Yearly Archives: 2017

FONKO is about to start world on the new NEW WORLD Feilding store which is due to open in early to mid 2018.  This will be the first project in New Zealand where FONKO will be supplying EPTA’s award winning Trans-critical CO2 refrigeration system as well as supplying the full range of EPTA refrigerated display cabinets. This promises to be a state of the art supermarket in terms of environmentally sustainable refrigeration technology as well as the sleek European merchandising designs of EPTA, which are utilised by all of the top supermarket chains through out the world. This will be FONKO’s 6th Trans-critical CO2 installation for Foodstuffs N.I. establishing FONKO as … Read More

Bernoulli Gardens Apartments in Hobsonville is underway with Building 1 nearing completion and work already started on buildings 2 & 3 – Buildings 4 & 5 to start in the new year.  The FONKO team has been working diligently with Bracewell Construction to keep this project ontrack. A design and build project, FONKO is providing Air Conditioning and Extract ventilation to all 5 buildings as well as carpark ventilation in Building 1.

Citi-Zen Apartments on Exmouth St Newton are nearing completion.  Great effort by the FONKO team in installing all the Air Conditioning, extract and supply air ventilation and carpark ventilation on this challenging 96 apartment building.

Bonnet Névé SkyShine changes the landscape of the frozen department with the first semivertical negative cabinet of the SkyEffect range. It is a never seen before innovation that places maximum emphasis on the presentation of the displayed products and assures a double load capacity, for the best shopping experience.

Congratulations to Penny Ashton and Foodstuffs for the opening of New World Whangaparoa. Both the Mechanical HVAC and Trans-critical CO2 Refrigeration Systems were installed by the team at FONKO for this project. Special thanks to the project teams run by Jim Ward and Jim Power for delivering a great result especially considering the opening was bought forward so trading could begin before the Christmas rush. This is FONKO’s first Refrigeration installation and with the help of ARNEG S.p.A it has been a huge success. We look forward to our next project which is New World Milford.

Breaking News – Dominion Constructors have awarded the Mechanical HVAC contract for Victoria Residences @ 75 Victoria Street West to Fonko. With work commencing onsite in April 2016 going through to July 2017.

Fonko has been engaged by Savory Construction to provide the Mechanical Air Conditioning and Ventilation as well as the Refrigeration plant for the New World Whangaparoa Supermarket, due to open in December 2015. The state of the art Trans-critical CO2 refrigeration plant offers refrigeration using natural refrigerants with a GWP (Global Warming Potential) of 1. Which is much lower than conventional refrigerants used.

Fonko has been employed to deliver a design & build Mechanical HVAC & Trans-critical CO2 Refrigeration Package for the New World Milford Project due to open March/April 2016.