It’s all go at Mataura Valley Milk as we work through the commissioning phase of Project Recharge installing their new 20MW electrode boiler. This phase of the project is a bit different for an electrode boiler compared to a solid fuel boiler. There are no screws, conveyors or other moving…

It has been a busy few months of construction and commissioning and we are excited to announce the Fonterra Waitoa BFB boiler is now firing on biomass. Commissioning is to continue over the following weeks to fully tune the boiler to perform at its best and to cover the performance…

Site construction is well advancing on Fonterra Waitoa as we have just completed the boiler lift! The final assembled weight of the boiler was approx. 110 tonnes. A crawler crane in a “superlift” configuration was required, with assistance from a secondary tailing crane to rotate the boiler mid-air. Once the…

Windsor Energy attended the annual IAPWS (International Association for the Properties of Water & Steam) Conference in Rotorua. This year’s one day workshop was titled The Future of Industrial Steam in NZ. We were given an opportunity to present on Coal to Biomass Boiler Conversions and shared Windsor’s experience and…

The bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) is a fundamental part of the Fonterra Waitoa boiler. The bed design was completed by the Windsor Energy team in Napier under licence of Babcock & Wilcox. We are then lucky enough to get this fabricated by our Windsor Engineering workshop based in Porirua. When…

The Fonterra Waitoa project has reached an exciting milestone as fabrication of the boiler furnace and economiser are now completed. The following pictures show the boiler pieces and economiser leaving our workshop in Thailand and being shipped to New Zealand. Boiler Generating Bank Due to the size of the boiler…

This month the Energy team had two very special long-service awards handed out. These were to our Construction & Manufacturing Specialist – Robert Parker, and our General Manager – Nigel Martin. Both Robert & Nigel started at Easteel Industries Ltd (the original name of the company that subsequently became RCR…

Windsor’s client Fonterra has committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to transition off coal by 2037. Windsor Energy is proud to have been selected to deliver a brand new 30MW (45t/h) steam boiler plant fired on wood biomass for the Waitoa site. The new boiler will enable…

Our latest dairy client on their decarbonisation journey is Mataura Valley Milk (MVM) where we are excited to announce we are installing a new Electrode Boiler Plant. This boiler is sized to fulfill the entire site requirement of steam and will replace the existing coal fired boiler. This will make…

The New Zealand government have created an initiative investing in the decarbonisation of industrial process heat. The focus of the fund (known as the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry fund, or GIDI fund) is to boost decarbonisation of industrial processes through energy efficiency, innovative technologies, and fuel switching. So far,…

From the 3rd of December New Zealand moved into the new Covid Protection Framework. Currently Windsor Group offices are open and operating under Traffic Light Red or Orange. Red Currently this covers our Auckland operations. We are receiving and despatching goods. Face to face pickup will be by prearranged collection…

Despite the complications of a nationwide lockdown, Windsor were able to complete the design and fabrication of the TT32-410 Air Heater for our client in Europe in the required timeframe. As standard for our NZ fabricated air heaters, we successfully completed Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) of the unit before it…

Windsor Group has appointed Philip Gedye as CEO taking over from Mark Holm. Philip joins Windsor from his most recent role as CEO of Auckland and Waikato Cranes, however he is a familiar face to many in the Windsor Group having worked in the industry for much of his career….

After over 46 years with Windsor (and group company IPSCO before that), Mark Holm has decided the time is right to hand over day to day leadership of the company. Having worked in all aspects of the IPSCO business and led the combined Windsor Group for the last 11 years,…

Last week commissioning was completed on the urgent replacement air heater for the OCD Horotiu site. The project was awarded to Windsor after one of the two existing overseas supplied units failed. Windsor offered a TT144-230, a two pass air heater with recuperator that was sized to replace both the…

Fonterra, along with Windsor Energy, have successfully converted the 43MW Towerpak™ boiler at Te Awamutu from firing on coal to firing on wood pellets. This will eliminate an estimated 84,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per year and reduce Fonterra’s overall coal energy consumption by an expected 10%. The boiler is…

Windsor is pleased to be awarded a project for a large global food and beverage company in Europe. This site requires 32 tonnes per hour of 410°C air to their food drying process. We have offered one of our high performance Tubular Type Indirect Fired Air Heaters complete with a…