Dear Customers,

Please be aware that OHUG Power Equipment will be closed from 12pm on the 

, to allow our staff a much-needed break at the end of this crazy year.

As always, if you have a genuine urgent enquiry or need for a product, please give us a call, and one of the OHUG Team will assist you as soon as possible.

Have a safe and merry holiday period - we'll be in touch next year!

All the best,


OHUG Power Equipment Christmas Holidays 2020-2021

"UNWIND WITH OTAPE AND WIN 1 OF 2 TRIPS TO QUEENSTOWN" COMPETITION POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 2021



OHUG Power Equipment have elected to postpone the drawing of the "Unwind with OTAPE and Win 1 of 2 Trips to Queenstown" competition until December 2021.

Due to many events from the 2020 CONZTRUCT Series being delayed or postponed, it is more fair to wait until the completion of the 2021 Series before drawing a winner.

All current entries will stay completely valid for the 2021 drawing - however, this will give you more opportunities to enter the competition (both online AND at your next CONZTRUCT event) before the new drawing date.

If you haven't already entered online, please do so 

 - the entry form can be found at the bottom of our OHUG Home Page.  As for paper entries... we'll see you at CONZTRUCT 2021!

Wishing you all happy holidays and a prosperous New Year,


IMPORTANT UPDATE: Trip to Queenstown Competition Postponed

40 years ago, 3M Scientist Art Fry invented the revolutionary stationery product that nobody ever knew they needed - until they did.

On the choir loft at his church, Art Fry was warming his vocal cords.  He tried to turn the page of his book and his bookmark fell out of its place to the floor.  Frustrated, Fry thought about an adhesive that a 3M colleague, Spence Silver, discovered five years earlier.  Could he apply the adhesive to the bookmark to prevent such a mishap?  The next day, Fry coated the edge of the paper with the adhesive to create a better bookmark.  As Fry experimented, he found himself using the “sticky bookmarks” to write messages to his boss.

That was the heart of the idea. It wasn’t a bookmark, but a note.

Silver’s adhesive made paper adhere to various surfaces but wasn’t so sticky that it would damage those surfaces when it was pulled off.  Fry encountered technical problems, and it wouldn’t be until 1980 (12 patient years later) that Fry successfully tested, trialed and launched the blockbuster idea - Post-it® Notes.  Since then, the product range has evolved radically, changing how people communicate and organise themselves, forever.

A Brief History of the Post-It Note - 3M History

16 September 2020 – Australian switchgear engineering company NOJA Power celebrate their win in the Queensland division of the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards conducted by Engineers Australia.  NOJA Power’s entry of their Synchrophasor project with partners AusNet Services, Energy Queensland, the University of Queensland, Deakin University and AEMO supported by ARENA demonstrates a true collaboration in developing, deploying and commercially maturing technology to drive a sustainable energy future for Australia and the world.

“Congratulations to our entire team for the duly earned recognition the award and acknowledgement by Engineers Australia conveys,” reported NOJA Power Group Managing Director Neil O’Sullivan.

The Synchrophasor project is the world’s first large-scale deployment of Synchrophasor technology in the distribution grid.  This technology is enabled by big-data management techniques pioneered by IT in the last decade, providing electricity distribution network data visibility orders of magnitude greater than older technology.  This high-resolution network data helps utilities to develop protection, control and automation for the modern distribution grid, making the grid safer and more reliable under high levels of renewable energy generation.

Other finalists in the Queensland division include the Cedar Grove wastewater treatment plant, 25 King Brisbane by Aurecon and the Surf Lakes project in Yeppoon Qld.  For more information, contact your local NOJA Power distributor (OHUG Power Equipment).

NOJA Power Wins an Australian Engineering Excellence Award in Queensland

First New Zealand Installation of a NOJA Power RC10-200 Successfully Commissioned

Deploying New Features into Classic Switchgear



27 February 2018 – In a valley overlooking a bay on the North Island of New Zealand, NOJA Power confirm the successful commissioning of the first New Zealand installation of a NOJA Power RC10-200 Upgrade Kit. The RC10-200 system is a conversion upgrade path for NOJA Power’s Legacy RC01 controlled OSM Recloser product, providing utilities with the ability to deploy the comprehensive modern suite of protection functionality whilst maintaining use of their primary switchgear investment.

Driven by rapid processes of innovation within the technology space, utility trends are growing to expect that whilst primary switchgear may last many years, control technology can struggle to keep up. Fundamentally, primary switchgear such as a Recloser can be reasonably expected to serve a full 30-year life, whilst observing the evolution of control systems can be starkly demonstrated by the difference between a 1980s computer and a modern smartphone - miraculous when observed in isolation. The RC10-200 upgrade path is a replacement of the control system, allowing utilities to maximise the return on investment in primary assets and essentially eliminating the High Voltage work required in a switchgear site upgrade.

NOJA Power’s RC10-200 upgrade kit is packaged as a simple adaptor connected to one of the company's flagship control systems, providing a quick and simple interchange to upgrade the control technology connected to the OSM Recloser at the top of the pole. The option is provided to use the existing control cable, which removes all need for HV electrical work on site. The alternative is a replacement control cable with an interchange system to allow communication between the new generation of controllers with the old generation of Reclosers. All OSM Reclosers of the RC01 control generation are upgradeable using either of these pathways.

“In general discussion with senior executives in electricity utilities globally there is a generally accepted opinion that primary switchgear plant like a recloser circuit breaker tank should have a 30 year pole life,” says NOJA Power Group Managing Director Neil O’Sullivan, “but the integral electronic controller cannot reasonably be expected to last more than 10 years and allow the utility to continue to achieve their smart grid objectives. By providing the RC10 200 Series upgrade our electricity utility customers can get a longer life out of the primary plant circuit breakers tanks and continue to achieve their smart grid objectives by the upgraded functionality available in the RC10 and RC15 controls.”

NOJA Power are dedicated to developing new products to solve the distribution challenges, and the upgrade path for older generation controllers to the RC10 or RC15 controllers provides a wealth of new technology to utilities solving modern distribution challenges. To learn more about the NOJA Power RC controllers or upgrading your fleet of NOJA Power Reclosers, get in contact at 



Image: Converter Option for RC10-200 Connections using existing cables, showing weatherproof case

Pukekohe-based company, OHUG Power Equipment Limited has placed prominently in this year’s Deloitte Fast 50 index - as one of New Zealand’s fastest growing companies.

With sustained growth of 389.56% (over the three year period surveyed, from 08 -10) the overhead and underground power equipment supplier placed 19th on the index of New Zealand’s 50 fastest growing companies and 5th for entrants from the Auckland region.

The 2010 Deloitte Fast 50 index was announced recently at five simultaneous events held in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington Christchurch and Dunedin. A Deloitte initiative, the index operates in 32 countries or regions around the world and has been celebrating business growth in New Zealand since 2001.

Deloitte partner and national leader of the Fast 50 programme, Matt McKendry, says this year’s index has proved yet again that successful businesses make the Fast 50 index because they do the basics extremely well. “We’ve identified over the 10 years of the Deloitte Fast 50 that the most successful companies are those which remain firmly focused on the business strategy and vision and what they need to do to achieve it, without being distracted by external factors. What powers a good idea or exciting new product into a million dollar enterprise can actually be quite prosaic. There are certain things businesses have to get right. It’s not always sexy but consistent growth, even through recession, comes from paying attention to basic principles”, he said.

Entries to the index are compiled through a combination of Deloitte research, public nominations, and businesses stepping up to be benchmarked. Businesses that choose to enter and meet the entry criteria are then ranked according to their percentage revenue growth. To make the 2010 index, companies had to achieve revenue growth rates of at least 161%. The 50 businesses with the highest percentage growth make up the Deloitte Fast 50 index, which has become a barometer of successful, innovative businesses across the country.Topping the index for 2010 was Wellington-based technology finance business, Telecom Rentals, with 1,897% growth. Other prominent brands to have featured in the Deloitte Fast 50 index over the years have included Kiwibank, 42 Below (winner 2005) Fishpond, Ezi-Pay, Orcon and Trade Me (winner 2004).

OHUG Power Equipment was established in 2007 and has quickly broken into a monopoly market with its high quality overhead and underground power equipment. Last year, OHUG was awarded Best Emerging Business at the Business Excellence Awards promoted and run by Enterprise Franklin Development Trust and Papakura’s District Council.

According to OHUG Director, Nan Russell, “We’re thrilled to be recognised as one of New Zealand’s fastest growing companies. Our focus has always been on sourcing the most innovative and trusted overhead and underground power equipment available worldwide and to provide our customers with a level of service second to none. It’s nice to see our hard work and resilience recognised in this way”.


Image: Left to right - OHUG Power Equipment directors, Nan Russell & Steve Rigby with Deloitte partner, Matt McKendry.

OHUG places 19th in Deloitte Fast 50 index

At the glittering black tie event, staged to celebrate the 2009 Stevenson Business Excellence Awards last week, OHUG Power Equipment Ltd won the Best Emerging Business Award.

The Business Excellence Awards, promoted and run by the Enterprise Franklin Development Trust and the Papakura District Council, are judged by an independent panel of 10 Judges and are assessed against set business criteria such as; business planning, marketing strategy, funding, leadership, management & processes and growth & profitability. Judges also conduct interviews and site visits with all Awards finalists.

Franklin Foods Best Emerging Business, the category under which OHUG was nominated and entered, was open to all businesses in the Franklin/Papakura, South Auckland district, that have been operating less than two years, as at Entry Opening date.

According to OHUG Managing Director, Steve Rigby, he and his team were thrilled to win the Award and to be recognised by the district’s business leaders and peers, as representing excellence in business practice.

“OHUG has enjoyed phenomenal growth during the last few years. That’s pretty amazing considering the state of the economy. I guess looking back, we were brave to back ourselves with a start‐up business in a recession. But we felt our offer was strong and it would appeal to the market. In the end, our success has come about through offering world class products, customer service second to none and the fact that our key suppliers and above all our clients, have encouraged and supported us”, Rigby said.



Picture: OHUG team, left to right: Michelle Rigby, Nan Russell, Steve Rigby, Tony Burtton, Tony Diment and Category Sponsor, Franklin Foods, Paul Brown show off the Best Emerging Business Award.

Here’s what’s happening in the electrical industry.

OHUG Power Equipment Christmas Holidays 2020-2021

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Trip to Queenstown Competition Postponed

A Brief History of the Post-It Note - 3M History

NOJA Power Wins an Australian Engineering Excellence Award in Queensland

First New Zealand Installation of a NOJA Power RC10-200 Successfully Commissioned

OHUG places 19th in Deloitte Fast 50 index

OHUG wins prestigious Best Emerging Business Award

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Here’s what’s happening in the electrical industry.

OHUG Power Equipment Christmas Holidays 2020-2021

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Trip to Queenstown Competition Postponed

A Brief History of the Post-It Note - 3M History

NOJA Power Wins an Australian Engineering Excellence Award in Queensland

First New Zealand Installation of a NOJA Power RC10-200 Successfully Commissioned

OHUG places 19th in Deloitte Fast 50 index

OHUG wins prestigious Best Emerging Business Award

Go in the draw to win a trip to Queenstown!

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