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Water install at Gibbston Valley

It was a frosty start for Anton and Jacky on Monday down in the South Island. It was a cracker of a day that started at 0 degrees with a frosted tank. ...

Labaronne-Citaf: Flexible tanks to preserve water

Wanting to learn more about where the Flexi Tank comes from? This is a great video to watch about where our tanks are made and the craftmanship that comes of this amazing product. We are proud to be a part of this invention, making our storage capabilities, for and not limited to, horticulture, agriculture and industry that much simpler and better for the environment. ...

Remote water storage in the Marlborough Sounds

Our client down in the remote Marlborough Sounds, has boat only access to her property, with a steep 3km access track from the jetty to the batch.In August 2022 the Marlborough/Picton area had a massive rain event causing severe damage to roads and creating new slips around the area including Yvonnes. A land slip took out her secondary water supply from ram pumps, which made the decision for Yvonne to get another Flexi Tank to help increase her storage, future proofing her property.With more vol...

CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF FLEXI TANKS IN NEW ZEALAND!

Anton Meier has been in dairy farming for most of his life. He knows what it's like to run an efficient dairy operation and all the stress that comes with it: milk production, grazing plans, herd management, staff training and admin paperwork (just to name a few)! So, even though it had been a few years since he'd hung up his last set of cups, he was fully aware of the regulations that were coming for New Zealand dairy farmers in relation to their effluent storage. When he heard about a product...

Ecogas Reporoa opens its first organics processing facility with the help of Flexi Tanks NZ

Flexi Tanks NZ is proud to be a key player in this state-of-the-art, clean energy plant that is powered by food waste from businesses and kerbside food/scrap collections from the Waikato and Auckland areas. It marks a significant step in the right direction towards achieving a more sustainable future for New Zealand.Below is an extract from an article published in the Waterford Press this week:"As a key supplier to the new Ecogas organics processing facility at Reporoa, Flexi Tanks New Zealand i...

Grower2Grower golf day

On Friday the 16th of September 2022, we were lucky enough to participate in the first ever Grower2Grower golf day which was organised to bring the growing community together and raise money for the Cancer Society. Anton (director), Jacky (operations manager) and Andre (general manager) set off bright and early for Pukekohe to prep the welcome breakfast we sponsored for the day. Anton and Andre were on the BBQ tools while Jacky and family friend Dan, hit the golf green....

Top South Farming Feature

Top South Farming monthly recently did an article on Flexi Tanks NZ. This article features a 160,000L Flexible Water Tank at Titoki Nursery in Brightwell. Tim Le Gros from Titoki Nursery says "although their Flexi-tank bladder is only 160,000 litres, the system works well as they are constantly drawing off water to water plants, allowing it to re-fill. It’s also there for summer, when ideally we would keep it full in case water restrictions are imposed"....

Punctured Flexi Tank = No Problem

A common question we get asked is if the material used to make our tanks is easily pierced or punctured.  The material used is manufactured from multi layered rip-stop technical fabric with tensile strength of 450kg per 5 square cm, therefore it is not easily pierced or punctured but...accidents can happen.  We recently got called to a punctured tank at a customer’s property where their 500m3 tank had accidentally been punctured a few hours earlier.  The customer had stuffed so...

Geo40 - Silica Extraction

It has been nearly a year since Flexi Tanks NZ began working with Geo40 on their silica extraction project.  We supplied and installed a 200m3 (200,000L) Flexible Tank to help with their onsite storage and their silica extraction process.  The tank works well and this particular flexi tank is grey so it fits well visually onsite and blends into the surrounding infrastructure.   Geo40 is the first company in the world to sustainably recover high-quality, low-carbon, nano-parti...

Transmission Tower Tanks!

Cake Commercial Services has been a customer of Flexi Tanks NZ since 2021 and has purchased a number of smaller 5m3 flexible water bladders for  use in their transmission tower refurbishments. They were previously using tanks which required additional security and were more difficult to relocate to different sites.  They were recommended Flexi Tanks water bladders so have been trialling them for durability and ease of relocation at numerous sites around the North Island.  The fee...

Real Heartland 2021

Real Heartland Hawkes Bay recently did a feature on Flexi Tanks NZ - have a read and see how easy and effective our Flexi Bladders are to install and the versatility they provide to many different industries from dairy farmers to horticulturists.   Real Heartland 2021 Article...

Running on a Flexi Tank

Recently one of our customers, Grant Boyde, was interviewed by Ross Nolly for an article in the Dairy Farmer October 2021 publication. Grant has a 300m3 Flexible Effluent Tank installed at his 65 hectare farm in Taranaki. When Grant and Anissa Boyde’s effluent consent was coming up for renewal they realised that time had come for an upgrade. Their current system was proving problematical to manage, especially in light of the upcoming (at the time) 190kg N/ha cap on synthetic nitrogen fertilise...

Kauri Park Project

We were very excited to be able to help out Kauri Park Nursery with some additional water storage with the installation of 2 x 1,000m3 Flexible Water Tanks.   Recently Grower 2 Grower Magazine asked Terry Wearmouth, Director of Kauri Park, for his feedback on the newly installed water storage system using Flexible Water Tanks from Flexi Tanks NZ. As expected, he was very impressed with the outcome along with the whole installation process, have a read below and see for yourself.&n...

Fieldays 2021 Best Outdoor Site Award

We were super proud to be awarded 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒊𝒕𝒆 - Under 200m2 - at this year's Fieldays awards night!!  We've certainly come a long way from our first Fieldays in 2017, where we had the smallest stand 👉 to having a big double site in 2021! A lot of time and thought went into this years site and planning around how to best showcase our Flexi Tanks and the various projects we have been involved in.  We were really pleased with how it al...

We SMASH'ed It!

Flexi Tanks’ customers Jennifer and Darren Hislop live in Little Wanganui near Karamea on the South Island’s West Coast.  In June 2020 they had their first Flexi Tank installed to store their dairy effluent.  They are members of SMASH, (Smaller Milk and Supply Herds). SMASH helps dairy farmers, particularly those with smaller operations, build a strong, sustainable future for their dairy farming operation. They achieve this by running events throughout New Zealand. These give ...

Magic Talk finds out all the facts and questions about our Flexi Tanks

Anton and Andre were guests on Magic Talk Radio's DIY Experts Program, Saturday 23rd January 2021.  They answered all the frequently asked questions people have about our Flexi Tank water storage solutions. ...

Voted one of the best in 2020!

This article 'Kaipaki Berries Endorse Flexi Tanks' from the July 2020 issue, has won the accolade of one of the best reads for 2020 in the Grower 2 Grower e-magazine  Kaipaki Berries owner Jayden Molloy talks about the journey with Flexi Tanks and why they chose a Flexi Tank for harvesting clean rain water storage ... Jayden explains "Anton had popped into the farm at Dads (Peter Molloy) one day and I was there and we had a chat. Anton explained the benefits to it and then fr...

AgFest Greymouth 13-14 November

The Flexi Tanks team are excited to be off to the Farmlands Agfest West Coast that's on this coming Friday 13th & Saturday 14th of November, at the Aerodrome in Greymouth.The Flexi Tanks team will be on Site 113.Farmlands AgFest recognises the importance of the agricultural sector on the West Coast. The purpose of the event is to give people in the rural sector the opportunity to showcase their business, to celebrate the agricultural industry and its significance to all businesses on a...

Our Biggest Water Tank

During a particularly dry summer season in 2019, this Vineyard has been forced to investigate an alternative water storage solution due to an up to 80% reduction in their allocation of boar water. Our Flexible Water Tank was the perfect solution. This is 1200m3 of water is the biggest Water Flexi Tank that we have installed so far in New Zealand! It equals 1.2million litres of water storage! Flexible Bladder Tanks are the perfect solution for your Water & Effluent Storage.Call us to find out mor...

Water Matters

This Blenheim Vineyard is leading the way in water storage for irrigation.  This is 1200m3 of water is the biggest Water Flexi Tank that we have installed so far in New Zealand! It equals 1.2million litres of water storage!...

Future-Proofing The Farm

One of our customers from Taranaki, Chris Meier was interviewed by Ross Nolly  for an interest piece in the Dairy Farmer March 2020 Publication.  Although the Taranaki District's farm effluent consent renewal is a few years away, Chris Meier's family run dairy farm began looking at options and settled on one of our Flexi Tanks.  They did their homework to find the perfect fit.   "I first saw Flexi Tanks advertised in a pamphlet and was initially a bit skeptical unti...

The Tasmanian Farming Focus Delegation

The 2019 Effluent & Environmental Expo finished Wednesday 20th November 2019.  It was a huge success with over 4,000 visitors.Visitors came from all over the country and even Australia! Our Flexi Tank team met these awesome visitors from the Tasmanian Farming Focus Delegation.Rob (far left) from Waikato Milking Systems is one of our distributors and organised for our team to take them to visit a farm with one of our 300m3 Flexi Tanks.They were all very surprised whe...

Keeping Up With Technology

Ngatea dairy farmer Ken Jones is 88 years of age and a lot has changed since he began farming 66 years ago.  His effluent disposal was a square mouthed shovel throwing the cattle pats over the rail from the cow shed, but now we've got to the stage where we've got sprinklers sprinkling it on the farm. Ken has recently installed 2 Flexi Tank Effluent Bladder Tanks, one on each of his farms, as well as implementing other technology, like a weather station, into his farming practices in order t...

Going Green with Green Park Landfill

We recently rolled out a 1000m3 Flexi Tank for Green Park Landfill over in Tauranga. They needed a solution to collect and store the leachate that comes out of the landfill site so it can be managed according to the local council regulations, so a Flexi Tank was a perfect option. It's great to see steps being taken to protect our land and waterways. Our Flexi Tanks are a perfect solution to store most liquid storage.  Give us a call today to discuss your options 07 829 5940 ...

Welcome All About Water - Marlborough

Welcome to Phil Broughton our newest distributor in the Blenheim – Marlborough area.  Phil owns All About Water. It has certainly been a hot dry summer and in the Marlborough region the situation has turned "desperate" after an irrigation scheme serving 4500 hectares of land was shut off more than a month ago. So as you can imagine, Phil has been busy sorting water solutions for farmers in desperate need of this precious resource.   Because of the desperate water ...