Skyline Adventures’ spectacular 900m gondola ascent above Rotorua   An NFC-enabled hydraulic hose management system typically applied to hard-working industrial, mining, and primary industry machinery has comprehensively proved its worth in use in one of New Zealand’s most spectacular tourist attractions.

For the first time in history, New Zealand has a dedicated certification for fluid power engineering, providing new training and career path options to those in the hydraulics and pneumatics industries.

A partnership between experts in complementary fields of engineering and services has helped produce a Kiwi-made hydro excavator designed to be among the most advanced, reliable, and operator-friendly of its type in the world.