FARRA Stainless has built its reputation in the stainless steel fabrication on the back of the Food and Beverage and Dairy industry and over recent times has emerged as a leading manufacturer for all stainless requirements.

We have become a highly regarded manufacturer relying on our dedicated employees to design and engineer, using the latest manufacturing techniques, backed by high quality products and top level QA systems.

FARRA Stainless are specialists in the fabrication of high quality engineering products to meet specific client requirements.

The stainless steel shop is divided up to cater for light and heavy fabrication, allowing the development of specialised skills and techniques. Consequently we can handle fabrication from the lightest sheet up to 20mm plate. A comprehensive range of stainless materials is stocked to service the immediate needs of our clients.

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The work undertaken includes a wide range of fabrications from 135,000 litre silos to conveyers, brewery tanks, coded vessels through to detailed architectural work. Our ability to supply a vast and diverse range of industries has given us the ability to adapt and provide superior innovative manufacturing solutions.

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For Contractors who wish to go onto the workshop floors at Farra, please undertake the self induction by reading the attached Contractor Induction information. This provides a brief overview of the company and of each of the divisions, and identifies the key hazards found in each. As an on site Contractor you will be periodically assessed on your work practices to ensure hazards are recognized and reduced as much as possible.

Welcome

Farra is an integrated engineering company that provides efficient and competitive engineering solutions to our wide range of local and international customers. Our strength lies in our experience, our breadth of operations and the management skills we bring to each.

Farra split into separate trading divisions in the 1990s to provide clarity of purpose, clear accountability along with an overhead structure suitable to each. All divisions are assisted by a small head office team that provides complimentary administrative, management and financial support.

Initially there were five divisions but this has now grown to seven as the benefits of specialisation have become apparent and as our operations have expanded. Each operates with their own manager, their own specialised tradesman, their own plant; and each operates from their own premises. Even though your job may move through a number of our divisions, you will be dealing only with the manager with whom you initiated the job.

Customers don’t care about how a company is structured, though they quite rightly care about their job. The specialisation of the division enables particular skills to be developed and maintained, weather it is those necessary for the fabrication of micro breweries, or the refurbishment of turbines for the hydro power industry. With such specialisation comes efficiency and quality; that’s the customer benefit.

And the breadth of our divisions means those benefits can accumulate over a number of trades and a number of operations for the more complex jobs. When required, the integration of the skills and machinery available means we can offer the complete engineering solution. That too is the customer benefit.

The Otago gold rush of the 1860s was the major impetus for Dunedin becoming at that time the major financial centre of New Zealand. That and the opportunities offered by the “new world” saw the establishment of three engineering companies that would over time merge to become the Farra Engineering that we know today. Those three founding companies were Farra Bros (1863), Dunedin Engineering (1868) and Otago Iron Rolling Mills (1886).

The three companies’ history tracks the European economic history of New Zealand, from the gold rush days to the First World War when we had three ships plying routes in the Pacific sourcing iron ore scrap. We weathered the depression of the 1930s, took advantage of another wartime economy in the 1940s and built cranes for the “think big” projects of the 1970s. We restructured to survive the following economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and today we are a modern and diverse engineering company with a national and international focus, proud of our achievements and proud of our past.

140 years on, the descendants of those founding families of the 19th Century are still today the major shareholders of this privately owned company.

The Otago gold rush of the 1860s was the major impetus for Dunedin becoming at that time the major financial centre of New Zealand. That and the opportunities offered by the “new world” saw the establishment of three engineering companies that would over time merge to become the Farra Engineering that we know today. Those three founding companies were Farra Bros (1863), Dunedin Engineering (1868) and Otago Iron Rolling Mills (1886).

The three companies’ history tracks the European economic history of New Zealand, from the gold rush days to the First World War when we had three ships plying routes in the Pacific sourcing iron ore scrap. We weathered the depression of the 1930s, took advantage of another wartime economy in the 1940s and built cranes for the “think big” projects of the 1970s. We restructured to survive the following economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and today we are a modern and diverse engineering company with a national and international focus, proud of our achievements and proud of our past.

140 years on, the descendants of those founding families of the 19th Century are still today the major shareholders of this privately owned company.