Vector Annual Report 2017

BUSINESS UNITS: Gas Trading

Demand for bottled gas continues to increase, but the opportunities to fill-your-own are diminishing as service stations take bulk tanks out of the ground in the light of changes to New Zealand’s health and safety regime. Our new plant will help meet that shortfall. Swapping is safer and more convenient than other practices and Vector OnGas is a significant player, with a distribution channel of 274 retailers nationwide covering 875 retail outlets. The new bottling plant will not only help meet this change in consumer behaviour, it will also bring new jobs to the community. Vector is currently hiring people locally and training them to operate the machinery. It’s a huge opportunity to bring people with no formal skills into the business and give them the means to earn more than a living wage and build careers.

ONGAS: FILLING A NEED IN THE MARKET AND THE COMMUNITY:// The opening of our new Papakura gas bottling plant will bring new efficiencies to the business and new jobs to the community. Vector OnGas currently refills and refurbishes more than 600,000 nine-kilogram gas bottles a year, but the existing process is cumbersome, with much of it outsourced and each bottle handled up to 21 times. The new plant will enable semi-automated refilling and refurbishment of the popular nine-kilogram bottles, reduce handling by up to 80% and increase capacity to 1 million bottles per year. The new plant will also set a new standard for health and safety for bottle fills in New Zealand.

THE NEW PLANT WILL INCREASE FILLING CAPACITY TO 1 MILLION BOTTLES PER YEAR AND SET A NEW STANDARD FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR BOTTLE FILLS IN NEW ZEALAND.

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