By Northpine
The impressive new boardwalk parallel to the bridge at Molesworth Drive across the estuary was opened to the public in late August 2023.
It completes a very challenging mission for contractor Fulton Hogan through ‘the summer that never was’!
Watch the video below and listen to project engineer Brett Vermeulen explaining the achievement. This is the second of five phases in KDC’s plan to connect Mangawhai Village with Mangawhai Heads. Northpine supplied all the solid beams, posts and battens for the boardwalk.
Northbeam is strong stuff!
Northpine Ltd is a multi award-winning, privately-owned timber manufacturer based at Waipu, Lower Northland. Northpine was established in 1999 by Keith Reay, Richard Wilson and Bruce Larsen from the rundown assets of the defunct Waipu Timber Company.
Northpine timber products come only from sustainably managed, high density Northern pine forests – because reliable academic research shows that pine grown in the North is stronger, harder and stiffer than anywhere else in New Zealand.