private industry turf maintenance founded 1981 1981 headquarters tauranga new zealand key people bob sievwright founder and ceo products professional turf maintenance equipment website www.trimaxmowers.com trimax mowing systems is a new zealand based manufacturer of professional turf maintenance equipment . trimax designs develops builds and markets high quality roller mowers with flail or rotary blade systems . the company s headquarters are located in tauranga new zealand . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded by the former gm production engineer bob sievwright . after he graduated general motors institute in flint michigan he designed manufactured and sold special flails for flail mowers and eventually started his own mowing company . the first mowers were flail mowers and flail mulchers for kiwifruit cultivation trimax was soon recognised for its high quality of cut and strong build roller mower . 1 2 in 1981 the company then named trimax industries ltd. began the production of their first flail mowers ezeemow mowcraft and mulchmasta . in 1985 the company started its own dedicated research and development department and exported their first products to australia . the company was awarded clarification needed best engineering in 1991 and exporter of the year in 1993 by the bnz bay of plenty export awards . 3 4 to support trimax s early exports to the usa sievwright started the company base3usa in the early 90 s. the company is based in griffin georgia near atlanta and provides warehouses logistics and fulfillment for other importers . 5 6 in 1997 windsor castle and the surrounding windsor great park began using trimax procut mowers for their maintenance . 7 in 1998 the company opened their first uk office and warehouse in little addington northamptonshire to supply local dealers and in 2005 they opened their own distribution warehouse in griffin georgia usa . in 2008 the pegasus s3 mower was awarded bronze at the 2008 new zealand best design awards . and 2 years later the trimax merlin mower the predecessor of snake was awarded silver at the 2010 new zealand best design awards . 8 the company won the bay of plenty export awards for the second time in 2010 and is regarded as the most prominent company of the region . 9 since early 2012 some parts for their flaildek fx and pegasus s3 mowers are manufactured in great britain . 10 in late 2014 trimax moved their uk offices and warehouse to northampton northamptonshire . trimax manufactures at its headquarters in new zealand and some parts in the uk and has corporate offices and warehouses in the uk australia and the usa and export their products to south africa france sweden norway denmark the netherlands and germany . notable grounds maintained with trimax mowers include guards polo club uses trimax stealth s2 and the new trimax snake mowers in their maintenance . 11 old course at st andrews uses trimax merlin mowers for its fairways and rough . 12 the waikato stadium in hamilton new zealand uses trimax procut s3 for their grass maintenance . the stadium hosts the chiefs a super rugby team . 13 raglan parc golf club at the raglan castle uses trimax snake mower for its semi rough . 14 silverstone circuit has used trimax stealth mowers since 1999 for the turf around the track . 15 atlanta motor speedway has used trimax pegasus mowers since 2009 for the infield . 16 products edit all trimax roller mowers are tractor powered and have either flail or rotary blade systems . 17 references edit http www.trimaxmowers.com index.php 9 articles 224 history.html nz business ; feb95 vol . 9 issue 1 p24 nz business ; sep2008 vol . 22 issue 8 p4 http www.bopexportnzawards.org.nz assets previous awards winners handout 2013.pdf http exportermagazine.co.nz articles sourcing logistics solutions http www.base3usa.com home.php id 265 nz management issue march 2002 ; http www.management.co.nz articles kindest cut http bestawards.co.nz entries product category non consumer merlin http www.nzherald.co.nz bay of plenty times news article.cfm c id 1503343 & objectid 10997687 http www.pitchcare.com magazine debut for second uk built trimax mower.html wildlife groundcare news & offers summer 2014 page 19 ; http www.listerwilder.co.uk groundcare testimonials.php greenkeeping issue 81 december 2012 http gmlsport.se produkter trimax procut s3 greenkeeping issue 100 july 2014 nz management issue march 2002 http www.v8.co.nz tag trimax http www.golfbusinessnews.com news corporate trimax issues reminder about three year warranty external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to trimax . official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trimax mowing systems & oldid 731763763 categories agricultural machinery manufacturersmanufacturing companies of new zealandcompanies established in 1981hidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from november 2014commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 27 july 2016 at 11 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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