MHM Automation
Richard Rookes is a seasoned executive with extensive leadership experience, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of MHM Automation since July 2015. In addition to this role, Richard Rookes has been a Non Executive Director at SKOPE since November 2022. Previous positions include Director at Murray & Co from March 2005 to August 2015 and various Non Executive Director roles at CommArc, Mercer Group Ltd, and Atlas Group Limited between 2011 and 2015. Richard Rookes holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Commerce from the University of Otago, completed in 1996.
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MHM Automation
MHM Automation designs and supplies innovative, engineered solutions to the primary and logistics sectors worldwide. The company specialises in automated solutions, with a broad range of expertise in robotics and other leading automation technologies. MHM Automation provides solutions for the food processing, dairy, meat, horticulture, industrial, timber, agriculture and logistics sectors. More than 500 installations have been completed for major players in these industries across the globe. MHM Automation’s product and service range spans chilling and freezing, materials handling, packaging, fabrication, palletising and conveying, pressure vessels, reverse packaging and timber processing equipment. Many of its product brands are recognised as global leaders in their technology field. These include Milmeq chilling and freezing systems, H&C reverse packaging and materials handling systems, Mercer stainless fabrication services, AiCo carton equipment, BetaVac vacuum packaging equipment, PV Valve for tankers, SCE timber processing equipment and mild steel fabrication, and Scotts and Vekos boilers. The company’s history dates back to 1884, when it was founded in Christchurch as J Mercer and Sons, and it has been NZX listed since 1959. Today, MHM Automation operates seven offices across New Zealand, Australia and the USA.