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A friendly reminder that our Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Blenheim, and Christchurch labs will be closed on Thursday, 25 April. Our Bay of Plenty lab will remain open. If you plan to send any time or temperature-sensitive samples, please ensure you schedule these to arrive before or after this date, to avoid delays.

Ensuring consistent turnaround times is paramount as we prepare for the upcoming honey season. By maintaining efficiency and reliability in our operations, we not only meet the demands of our clients, but also uphold our reputation for excellence in service delivery.

The start of a new year is when most businesses look at what they do, and make changes where it is sensible to do so. For our Ag section, there are a couple of small changes to advise on, following this review.

Graham Corban, Key Account Manager - Environmental, is a member of the WasteMINZ Coal Tar in Roading working group that prepared the recently released Guidelines for Assessing and Managing Coal Tar Contamination in Roading. WasteMINZ released the guidelines in late 2023.

After an impressive nineteen years, our Air Quality Section Manager, Dr Ian Graves, left Hill Labs in January this year. Ian is taking a very well-deserved break to spend time with family, his surfboard and his fishing rod, before deciding his next steps. We wish him all the best and thank him for his many years of commitment to Hill Labs. He will be missed!

Hill Labs has been a proud sponsor of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards since 2003. This long standing partnership celebrates farmer and grower achievement and showcases good practice, enabling the sharing of positive farming and growing stories.