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Welcome to Bridon NZ Ltd,  trading as “Cookes” New Plymouth.

We are one of thirteen branches throughout New Zealand, with our Head Office in Auckland.  We came out from the UK to New Zealand in 1911 as part of British Ropes from Doncaster, England. Our New Plymouth branch was established in 1987 in the central city.

With major growth in the petrochemical and offshore oil and gas industries we relocated to our new building at Corbett Rd Bell Block in February of 2005.

As a major supplier to the oil, gas and engineering industry for services and equipment we have expanded well and in December of 2006 we installed the largest test bed in New Zealand with 180,000kg  testing capacity by 75ft  and  three months later we added a new 650,000kg Wirop Press. 

We supply most major industries throughout New Zealand; Logging, Sawmills, Forestry, Pulp Mills, Steel Mills, Agricultural, Avaition, Fishing, Drilling, Dairy, Railways, Energy, OEM Manufactures, Farming, Crane, Shipping, Ports, Earthmoving, Quarry, Construction, Mining, Roofing, Building & Scaffolding, Road Transport and Motorway Safety with services and products. We also supply on-site testing with our 40,000kg capacity mobile testing truck.

We are New Zealand’s only wire rope manufacturer with sizes from 1.5mm to 60mm and the largest stockist of material handling & rigging equipment.

As part of the FKI and Bridon Group of company’s we are manufacturers, agents and suppliers of some of the best brands available throughout the world including; Blue Strand, Crosby USA, Parsons Kuplex, Casar, Gates, Marlow Hawsers,  DSR Ropes, Manuli, Weissenfel, Roflex,  Rud, Van Beest, Kito, Wirop, AG-Quip, GF, ESCO, Blueline, Wearalloy, C&R, PWB Anchor, Petzl, Suncor, PH Stainless, Hercalloy, Titan, Spanset and Yoke etc...

As a Telarc ISO9001:2000 registered company we have Quality Procedures and Health, Safety & Environmental policies in place to ensure we will exceed your expectations and level of service.

Thank you for visiting our website, please feel free to contact our sales department with any inquiries or information you may require........

 




NZ Oil & Gas Conference in New Plymouth on the 9th & 10th of September 2009.

Please click on the image below form more information on this upcoming event.

Please click on the image below to view Cookes' web page on the Offshore Technology Web Site.

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Over the years the word "BRIDON" has been equated with quality, expertise, innovation and excellence. In an ongoing effort to maintain the highest technical standards and levels of customer satisfaction, the Bridon Group serves it's customer base from 7 manufacturing sites strategically located around the world, offering cost efficient scale economy solutions, differentiated products and services with competitive local responses to quotations and after sales enquiries.
BRIDON's manufacturing sites are located in the UK (4 sites) , Germany, Indonesia, the USA and Cookes right here in New Zealand.
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Cookes own inhouse manufactured high quality steel wire rope.
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German manufactured multi-strand high tensile crane ropes.
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The world's foremost manufacturer of quality Lifting Equipment based in the USA.
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Grade 10 Lifting Chain & Components from Parsons Chain Co. in the UK.
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Grade 80 Lifting & Trawl chain manufactured in Italy.

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The world's finest G10
Lifting & Lashing Fittings
manufactured in Germany.

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Australasia's premier Chain manufacturer.
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Taiwan's leading manufacturer of high quality Grade 8 Chain components.
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Quality "Green Pin" Shackles & Lifting Equipment manufactured in Holland.
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Japanese engineered chain hoists & lever hoists.
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Quality Chain Block & Lever Hoists you can trust.
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Australasia's leading manufacturer & supplier of quality Height Safety Equipment.

No other lifting equipment distributor in New Zealand can offer you this range of quality products from the world's leading manufacturers.

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