August 19, 2026
On Tuesday, 26 and Wednesday, 27 May 2026, Carr New Zealand exhibited at the Carbon and Energy Professionals Conference in Hamilton, an event marking its 25th year.
Matt Allan represented us across the two days, joined by Clinton van Zyl from Leister in Switzerland. The conference brings together people working on decarbonising manufacturing and improving energy efficiency in industrial settings, and the programme mixed workshops with exhibition space for New Zealand companies working in this area.
Our involvement grew out of Foodtech Packtech in 2025, where we displayed a gas-fired coffee roaster we had converted to run on hot air using a full suite of Leister technology. That project showed what is possible when a process is rethought rather than simply re-fuelled, and Hamilton was the natural place to continue the conversation.
Alongside Leister’s igniters for biomass boilers, hot air heaters, blowers, and control components, we used the conference to introduce Krelus infrared heaters. Krelus units emit in the medium wave range, around three microns, which is the band most readily absorbed by plastics, paper, wood, and water. Their metal foil emitters reach full output within seconds and cool just as quickly, so a line can be switched off during short production breaks instead of idling. For manufacturers weighing up alternatives to gas, that combination of fast response and lower power draw is worth a close look.
What makes this practical is the engineering behind it. Carr New Zealand can call on Leister’s engineers to design and build a heater array matched to a specific process, delivered integrated into the machine and close to plug and play. Two days of conversations with decision makers, energy specialists, and other renewable solution providers gave us a much clearer picture of where New Zealand industry is heading — and where we can genuinely help.
