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IXOM New Zealand’s Stop & Think Event

In mid June, our IXOM New Zealand team hosted Stop and Think, an event where we get as many people from across our New Zealand business together and take some time to focus on safety, how we think about it and how we work together to achieve good safety outcomes.

We also focus on building an understanding of what day-to-day life is like for our colleagues across the business by creating a series of activities that put our people in each other’s shoes and experience the intricacies and complexities of their roles.

By spending time with each other and creating this shared understanding, we can further enhance our safety and effectiveness for the benefit of ourselves, our teammates and our customers.

Congratulations to New Zealand's Best Tasting Tap Water

Congratulations to InfraCore Rotorua Lakes Council’s Karamu Takina Spring, officially named New Zealand’s best tasting tap water for 2024 in the IXOM National Water Taste Test.

In the ultimate showdown, New Zealand’s sample went on to compete against Australia’s top drop in the inaugural IXOM Trans-Tasman Water Taste Test, but we’re no closer to ending the rivalry with the sample from Tasmania’s TasWater Fern Tree water treatment plant judged equally delicious!

Water samples are subjected to a blind taste test and rated according to the ‘Water Tasting Wheel’. The Wheel outlines some of the attributes water professionals use when assessing water such as colour, clarity, odour and taste.

The IXOM National Water Taste Test is a fun way to raise awareness of the quality of drinking water in New Zealand, and to recognise the efforts of local water operators and their teams to deliver valuable water services to their communities.

IXOM is proud to supply water treatment chemicals to plants all across Australia and New Zealand to help ensure communities continue to have world-class, high-quality water. To learn how we can help you, visit www.ixom.com/c/water

Sustainability Project Win-Win

We’re celebrating another great achievement this week – a project that has created a WIN-WIN for our customers by enabling neutral-cost teal drum recycling, resulting in a positive sustainability outcome for the community.

IXOM New Zealand purchases more than 6000 new 200L teal drums each year, with over 2000 are delivered to our Timaru plant. Back in August 2023, with support from our NZ Business Managers, the team started investigating how we might be able to collect, wash and re-use teal drums across the South Island.

Our project team found a partner to work with, and undertook vigorous quality testing to review and approve the sampled recycled drums at our IXOM Timaru site, before launching a test delivery with selected customers. Following successful testing, IXOM Timaru approved the use of recycled teal drums for all sodium hypochlorite drums.

Since January, more than 500 drums have been collected and recycled across the South Island 👏👏

This has been an incredible effort by the project team, who are now aiming to expand the collection of IXOM teal drums in June 2024.

A huge thank you to all involved!

Celebrating World Day for Safety & Health at Work

Sunday 28th April is World Day for Safety and Health at Work, and as one of Australia’s leading chemical manufacture and distribution businesses, we strive to be at the forefront of making our industry safer.

Safety is embedded in the way we work, from sourcing and manufacturing, to bulk transport and customer delivery. We promote safety as the presence of capacity, not just the absence of accidents or mistakes.

David Schelbach, our Chief Officer Safety, Health and Environment says, “Safety is about having the capacity to succeed under varying conditions. At IXOM we are proud of or safety record, and our goal is always to ensure that our people are set up for success, today and for the future."

Today and every day, we want our people to be protected both physically and mentally, and we thank all our team, suppliers and partners for working with us to always ensure a safe environment at work, at home, and in the community.

IXOM’s Emergency Response Service

Did you know IXOM’s dedicated Emergency Response Service (ERS) team operates 24/7 and has over 40 years of experience?

We pride ourselves on our ability to provide invaluable assistance in managing incidents and emergencies. Over the years, we’ve responded to over 50,000 separate incidents and assisted our clients ensure the safety of their employees, customers, and members of the public. Each of these incidents has a report compiled and the magnitude and breadth of incident means we have a comprehensive understanding of appropriate responses to emergency scenarios.

We understand both reactive and proactive approaches are required, and so we use our experience to educate and support those handling hazards to ensure effective emergency response plans and mitigation strategies as well.

From hazardous chemical training to risk management and auditing, get in touch today to learn how we can work with you to improve safety, competency and to help solve any challenge you might be facing.

Visit this page to learn more.

New Partnership: RLSWA Pools Program

Swimming pools are valuable assets that bring about positive change in people’s lives and strengthen overall community wellbeing, and we couldn’t be more proud to be a partner of the Royal Life Saving - Western Australia's Remote Aboriginal Pools Program.

Royal Life Saving WA established the Remote Pools project in 1999 to deliver a range of swimming and water programs to empower remote Aboriginal communities and promote sustainable change, including:

🔹 Improved swimming and water safety skills
🔹 Improved school attendance
🔹 Improved health and wellbeing
🔹 Better connection to country
🔹 Stronger family and community connection
🔹 Greater self-determination and autonomy

We look forward to continuing to support Royal Life Saving WA and the Remote Pools project for many years to come, and a huge thank you to our team who have championed this project internally over the years!

Accelerating Our Digital Transformation Journey

IXOM is delighted to announce that we are partnering with CiGen to accelerate our digital transformation journey.

The partnership comes as IXOM continues to invest in digital excellence, supporting our position as a global leader in water and chemicals management.

CiGen is a leading provider of digital automation and AI-driven solutions. We’ve selected CiGen as our primary partner to implement UiPath's cutting-edge Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology due to their implementation expertise and collaborative approach.

By co-developing the UiPath RPA solution, CiGen and IXOM will enhance operational efficiency, streamline processes, and drive innovation across our business.

The implementation of this technology is an important strategic milestone for IXOM. CiGen’s comprehensive solutions will help us harness the potential of AI-driven systems to reduce manual processing effort, allowing us to concentrate on our core purpose of solving customers’ challenges.

We’re thrilled to have taken this step to drive transformative change and create value.