Company Profile

The Facts

John Jones Steel is a well-established company known throughout New Zealand for its proven ability to successfully undertake structural steel fabrication projects of any magnitude.

Its a modern and well-equipped Christchurch workshop extends to more than 4,900 m2 in a series of adjoining high-stud buildings, providing covered facilities for every stage of the fabrication and finishing process.

An in-house drawing office handles all workshop plans and quantity surveying functions, contributing to a very high level of overall efficiency. The retention of large stocks of typical structural steel profiles and sizes in the workshop minimises delays and again results in great efficiency of operation. Seven overhead workshop cranes, a maximum hook height of six metres and a railway linking all workshop bays keep work and stock flowing steadily at all times.

Continual reinvestment in the best workshop, delivery and on-site plant keeps John Jones Steel at the forefront of current practice in the structural steel industry. A new full-recovery shot blasting booth measuring 13 x 4.5 x 3.5 metres will soon be followed by an automated sectional shot blaster.

A staff of fifty is almost evenly divided between the workshop and the site locations, providing the flexibility and backup required to work co-operatively and effectively with other contractors on-site.

Cherry pickers and working platform trucks with a 10 metre reach ensure compliance with all existing legislative requirements regarding industrial safety and contribute to an impeccable work safety record.

With thirty years of experience in the structural steel industry in New Zealand John Jones Steel has built an enviable reputation for commitment to its clients and to the industry, for competitive pricing, quality of workmanship and unflagging reliability. The company is affiliated to the SCI-NZ with Managing Director Frank Van Schaijik being a founding member. These many factors combine to ensure John Jones Steel Ltd.'s successful involvement in the majority of structural steel projects undertaken in Canterbury and in larger projects throughout the South Island. Whatever your project, big or small, it can be entrusted to John Jones Steel with total confidence.

History

John Jones Steel was established in a small Sydenham workshop in 1964 by W.J.M. & M.B.C. Van Schaijik. The company soon prospered and in 1972 erected a 2500 m2 building on its present Falsgrave Street site.

Large steel sections were hard to obtain in New Zealand at that time and this led the directors to begin indenting their own steel shipments through merchants and carrying significant stocks of the typical sizes needed in their work. This proved a very efficient way to operate and has become a distinguishing feature of the company, ensuring delays are eliminated wherever possible. Stocks held today average 600 tons at any given time.

Additions in 1979, 1994 and 1996 have taken the building to its present size of 4903 m2 and make it possible to carry out every stage of the fabrication and finishing processes, for all work, under one roof.