Abacus completes New Zealand project
Sutton-in-Ashfield-based Abacus Lighting has supplied a New Zealand rugby World Cup stadium with the country’s first based-hinged floodlights.
The firm installed its Challenger 1 range in the Trust Stadium Arena in Waitakere, Auckland, which will be the England rugby team’s base during next year’s World Cup.
The firm’s lighting brand is popular with sports facilities as the ground-level base hinged masts eradicate the need to drive access vehicles across the pitch leaving the ground in good condition.
Abacus’ export director John Anthony said: “New Zealand is committed to developing health and safety measures and is introducing, wherever possible, ways of making maintenance safer and easier. Our base-hinged masts not only do just that, but also offer a competitive solution since there is no need to provide expensive and ugly fixed ladders to access the masts.
“There is also no need for the repetitive hiring of expensive hydraulic platforms to gain access to a rigid structure.”
The main contractor for the project was the Fel Group, based in Auckland.
