NZ Panels Group

Prime Panels
Prime Panels makes a comprehensive range of melamine, veneer, and high-pressure laminate panels for use in interior cabinetry, furniture and wall panels, doors and more. This includes the supply of matched edge tape. For benchtops, Prime Panels offers an extensive engineered stone range along with a range of high-pressure laminates which includes a Soft-Matt collection with anti-fingerprint technology. 

Bestwood
The Bestwood range includes a comprehensive range of hard-wearing melamines and a stunning range of natural veneers and its Evoake engineered oak veneer range. This includes the supply of matched edge tape. 

Dezignatek
Dezignatek provides custom-made melamine, acrylic, HPL, thermoformed and paint-ready cabinetry doors, drawers direct to the kitchen and joinery industry. It offers the biggest range of thermoform profiles and colours on the market. 

Durasein
Durasein is a solid surface acrylic range that is a more recent addition to NZ Panels Group product line-up. Favoured for both commercial and residential projects it has been relaunched with an extensive colour line-up. With the ability to be thermoformed, it offers endless creative possibilities, particularly for retail and large commercial spaces. 

Wilsonart
This globally respected brand of high-pressure laminate that sets the benchmark for durability and design leadership. Many of the designs are AEON enhanced performance technology, making them ideal for high-traffic, high-impact environments.

Mercer
Iconic NZ-made Mercer stainless steel sinks are complemented by a range of on-trend imported sinks, tapware, accessories and commercial washroom products. 

Ultraglaze
Ultraglaze acrylic panels offer the highest level of scratch resistance on the market. The hard-wearing, finger-print resistant acrylic comes in both matt and gloss finishes and is mostly used for vertical cabinetry for kitchens and bathrooms. A range of panel sizes, thicknesses and backing options cater to all market needs.

Acero
Custom stainless steel fabricated benchtops are made under the Acero brand, designed for both commercial and residential use.

We're Committed To The Environment.

NZ Panels Group is working hard to reduce its environmental impact right across the business.

In 2020 it appointed Zyran Scharf to the role of Sustainability Manager with a clear brief to reduce waste and energy usage, increase recycling, ensure supplied materials are sustainably sourced and transition the vehicle fleet to hybrid or electric vehicles.

The ultimate sustainability goal for the company is to move to be carbon-negative.

Procurement:
NZ Panels Group has a strict procurement policy where all suppliers of substrates and decorative surfaces must provide evidence of participating in an environmental programme, demonstrating commitment to energy and waste management along with established product stewardship principles. The company emphasises working with the right suppliers whose environment goals align and chooses local suppliers wherever possible.

Looking after our native forests:
NZ Panels Group takes care to ensure there is no contribution to deforestation in its supply chain. The majority of its substrates are made from sustainably sourced New Zealand radiata pine. For its native veneer panels, the company established a unique ‘Track my Tree’ verification system where customers receive a code for their veneer panels that can be entered into the Bestwood or Prime Panels websites to provide information on the logging permit, location and image of the specific tree used in that order. 

Environmental Choice New Zealand:
NZ Panels Group has Environmental Choice New Zealand (ECNZ) accreditation on all its veneer, melamine, acrylic and HPL panels, and for the solid colour range (except Light Grey Supermatt) for thermoformed doors. Kopine particleboard used for flooring and substrates also carry this globally recognised eco label.

The ECNZ tick across the company’s products indicate that products are sustainably sourced, do not contain harmful ingredients and are made with consideration for the environment in terms of energy and waste management.

This means that they can be used to provide valuable points for the achievement of a Greenstar or Homestar rating for a building.

NZ Panels Group undergoes a rigorous annual audit from ECNZ that covers its procurement, production, waste and energy management.

Waste management:
NZ Panels Group is proactive at reducing waste and is working towards a goal of recycling 100% of all recyclable material and phasing out all materials that cannot be recycled or reused.

The company educates staff around minimising waste, with reduction and reuse being prioritised and recycling being the last option. As an example, the company’s Samples team uses wastepaper from the factory to reduce the use of bubble wrap as a protective packaging filler and is aiming to phase out all plastic where possible. NZ Panels Group reuses rejected panels as coversheets and are trailing other reuse options for offcuts.