseline'.
We will keep you updated on the progress throughout the trial period via our interested parties’ email and Facebook page.
The odour survey is simple and very quick to complete. We appreciate your help with this.
Increased monitoring of odour
We have started investigating other ways to increase our monitoring of odour from the plant, to provide us with an indication of increased odour levels at key areas in the community.
We need to consider the types of monitoring that will be fit-for-purpose for our environment, and this may take us a bit of time. We are working on this, and we have our engineering team exploring options.
Once we have further information and options to do this, we will seek community feedback and input.
More timely and frequent updates on potential for high odour levels
We will look at ways to increase communications on the status of odour at the plant on the Wellington Water website. This could include monitoring wind direction, noting when there is work or events onsite that could cause an increase in odour, and making the findings of the work by odour scouters more accessible.
As this requires further investigation and changes to our website, this is not something we can do immediately. We will keep you updated on progress via email.
Update on work at the plant
Sludge is semi-solid residue from the process of bacteria consuming pollutants in wastewater. It is normally dried into pellets which are transported to landfill.
The recent sludge dryer outages caused a backlog of sludge in the system, throwing the biological waste treatment process out of balance. This contributed to the odour, as did the need to truck sludge that had not been dried to the landfill.
The dryer is now back online, and we are making progress with clearing the backlog. However, we will need to keep intermittently trucking some sludge to the landfill to help clear the backlog as quickly as possible. This is scheduled to resume on Tuesday, 3 December. We have erected scaffolding and cover in the area where sludge is being loaded to reduce the odour when this process is being undertaken.
Improvements in the biological process have been noted and we are doing all we can to get the process back into balance with the plant operating at design levels as soon as possible.
The reports on the fire and mechanical failure will be made available on our website when completed.
A DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) optimisation trial will resume on Tuesday, 3 December. This treatment process thickens the solids from the biological wastewater sludge prior to being processed in the centrifuges and dryer. This trial is being undertaken to optimise this process, supporting efficient plant operations.
Primary Sedimentation Tank 2 needs some urgent maintenance and is being drained down over the next two weeks, with plans to minimise odour while this work is completed.
Seaview Odour Notification
We are about to start a trial at the Seaview Wastewater Treatment Plant, where we’ll be turning off odour deodorisers at the plant for two weeks to assess the impact on odour levels. This is in response to community feedback in a recent meeting on 25 November where it was shared that the chemicals used in this equipment made the odour worse.
The trial details are:
- The trial runs from Wednesday, 4 December until Wednesday, 18 December.
- To help us to assess the impact and effectiveness of the trial, we are asking the community to fill in a quick online odour survey daily to let us know of your experience of odour levels.
- You can fill in this survey whenever you notice a smell.
- Please continue to complete the survey until the end of December so we may establish a baseline for comparison purposes.
- If there is significant negative impact experienced by the community during the trial, it will be shut down earlier than planned.
- We will be monitoring feedback, odour scouting results and complaints very closely throughout the trial.
We thank you for your patience and understanding. We acknowledge the impact the odour has had and how incredibly frustrating this is. We would like to assure you we are doing everything we can to minimise odour. If you have questions regarding the information provided, please get in touch with us: community@wellingtonwater.co.nz
Scan the QR to access an online copy of the survey or visit our website https://www.wellingtonwater.co.nz/
If you need assistance with completing an RFI or RFP please contact:
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This is for any campaigns starting in 2024
Hyundai TUCSON SUV on run-out for $99 per week
Grab yourself a bargain on one of our most popular mid-sized Hybrid SUVs – Hyundai Tucson – on run-out now from only $99 per week. Hurry, these deals won’t last. There’s limited stock available and the offer is only on until 31 December 2024. See and try them for yourself at Railway Ave, Lower Hutt - open every day. Fees, ts and cs, and credit criteria apply.
How much is your home worth?
One of the most common questions home owners ask me us, “What is my home is worth in today’s market?” As your local area specialists, we are offering our opinion of value on homes in the area.
Each appraisal will take approximately 15 minutes to complete, there is no charge and no obligation.
With our compliments you will receive:
- A comprehensive property appraisal report outlining the current value range for your property.
- Detailed market analysis on properties recently sold and currently on the market in your area.
- Helpful information about methods of sale, marketing strategies and presentation tips.
Naturally, strict confidentiality will be adhered to for each property owner.
Please note this is not a registered valuation.
To book a convenient time please contact us any time.
Complimentary CNC Machining Demo
Curious if a CNC machine can make your parts? DATUM CNC is offering a no-obligation demonstration with their versatile DGM-S1 Gantry Mill. Simply send your 3D files or drawings, and they’ll machine your component at no cost (some material costs may apply). The DGM-S1 can handle plastics, composites, brass, aluminum, or steel, and you'll receive a machined part.
Interested? Contact them today to book your demo!
Custom made bracket for OSMO DJI Pocket 2 camera.
Free Coffee & Chat - Let’s Talk Money | Helium
Successful business owners often face unique financial challenges and opportunities. We help you take control of your financial future, so you can focus on growing your business and living the life you want.
Get personalised financial planning and investment strategies to help you create a future filled with wealth, happiness, and freedom.
2025 Desk Calendars – Customised for Your Business
Give the perfect client gift! Our 2025 Desk Calendars feature stunning New Zealand landscapes and can be customised with your business logo. Ideal for staying top of mind with clients all year long.
Contact Jeshal today to place your order! - 021 206 2536
Semper Semper Studio 20% Discount for Chamber Members
Semper Semper Studio is offering 20% off all branding and design services, including strategic branding, graphic design, web design, print design, social media and campaign design to HVCC members. We're dedicated to helping Hutt Valley businesses grow and thrive, locally and internationally. The offer is valid indefinitely for current members.
Give Sam a call to see how we can help - 021 246 2707 | sam@sempersemper.studio
15% discount on any orders of $5000+ from Bluestar
Bluestar is offering a 15% discount on any orders of $5000 or more until the end of October 2024.
Explore their services at:
- www.bluestar.co.nz
- www.futures.bluestar.co.nz for Pacific Island opportunities.
Don’t miss out on this limited-time offer!
Looking to cut your energy costs? | Reliance Utilities
As NZ's fastest-growing energy broker, we secure the best deals for businesses, saving you up to 20% on your power bill. Simple, efficient, and reliable.
Reach out to Jigar from Reliance Utilities and start saving today.
Your best energy deal, on us.
2degrees Business Mobile| Chamber Member Deal
Join 2degrees on an eligible business mobile plan and get 2 months free. As a Chamber member you’ll also get 15% off for the life of your plan.
Bunnings Trade | PowerPass Member Deal
Unlock a range of discounts and simplify the procurement of a huge range of products across our nationwide store network.
Bunnings Trade has partnered with NZ Chambers of Commerce to offer members access to the PowerPass membership program providing a range of exclusive benefits.
For any questions or queries, please feel free to email us at orgs@bunnings.co.nz.
Inferno Outdoor Fireplaces Deal
Inferno Fires specialises in making their client's dreams & memories come true in their backyard. Inferno Outdoor Fires has a special offer for Chamber members of 5% off the marked price.
To find out more, click the button below!
Air New Zealand | Chamber Deals
For businesses looking to leverage the vast array of offerings from Air New Zealand, there's good news. Air New Zealand has crafted a specialised Business Services page that outlines the multitude of options and programs available for businesses.
To find out more, click the button below!
Z Energy | Chamber Deals
Z Business is delighted to advise that Chamber of Commerce members discount will increase from 10 cents per litre to 11 cents per litre off pump at service stations and truck stops from Monday 5 February.
To find out more, click the button below!
Upgrade your fleet this year and pay nothing until March 2025
Right now, you can finance ANY Brendan Foot Supersite used, demo or new car with ZERO deposit and pay nothing until March 2025*. This offer is exclusive to Brendan Foot Supersite. We’ve never done this before, and we may never do it again – so take advantage of this unmissable deal before it ends on 31 December 2024
50% discount on one-off deep cleaning service | CrewCare
As part of our commitment to the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce Member-to-Member Discount Program, we are prepared to offer a 50% discount on our one-off deep cleaning service to all Chamber members. This significant discount is designed to provide value to our fellow members.
How to claim: Call on the 0800 number provided in the promo (0800-800-209)
T&C's apply.
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Thank you to all our Partners
As always, special thanks to all our Members and Partners for your ongoing support.
