Todd Buchanan , Managing Partner in charge of business development and President of SiCam Systems Corporation www.sicamsystems.com says: "Southern Cross Engineering is well positioned to supply and support our SiCam™ technologies in the Australasia region. With our recently completed SiCamT RealTime Lumber Sizes Control System projects at Carter Holt Harvey's Mount Gambier and Morwell operations, we have a strong local reference base. Southern Cross Engineering will now provide direct sales, installation and after sale support services. We are pleased with this partnership and it demonstrates SiCam Systems Corporation's long-term commitment to the Australasia region.
Southern Cross Engineering www.sce.co.nz provides a wide range of engineering services, professional engineers and qualified technicians serving the heavy structural, mechanical engineering, sawmilling and wood re-processing industries. They operate throughout New Zealand and Australia and also handle major projects throughout the Pacific Rim countries, with manufacturing premises in Christchurch , New Zealand .
Southern Cross specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of a large range of heavy-duty equipment, including:
- sawmills, saw milling and dry milling machinery (debarkers, bandmills, resaws, edgers, gangs, log carriages, bin and sling sorters, stackers, and planer/moulder equipment),
- all types of cranes and hoists,
- materials-handling equipment, ship loading and other port facilities,
- general mechanical engineering.
Facilities in Christchurch are housed in approximately 5500m² of manufacturing machine shop, steel fabrication and assembly departments. Today there is a staff of 80 persons. In Brisbane they have 700m² of office and showroom.
Brett Hawkes , Project and Spares/Service Manager o f Southern Cross Engineering states: "SiCam Systems technology products are widely recognized as the premium lumber size control brand in the sawmilling industry. The systems are well established in North America with a track record of delivering exceptional value. Today, real-time lumber size control is a cornerstone technology for every competitive sawmill and we wanted to offer the best of those products to our customers in Australasia ."
SiCam™ Systems are Supplied and Supported by:
Southern Cross Engineering in Australasia and can be contacted at:
Australia : Phone +61-7-3890 1244 Email: sce@sceaust.com
New Zealand : Phone +64-3-384 2019 Email: sce@sce.com.nz
www.sce.co.nz
SiCam Systems Corporation designs, markets and supports the SiCam™ RealTime and SiCam™ Caliper lumber size control technologies. SiCam™ RealTime is installed in more than 35 operations and 75+ scan centers. The SiCam™ Caliper System is installed in over 125 sites in four countries. The SiCam™ name is widely known in the lumber industry as the premium lumber size control brand.
SiCam Systems Corporation's team is internationally recognized as pioneers and leaders in the field of lumber size control and sawing center predictive maintenance. SiCam Systems Corporation is located in Surrey ( Vancouver ) British Columbia , Canada and it can be reached at:
