Macaulay Metals

Newsletter
From the Managing Directors Desk......
Happy New Year! Welcome back to another year at Macaulay Metals. I hope you and your families had a wonderful Christmas and managed to enjoy the holiday period. 2012 promises to be an exciting year. The year started out with a decent warm up exercise! We completed loading a full ship of steel scrap from Marsden Point and our Wellington Yard. In the process we actually totally emptied out the Wellington Yard. It has been a very long time since we have seen an empty yard in Wellington. A few photos below showing one of the hatches on the ship and the Wellington Yard nearly empty! Issue 9, March 2012

I would like to welcome our new staff members including our new Chief Operating Officer, Marty Roelofs. With both Marty and the new Board of Directors we can look forward to many improvements within our business this year. I am confident that we will achieve happier, more motivated teams and hence happier and more satisfied scrap suppliers and buyers. We also have several new and exciting pieces of equipment about to arrive in the Wellington yard. A Freightliner hook truck and a Sennebogan Material Handler. These will arrive over the next few weeks and are certainly very impressive pieces of gear. We will put some photos up on the Macaulay Metals Facebook page when they arrive. In early February we opened our new yard in Gisborne. Alan Foote has moved from the Whakatane yard to be the Gisborne Yard Manager. A massive effort went into opening the Gisborne Yard and I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who made this possible. Over the next few weeks we will be starting a marketing campaign in the Gisborne area. I am really looking forward to working will you all again this year. ~Jeff

New Team Members

Rotorua
Jade Helmbright - Scrap Metal Worker Graeme Hardie - Casual Truck Driver

Group
Marty Roelofs - Chief Operating Officer

Gisborne
Cody Atkins - Truck Driver Robert Miller -Machine Operator

Long Service Recognition

Well done to all of last years Long Service Achievers, its a new year and we have a new list growing of staff who have made a significant time contribution to Macaulay Metals, up to the end of February we have just one, Rapu Makiua in our Rotorua Yard who has reached 15 years service. WELL DONE! All long service achievers will be formally recognised at the end of the year.

CONGRATULATIONS! - New Family Additions

Ray from our Wellington yard and his wife Sara are excited to have a new daughter in their family. Kyra-Jean was born at the healthy weight of 4.54kg (10 pounds!) Rawiri from Whakatane is a proud dad of a baby boy born Wednesday 28th December 2011. Rico was born at 2.86kg and he and mum Toni are doing well.

CONGRATULATIONS - NZ number 1 !!!

A big congratulations goes out to our new staff member in Gisborne, Rob, along with his dad Dean who won the NZ National Sidecar Championships in Auckland. Well done on becoming the best in New Zealand!

Fresh Fruit
A big thanks goes out to Jeff for supplying all staff at Macaulay Metals with weekly fresh fruit - heres what the staff have been saying..... The fruit is going down a real treat, thanks! The fruit is fantastic. Beautiful, top quality, really yummy. Thanks so much, great idea! The fruit is delicious and appreciated by everyone

Vision and Mission Statement Vision: Metal Recyclers of Choice Mission Statement: Kiwi owned recyclers, making it easy with: Passion, Professionalism, Integrity and Innovation.

Chief Operating Officer for Macaulay Metals

Last year we identified areas where we needed assistance and help in running, growing and further developing the Macaulay Metals business. As you all know we appointed a board of directors towards the end of last year to help us with direction, strategy and governance. The other area was Operations, so to tackle this challenge our Chief Operating Officer was appointed. This role assumes the overall responsibility for the direction, management and leadership of all the operational aspects of our business. Marty Roelofs took over this role in the middle of January 2012 and has been learning the ropes, visiting the yards and getting to know how our business ticks for the last few months. Marty has a varied background originating in the army, qualifying as a Trade Certified mechanic, then spanning through managerial and leadership roles in different organisations. His most recent role prior to Macaulay Metals was at Vehicle Testing New Zealand where he was the Wellington Area Manager. His role spanned the central part of New Zealand. Marty has visited all of the yards in his first month and you will no doubt see more of him over the months to come!

New Sennebogen!
A recent arrival in the Wellington yard was a new Sennebogan material handler. Turning up on a rainy day didnt deter everyone from going out to have a good look and take some pics!

Focus on a Non-Metal Supplier

Many of you have either visited our office for a pre-employment or annual health check, or seen our nurse at your work site for an annual check. Some of you may wonder what we do once the assessments have been completed and you return to work. OK Health Services are a nationwide occupational health company based in Wellington and we specialise in helping companies, such as Macaulay Metals, to keep employees healthy and safe in the workplace. Employers have obligations under the Health and Safety in Employment Act to insure that they do not harm employees and this provides the minimum requirements of what we include in assessments. Many companies, such as Macaulay Metals, do more than the minimum and enable us to help you stay fit, well, and safe.

Being in the scrap metal business, hazard management is a major part of Macaulay Metals health and safety plan. We support Macaulay Metals by providing health monitoring for those hazards which may impact on an employees health. Therefore we conduct annual tests and compare these results to your baseline (the results from your pre-employment) or to national standards. The results of the assessments indicate whether or not the hazard management plans in place are working. If they are, which is usually the case for most of our clients, its reaffirming. However, when they arent working we provide support to our customers to help improve their hazard management. While Macaulay Metals need to meet their obligations under the HSE Act, we also have to meet certain obligations including managing your medical records properly. Your complete medical records are kept secure at our site and we have strict guidelines about what information we can report to employers. Employees however can have copies of any of the assessments we have completed and we regularly provide copies or if you prefer, we send them directly to your GP if there is ever anything for you to personally follow up on e.g. hearing loss or lung function assessments. If you have any questions about the service we provide, please dont hesitate to contact us or for those of you in Petone, drop in and see us at our clinic, 0800 OK HEALTH.

Macaulay Metals health checks are beginning shortly, your Manager will let you know your date and time.

Christmas iphone Competition Winners

The end of 2011 saw another successful Christmas iphone promotion across the Group. The Plumbers seemed to have the luck of the draw this year taking 3 of the 5 prizes! Photos below of the winners receiving their new toys. TOP LEFT: Sid, a local plumber from Palmerston North with Des, Yard Manager. MIDDLE LEFT: Mark, a local plumber from Wellington with Tim, our Business Development Manager BOTTOM LEFT: Lyn, from a Wellington radiator specialist with Jeff.

TOP RIGHT: (above) Andrew, who comes from a demo company with Darrin, Rotorua Branch Manager. BOTTOM RIGHT: (above) Graeme, a local Wellington Plumber with Jeff, Managing Director.

Macaulay Metals takes on GISBORNE!

Above from Left to Right: Cody Atkins, Rob Miller, Kyra Foote, Alan Foote - Yard Manager, Dave Fretwell, - Regional Manager. Below: Rob and Cody, the two newest members of the Gisborne team.

The Gisborne yard is up and running! And after a full page spread in the Gisborne Herald on Saturday 3rd March things have got even busier. The new yard has a four person team, lead by Alan who transferred over from our Whakatane yard and they have been getting out and about to let the community know that they are there. The official opening will be on Saturday 31st March, more photos to come in the next newsletter!

Win on Facebook!
1. Getting to 50 likes on Facebook didnt seem so hard and we made it with relative ease, so we made a new target. Help us reach 100 likes on Facebook! When we hit 100 well be having another $50 voucher draw. 2. One for the STAFF! Like us on Facebook before 30th March 2012 and go into the Staff Only draw for yet another $50 voucher - its easy!

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TIMS QUIZ
Tim is Wellingtons Business Development Manager
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Macaulay Metals has a Facebook page, who created Facebook? Macaulay Metals annual health monitoring is approaching, what is the one metal we test for? Where is Macaulay Metals newest yard? Macaulay Metals sponsors a Monster Truck. What is the Monster Truck called? Macaulay Metals now has fresh fruit available to everyone! What percentage of water is in an apple? a) 40-45% b) 50-55% c) 60-65% d) 70-75% e) 80-85% How many iphones did Macaulays give away at Christmas? Who wrote and performed the song Shipping Steel? Macaulay Metals has a new Green Machine What brand is it? Answers will be in the next issue!! Tims Quiz Answers - From Issue 8, December 2011
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is the percentage of all the elements in the periodic table are metals? d) 70% There are three magnetic metals. What are they? Iron, Cobalt and Nickel Metals mixed together in exact amounts are called? Alloys Any mixture of metals that has Mercury in it has a special name. What is it? Amalgam There are three metals that would float if placed in water. What are they? Lithium, Sodium, Potassium What colour does corroded copper go? Green When steel is galvanised what is coated on the outside of it to protect it from the elements? Zinc What are the two main components of Bronze? Copper and Tin (usually) What are the Silver Surfers superhuman powers? The silver surfer wields the power cosmic, granting him superhuman strength, stamina, durability, senses and the ability to absorb and manipulate the universes ambient energy for a variety of effects. The Surfer can navigate through interstellar space, dimensional barriers and hyper space, which he can enter to exceed the speed of light when flying on his board, and has even proven capable of time travel on several occasions - even able to make others time-travel with him! Who was the lead bad guy in Die Hard with a Vengeance? One of the greatest movies ever made! Jeremy Irons

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Want to contribute? If you have an interesting story, achievement, facts, quiz or anything you want to share with the company let us know! Either pass the info to your Manager or forward to: joanne.roelofs@macaulaymetals.co.nz or Fax: 04 589 2223

Marketing Madness!
Its been all go for Macaulay Metals vehicles, especially the Monster Truck which has been visiting various locations around the North Island. Below, outside the Palmerston North yard. We also scooped up the Best Vintage Truck award at the Great Wellington Truck Show in February. A big thanks to our driver Mike who represented the company for the day at the show!