Our values
Integrity
We keep you informed of what you need to know. We like sharing good news, but bad news ‘needs to travel fast’ for the sake of improving outcomes for your project.
Safety
Our systems and behaviors do nothing to compromise it. The safety of all people involved is paramount. SiteWise 100% backs up the quality of the systems we use.
Teamwork
We have a process to ensure we’re all talking and understanding each other. We view our clients as an extension of our HML team.
Customer satisfaction
When HML is finished you will have high quality structural steel on your project.
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We are proud of our apprenticeship training activities. We currently have three men at varying stages of completion and many more who have attained their formal trade qualifications with HML.
We are pleased to be financial supporters of the great work that the St John team do in our community.
At HML we partner with Marlborough Boys' College to promote one day a week workplace training opportunities for interested students. Many have completed schooling and then joined us fulltime, and several have gone on to complete apprenticeships.
We demonstrate our commitment to sustainability by recycling all scrap steel, plastic and cardboard. Plus, we've converted to lower power LED lighting throughout our production and office areas.
HML has chosen an electricity provider that utilises 100% renewable generation. More recently we have partnered with an overall supplier that has a strong focus on sustainability through wood pellet fired boiler, electric vehicles and low water use. We actively seek sustainably minded suppliers.
Health and Safety
Safety is always a focus for the team, from the top down. Care of our people, and those we come in to contact with, is important to us.
We make significant annual investments in the training budget and team time to manage our risks and monitor and maintain the health of our team. We’re systemised in our approach but with plenty of people input from those that ‘do it’.
We’re proud of our safety record and are chuffed to have repeatedly achieved 100% in Site Wise process assessments.
The canopy on the ute is an early Hamilton's Tractor Services manufactured item.
11-13 Opawa Street from the air in 1988.
Our History
Timeline of HML’s history
1983
HML Engineering’s founder Steve Hamilton starts SM Hamilton as an earth moving contractor 2 years after leaving school.
1992
1999
Steve bought out Fairweather Engineering, a Blenheim based engineering business founded in 1879. This required increase in staff numbers and a shift in to the general engineering and structural steel fields. Taking over Fairweather’s larger workshop next door at 11-13 Opawa Street.
1999-2006
The team continued to expand and eventually outgrew the in town location.
2006
Hamilton’s Machinery Limited is incorporated & expands to new site at 432 Rapaura Road, Blenheim. 2,250m2 of workshop plus 12,000m2 of yard space allows for the expansion the business is going through.
2010
Hamilton’s Machinery Limited starts trading as HML Engineering while working in Christchurch to help rebuild following the Canterbury earthquakes.
2014 - 2015
There was significant expansion in to the lower North Island with numerous seismic and new builds undertaken.
2016
HML Engineering start onsite at Grey Base Hospital in Greymouth. A project of 910 tonnes of structural steel.
2020
We engage in another hospital project, this time in Wellington (750 tonnes) and find that our effcient control of logistics, reputation for quality and experince in managing remote work has us completing a significant portion of our work successfully in the lower North Island.
2022
The positive team culture, high team retention rate and active recruiting place us well in a market where labour is constrained. A blast and paint area was also commissioned during the year, as well as updates to the Logistics fleet.
2023
Two new apprentices start, and we commence on several large scale projects in the Marlborough region with the Workshop team working at near full capacity. The decision to establish the paint facility provides benefits in quality and timeliness, plus contributing to a significant saving in emissions from reduced freight movements.
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