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Established in 1966, Plucks Engineering Ltd (Plucks) is a second-generation family business that differentiates itself as a flexible, customer-centric agricultural manufacturing and repair engineering company.
Ideally located in Rakaia between Christchurch and Ashburton in New Zealand, Plucks is perfectly poised to deliver overnight – if not same day – and their workshop designs and develops fast, flexible farm and heavy machinery.
As Neil Pluck, Managing Director for Plucks explains: “We are firmly rooted in agriculture and specialise in the manufacture and repair of a vast range of agricultural machinery – ranging from cultivation, drilling, heavy water ballast land rollers, square bale feeders and general repairs of most agricultural machinery”.
“We produce a large range of dairy effluent products, ranging from concrete enviro saucers, pumps and rafts, effluent main lines, travelling effluent irrigators, pond stirrers and dairy effluent screening equipment. Around 60 – 70% of what we do is focused on effluent.”
Plucks’ solutions are sold throughout New Zealand and are exported to Australia, Brazil, Chile, UK, and the UAE.
Neil says that the company looks for expertise, knowledge and skill when searching for the ideal supplier. “We rely heavily on our suppliers to complete our product offering.”
Neil underpins the importance of suppliers’ finances and stock availability. “In the past we had suppliers who had to close or couldn’t supply what we needed on time. This had a knock-on effect and was problematic for all parties involved.”
Plucks’ journey for a model gearbox supplier began a few years ago. The company was in search of a new supplier to assist with a gearbox for a brand-new application: an effluent pond stirrer. “We initially started working with dairy farms in the 1980’s to provide a range of irrigators, pumps and mainlines, but as the farms got bigger so did the effluent ponds.”
