Waikato Business News April/May 2023

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WCL Group delivers over 20 years of quality painting and plasterboard services in the Waikato Proudly family-owned and operated, WCL Group having been around for over 20 years providing professional painting services and now plasterboard service across the Waikato. idely known as the painting and plasterboard professionals, WCL are highly respected within the construction industry for providing a quality and professional service. They place a big emphasis on family with two generations currently working in the company, bringing a range of talents to the business. Hamish Wilton a qualified quantity surveyor, started out in the building industry at 25 and then took up a role managing a local painting company. By 1987 Hamish and wife Janice had set up a painting business in partnership with others in the trade, before finally going it alone in 1999 when they established Wilton Contracting Limited. We can now offer factory coatings from everything from doors through to pre coating cladding before it heads to site and are prepared to scale this side of their operation up to suit demand. From left to right: Luke Orr, Mike Young, Hamish Wilton & Tim Wilton. QUALITY PAINTERS & PLASTERBOARD CONTRACTORS EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS IN HAMILTON AND ACROSS WAIKATO WCL Group Ltd 41 Mckee Street, Pukete, Hamilton
We control such a significant number of key trades, which has proven to be worthwhile for all our clients and suppliers. Always looking for ways to innovate, WCL have introduced, and continue to add, products and services that deliver the best possible service and results to their loyal clients. Most recently the team have added WCL Ceiling Battens to their suite of services and built a customised spray booth at their Pukete premises. WCL Stop the World is the Ceiling Batten, Plasterboard Supply and Installation and GIB Stopping side of the business and general manager and director Mike Young is excited about the future for the group. “Being new to the business is very exciting and we have already grown and achieved so much,” he says. “While Mike is not family, he is as good as having had known him for some 20 years. He is a very welcome addition to our group and with his previous experience from the construction industry and police he brings a unique skill set to the table,” Hamish says. Having a staff of over 100 employees all based in the Waikato allows WCL the advantage to offer its full range of services to their client across the region. With providing quality work top priority, WCL introduced the installation of the ceiling battens to allow better control of the complete interior envelope of the project. Tim Wilton and Luke Orr, joint managing directors of Wilton Contracting, have worked hard to establish the business to operate at scale and provide high quality work. Tim, son and nephew Luke have worked together and are proud to have recently launched their customised spray booth WCL Factory Coatings. The internal spray booth measures 19-metres by six-metres and it’s one of the biggest in-house booths in New Zealand and the only one in the Waikato. “We've invested the money into the right machinery so we can save time onsite, save in scaffolding costs and it just makes the whole job move a lot quicker,” Tim says. “We can now offer factory coatings from everything from doors through to pre coating cladding before it heads to site and we are prepared to scale this side of the operation up to suit demand.” The painting operation through to paint touch-ups and maintenance is Tim’s role. This is something he oversees with the help of his two supervisors. Tim is responsible for quality control and day-to-day supervision of staff and contractors, and he is always looking to improve the painting side of the business. “WCL Group has a strong focus on the future to ensure we meet market demands and we are always looking for new innovative ways to develop the business,” Luke says. WCL believe their model is far more than just getting the job done, it’s professionalism, presentation, client liaison and their unique maintenance model that sets them apart from the rest. “We were the first ones to have a designated touch-up team. We accept it as part of our costs. We understand what the builder has to do to get their product across the line,” Tim says. Hamish says he is now very content and excited for the future of WCL Group with the management structure in place, as he now begins his retirement journey with wife Janice, while still remaining involved and he looks forward to watching the business grow and develop. WCL have gone from strength to strength with regards to initiative and volume of work, they are a well organised operation and contribute hugely to the industry,” testimony from WCL’s plasterboard supplier. PHONE: 07 849 4818 www.wclgroup.co.nz
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