Author Archives: Lance Watson

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation 45-53 days. That is how long a machine out of Europe used to sit on the water. With the Middle East conflicts, vessel rerouting and other factors – it’s now almost double that … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation A month into the new financial year and volumes are certainly trending up. From Christchurch, to Darwin, Melbourne and across much of New Zealand, the team has been either on the road talking … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation The conversations I’m having on site have shifted this year. Where buyers used to lead with price, more are now asking how a machine will lift their output and keep their people safe. … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation Good machinery decisions shouldn’t be made on specifications alone, and certainly not only on price (something about you get what you pay for..). The key consideration should be about whether what you are … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation Hard to believe we are almost through February. After a slow January on both sides of the Tasman, we are seeing that volumes are starting to pick up across many of our customers.We … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation 2025: Year in Review We delivered a significant slate of installations across the region – including two Thalmann TD folders, a new variable-purlin line in New Zealand, four nuSLIT cut-to-length lines, two nuIT … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation Tandarra Engineering: Where It All Started Tandarra Engineering isn’t just one of our key partners. It’s where it all started for me. Founded by my dad, Brian Watson, in 1982 in the garage … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation ONROLL: The Mobile Rollformer That Actually Works CIDAN Machinery just solved the portable rollforming problem. We’ve seen plenty of “revolutionary” portable rollformers over the years. Most disappoint when rubber meets road. ONROLL is … Continue reading →

Your Guide to Rollforming & Folding Innovation What we’re seeing on the ground: Service wins There’s lots of media talk on both sides of the Tasman about a slowdown in the manufacturing sector, and in broad terms that no doubt … Continue reading →