Brief & sizing
WhatsApp conversation about the site, the feed material, the target throughput and the mobility you need. We sketch capacity and an indicative price within the day.
1–3 daysOne workshop. Two countries. Four decades.
Gold Screens NZ Engineering began on the South Island in the early 1980s, when small alluvial mining operations needed plant they could move themselves — without waiting weeks for a contractor crane and a low-loader from Christchurch. The first trommels were built for the Westland claims; the brief from the operators was identical to the brief we still get from operators today. Make it mobile. Make it survive. Don't make me read a manual.
Over the following two decades the workshop's centre of gravity moved north. The alluvial gold belts of Southeast Asia — Kalimantan, Sulawesi, the rivers of Laos, the gold belts of northern Thailand — were drawing operators who wanted plant designed for tropical humidity, thick overburden, and roads that disappear in the wet season. We followed the work. The current manufacturing facility, in Rayong on the eastern Gulf coast of Thailand, has been our home for the last two decades.
The track-mounted line — the one no one else in the world builds — came out of a specific frustration. A client in Papua New Guinea had taken delivery of a perfectly capable trailer-mounted plant, then spent the next six months unable to use it because the road to the dig face had washed out. We took the plant back, put it on excavator-class crawler tracks, and shipped it again. It drove itself to the pit. We have not stopped building them on tracks since.
Today the workshop runs as one team across design, fabrication, hydraulics, and commissioning. There are no agents in any of our countries. There are no distributors. The engineer who answers a WhatsApp message on a Tuesday afternoon is the same one who will lay your screen out on Friday, check your weld on Monday, and ride to the airport with you when the plant lands at site.
