Metal Work Wins Steel Oscar

Inventors of the world’s first container tilter, New Zealand company A-Ward, have won this year’s Swedish Steel Prize for the MiSlide, a flexible system for compressing and packing metallic scrap in containers. Produced specifically with the recycling and waste sectors in mind, the system was designed to ensure safe, fast, versatile and damage-free loading of 20- and 40-foot containers within five minutes. A-Ward says the Swedish event is “the equivalent to the Oscars of the steel engineering world”. A-Ward says the victory proves small businesses can match “the big boys in the world”, arguing: “We were up against some of the world giants of manufacturing such as Volvo and John Deere who have billions of dollars at their disposal.”