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Merry Christmas from aquatherm® Another exceptional year for all the team here at aquatherm®. This would not be possible without the amazing support from you our valued customers,designers, engineers, plumbers and industry clients who have supported us through 6 years of growth in New Zealand. Special thanks as well to aquatherm® Germany, our distribution partners Plumbing World, Patton and our team here at aquatherm® New Zealand.

With a growing consumer understanding for competitively priced, long life installations in plumbing and HVAC the future looks strong for the aquatherm® range of leading edge products in the year ahead. With solutions in fusiotherm® and climatherm® now available up to 250mm, the introduction of aquatherm® SHT our flexible sliding sleeve system for volume housing and apartments. And the release next yearof our commercial sprinkler system aquatherm® firestop.

Have a wonderful Christmas, and we look forward to working with you all in the new year!

aquatherm® SHT released in New ZealandWe are extremely pleased to release in New Zealand the aquatherm® SHT system. Tried and tested in sanitary and heating for 30 years in Germany the fully BRANZ appraised system is now available here initially in sizes 16 - 20mm diameter in coils and straight lengths. Produced from the highly flexible material Polybutylene (PB) this system has the decisive advantage, that it can be completely installed in the family home as a stand alone system and or easily incorporated into the fusiotherm® pipe system where larger diameters are required such as ring mains all under one lifetime guarantee. With a comprehensive range ofsupporting sliding sleeve fittings, pre-insulated pipes this is a complete system and available on Masterspec for ease in specifying.

The advantages of the aquatherm® SHT sliding sleeve system are:

Highly flexible and easy to install
Corrosion resistant
Hygienically neutral
Microbiologically impeccable
Low friction and excellent flow rates
Sliding sleeve connections
High temperature and pressure resistance

BRANZ Appraised aquatherm® New Zealand's committment to ensuring our pipe system not only is manufactured to the highest quality standards in Europe, and independently verified but also importantly meets the requirements of the NZBC. aquatherm® SHT systems is BRANZ appraised for use as the piping components for water supply as per the scope of New Zealand Building Code (NZBC) Acceptable Solution G12/AS1 and Verification Method G12/VM1, and as pipe and fittings for proprietary heating systems subject to specific design. The SAI global approved fusiotherm® system under AS/ NZ 3500 is also in the final completion stages of a separate BRANZ appraisal, setting the highest benchmark for a PPR in this country.

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ASB Computer Centre Numecon are well pleased at the progress, appearance and costing advantages of using the climatherm® HVAC system. The ASB Computer Centre refit is currently being installed in 160mm by Havac Mechanical.

Holiday Inn Fusiotherm® was pre-assembled and installed to the cylinders by John Leems team on the Holiday Inn project in Wellington.

Kumatoto Plantroom JB Malcolm Plumbers welded the majority of the plantroom for the multistorey waterfront fusiotherm® project in the workshop. It was then transported to the site. Fusion welded jointing ensured there were no problems in the preassembly and transportation.

Mt Maunganui Aquatic Centre The recently completed Aquatic Centre in the Mount Maunganui by active apartment and institutional installers Glover Plumbing utilising fusiotherm® throughout for hot and cold potable water, ensures a long life installation in a demanding corrosive environment.

Stockton Mine Stockton Mine, an open cast mine covering a vast area of hill country in a remote area of Westland, and approximately 50km from Westport is often affected by rain, fog and sometimes snow, making for unpleasant working conditions. When planning the new machinery workshop, aquatherm® underfl oor heating was included in the specification to make life a little more pleasant for the mechanics and engineers working on the huge machinery required to facilitate this operation.

Sacred Waters Apartments, Taupo Comag Plumbers have installed another complete fusiotherm® pipe system at the new Taupo project Sacred Waters Apartments. The Taupo region having particularly high thermal areas is ideally suited to our systems resistance to corrosion damage.