About Us

About NIVEN

NIVEN Abattoir equipment was founded by JJ Niven in the 1960’s, designing and building full meat processing plants, both in NZ and all across the world. Over the last 6 decades the company has been through various ownership, with equipment, knowledge and skills eventually ending up with Napier Engineering in NZ.

The company produces NIVEN equipment for meat plants across the globe. We have equipment in Chile, NZ, Australia and on fishing vessels.

Why Are Our Machines the Best?

We talk with our customers. We visit our customers. We innovate our machines to solve problems for our customers. We’re engineers.

  • We’ve designed our core products to be (in our opinion) way better than our competitors. Our machines are efficient. They last (most of our machines are still in service after 30 years).
  • They do what we say they will. Our goal is to enable you to improve your processes – themore you can process the more profit can make.
  • Could one of our machines replace multiple other machines? Could it offer better throughput to reducing bottlenecking.
  • Could it offer more consistent particle size and thus more efficient downstream chemical use? Talk to us to discuss your needs and we will give you honest feedback.

Problem Solving

Our Equipment Is Constantly Evolving Based on Feedback or Problems We Are Seeing. For Example, With Tightening Regulations Disposal Of Sheep Skins Were an Issue for Many Customers – We Stepped Back And Came up With a Solution That Used Our Standard Machines (With Some Extra Hidden Sauce) to Allow Skins to Be Cut Up. These Can Now Be Composted or Sent to Bio Waste Generators. What Was an Ongoing Cost for the Customer Has Became a Potential Sales Stream. Do You Have an Issue That Our Machines Might Be Able to Help With?

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