NHP

NHP’s beginnings span back to 1968, when company founder, Nigel H Peck, had a vision to create a 100% Australian owned and operated switchgear company. In a market dominated by large internationals, Nigel seized the opportunity to offer Australian customers unprecedented service and a wide range of quality products.

At NHP, our focus on service and quality has enabled us to evolve from a small business of only 15 employees, to a prominent company with a 600-strong team and offices in 15 key locations throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Today, NHP sources quality products from over 50 specialist manufacturers worldwide based on carefully researched needs and requirements of Australasian industry. Our product offerings encompass the key areas of:

• Motor Control
• Power Distribution
• Automation & Communication
• Control & Switching
• Safety & Protection
• Power Quality
• Hazardous Location
• Sensing & Detection
• Monitoring & Display
• Enclosures & Termination

NHP serves a diverse range of customers and specifiers: from electrical contractors, electrical wholesalers, original equipment manufacturers, engineering consultants, switchboard manufacturers to a variety of end users. NHP goes to great lengths to deliver the highest level of service to all our customer groups. We have recognised that it not only takes world class facilities to deliver this – but also a world class team of dedicated personnel.

With the largest product management, technical & engineering support and sales team in the Australasian electrical industry, we are fully equipped to provide customers with product and application solutions, application troubleshooting advice, field service and after sales support - NHP's quality 'value add'. Furthermore, our "Emergency Breakdown Service" is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Manufacturing facilities for emergency product conversion, adaptation, and fast-track manufacturing are available in all our branches across Australia and New Zealand.

At NHP, our policy of “on time in-full” supply requires expansive stock holdings located close to customers, coupled with an extensive distribution network, ensuring that product is available when and where our customers need it. Our “National Distribution and Manufacturing Facility” at Laverton, located between the shipping terminal and airport, facilitates our ability to value-add and customize as required, to suit specific customer needs.

NHP's commitment to quality and service continues today and into the future and underpins our primary focus - passion for the customer.

About SPOHN & BURKHARDT

Spohn + Burkhardt made its humble beginning in the early 1920s by Karl Spohn and David Burkhardt. They have over 75 years of experience in the design and manufacturing of electrical motor resistance starters, various switchgear and more recently specialising in joystick controllers, operator consoles, portable control stations and customised operator cabins for various industries.

Spohn + Burkhardt are located at Blaubeuren, just outside Stutgart in the south west of Germany, and is still in private ownership today, now manufacturing a diverse range of products lines with agents in over 25 countries. Spohn + Burkhardt are renowned for their high quality design and manufacturing techniques. They manufacture a comprehensive range of joystick controllers, ergonomic operator (revolving) consoles, portable pendant control stations, cam switches, resistors and starters, synchro transmitters and customised operator cabins. Their products are fully developed and tested in-house under extremely demanding circumstances for various industrial applications.

Spohn + Burkhardt products have standard features from small joystick controllers rating at 2 amp, AC miniature design to 25 amp and AC/DC rating for heavy duty applications. The controllers come with various accessories such as different types of handles, pushbuttons, rocker switches and other accessories such as interfacing with PLC systems and variable speed drives with potentiometers for electrical hydraulic applications, analogue, digital and binary output, as well as rotary encoders and programmable rotary encoders for various applications.

The company has been certified according to the internationally recognised ISO 9001 quality assurance system, ensuring that you have a product which is being continually developed and approved to exceed the high standards by today's industry.