Carpet maker Bremworth rebuilding Napier yarn plant
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Bremworth is investing $6 million in restoring its yarn-making facilities in Napier. File photo. Photo: Bremworth Carpet maker Bremworth is rebuilding its Napier yarn plant which was destroyed in Cyclone Gabrielle , opening up 40 jobs. It had already been running a dyehouse onsite, but was now investing $6 million in restoring its yarn-making facilities. It used to employ about 150 staff at the Napier factory, but most of them lost their jobs when the floodwaters hit. For the past couple of years Bremworth has been importing yarn to bolster supplies from its Whanganui spinning plant. Bremworth chief executive Craig Woolford told Checkpoint it felt good to be coming back. "It's a great feeling. The staff they are just beyond themselves... everybody can see a really good outcome for this." The plant should be up and running by the end of October. Woolford said the hunt for staff was currently on, including re-recruiting those who lost their jobs after Cyclone Gabrielle. "We've had quite a positive response from a lot of those people. So where we've been able to, we've started that recruitment process with the people that have previously worked for us that are keen to come back." He said they had also had a great response from the wider community. "We've had a huge amount of people just turning up in the last couple of days looking for work." Cyclone Gabrielle destroyed most of the plant more than two years ago - Woolford said the damage was extensive. "There was about one and a half metres of water that went through the entire plant and you know most of our electrical equipment, all the electric motors, all completely flooded. All the machines were flooded." While the plant was shut, the company had to outsource much of their yarn making. "We've been buying it from places around the world. China, India, Pakistan, you know, all these different places, which is, you know, it got us through, but it's also come with its own issues. "The quality levels that we've got from these external providers hasn't been to the same level of quality we can manage ourselves in house." Woolford said by producing the wool in-house, they were getting better quality as well as saving on costs. "We will save between $3.50 and $5 a kilo if we do it ourselves in house." While they would love to see a higher demand for the product, Woolford said things were steady enough. "The fact that we'll be able to run two yarn plants... [24 hours a day, five days a week] shows that it's reasonably steady." He said wool carpet makes up for about 15 percent of the New Zealand and Australian soft flooring market, but with shifting demand the company was in the process of creating a synthetic carpet too. "Wool is I guess, at the higher end of carpet and a lot of people look at it and think it's a it's a big expense, and sometimes it is, so they opt for a synthetic carpet." Now three months out from reopening, Woolford said it felt great to be rebuilding, and wished they had done it sooner. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
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