Farra Engineering

🚀 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 ⚙️✨

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 👌

⭐ 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 👏🙌