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Steel solutions for South Florida’s tough conditions: Howick heads to South Florida BUILD Expo

Discover how cold formed steel framing helps builders in South Florida overcome challenges like humidity, termites, and hurricanes. Join Howick at the South Florida BUILD Expo in Fort Lauderdale, Nov 12–13, 2025. ⏱️ 2 min read

Choosing your framing system just became simpler with our 2025 guide

From standard frames to telescopic panels and multi-profile joists, Howick has a machine to match your build goals. Our updated 2025 mini guide helps you choose with confidence. ⏱️ 1 min read

Building smarter with steel: Your 2025 Machine Buyer Guide

Discover the 2025 Howick Machine Buyer Guide - your essential resource for building smarter, faster, and more profitably with light gauge steel framing automation. ⏱️ 1 min read

Howick named a finalist for NZ Manufacturer of the Year Award

Howick named a finalist in the 2025 Minister for Manufacturing Awards, recognising innovation, leadership, and excellence in NZ manufacturing. ⏱️ 1 min read

Howick welcomes KOPE as a software partner

Find out how Howick’s newest software partner, KOPE, is streamlining the design and automation of telescopic framing production using Howick’s X-TENDA™ 3600. ⏱️ 40 sec read

Celebrating a Howick legend: Wayne Rowe clocks up his 40th year

Wayne Rowe, Howick’s General Manager, is one of the company’s most experienced and capable people, but it’s been quite a journey for him! Read on to find out more about his story here. ⏱️ 5 min read

Cold formed steel “clouds” win top 2024 CFSEI Creative Detail award

A collaboration between Universal Creative, AECOM, KHS&S and STUD-IO, using a Howick machine to build clouds for the Mario Kart™ Ride at Universal Studios wins CFSEI Creative Detail award. ⏱️ 1 min read

International Code Council (ICC) Certification for Howick now includes X-TENDA™ 3600 telescopic components

Did you know that profiles manufactured by a number of Howick machines at manufacturing plants throughout the United States are ICC certified? ⏱️ 1 min read

Meet Justin: Howick’s new Technical Support and Sales for UK and Ireland

Howick is proud to introduce you to Justin Tudor, our new Technical Support and Sales team member for the UK and Ireland. ⏱️ 1 min read

Could Greystar be the tipping point for modular in the USA?

Discover the story behind Greystar’s Modern Living Building system, what has been holding back modular construction in the USA, and how insiders see change ahead.

X-CALIBR™ - The new secret weapon for large span structural portal construction

With sister company Central Steel Framing (CSF), Howick has evolved its roll-forming technology to create a new roll-formed structural steel system that is completely pre-fabricated, without the need for any drilling, cutting, welding or measuring.

Howick FRAMA™ technology deployed with the United States Navy

Howick's FRAMA™ 3200 roll-forming machines are providing the US Navy with rapid, light steel fabrication wherever it is needed worldwide. Click to read more about this innovation.

VIRI cut steel waste by 78%, and now you can do the same

Howick distributor VIRI found a way to reduce steel wastage by 78% and now they have agreed for us to share their process. See the VIRI waste reduction process here.

A partnership built to last. Queensland Steel House Frames celebrates a decade of success with Howick.

Queensland Steel House Frames celebrates ten years of working with Howick and now has ten Howick FRAMA™ machines across two sites.

Amr Raafat and the future of industrialised construction

Go on the road with Amr Raafat as he interviews trailblazers in industrialised construction. Read about his interview with Eddie Pallotta at SYNC Industries in Melbourne.

TIPABIN: Turning a manufacturing waste problem into a time saving solution for any factory floor.

Howick has never been the company to waste a good problem - it turned a factory floor waste issue into an innovative system that makes shifting by-product easier, faster & safer. This is the story of problem solving & engineering that led to TIPABIN®️.

Windover wins Autodesk Excellence Award using telescopic framing

Windover Construction has once again won big at the Autodesk Excellence Awards – thanks in part to their use of prefabricated telescopic fit-out studs, produced by the Howick X-TENDA™ 3600.

Découvrez les avantages des ossatures en acier mince à Batimat 2022, Paris.

Howick est ravi de revenir au Salon Batimat 2022, Porte de Versailles Paris, du 3 au 6 octobre ; le plus important salon professionnel de la construction et du bâtiment en France.

Howick joins renowned UK interior fit-outs organisation

Howick is proud to announce it has become an associate member of the UK’s Finishes and Interiors Sector (FIS) – the finishes, fit-out, and interiors sector’s leading representative body.

Bedford College in the UK giving students the Howick advantage

The Connolly Centre for Modern Construction opened recently at Bedford College in the UK. The facility aims to arm students with first-hand knowledge of the latest in offsite and modern construction methods.

Howick framing up live in Florida for IBS 2022

Join us for the International Builder’s Show, Orlando, Florida, February 8-10, 2022

It is his Silver Anniversary, but for us he is gold

This month marks an increasingly rare achievement in this day and age. Deon Anderson, our head of global sales, celebrates his 25th anniversary with the Howick group on 27 November. Find out what his colleagues had to say about him.

TIN Member Spotlight on Howick

Howick’s success had been recognised and awarded numerous times over the past decade by TIN (Technology Investment Network, the leading independent source of information on NZ’s technology sector) … and it has just happened again.

Light-Gauge Steel use on the rise in US, and Howick part of the picture

Howick has received a solid mention in a recent Rollforming Magazine article focusing on how light-gauge steel is in growth mode in the USA.

Mini Guides - Choosing the right Howick framing system

This is a brief guide that gives a summary of the different machines in the Howick range and what they can do for you, which will help inform your buying decisions.

MMC project ranking

How does your business score on the Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) scale? Did you even know there is such a thing?

The Arrival of Digital Twins

Read up a little on digital twin activity in construction and you can be forgiven for thinking offsite capability has just become twice as smart!

The next normal in construction

A recent study by management consulting company, McKinsey & Company, outlines predictions around key industry shifts that will lead toward a more standardised, integrated process.

Light gauge steel stars in sustainable house prototype

The benefits of offsite construction and the use of light gauge steel are being lauded by an Irish chartered building surveyor and sustainability advocate.

Offsite fabrication building momentum with MMC

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) may be a relatively new term, but as a construction methodology, it has been building momentum for a while.

Howick up with the times regarding construction wearables

Howick is up with the play when it comes to what has been recognised as the top construction wearables of 2021.

Howick’s new Technical Manager for the UK and Ireland

As part of our drive for excellence, we are delighted to welcome aboard Paul Meredith as Technical Manager.

Steel’s sustainability credentials in the spotlight

The Light Steel Framing Association (LSFA) is on a mission to raise awareness of the benefits of steel’s sustainability.

Lumber prices soaring

Lumber prices in the United States have exploded over the last year, reaching a record high.

A breakthrough in Industrialised Construction – xplorexiT

Amr Raafat, Vice President of VDC and Technology for Windover Construction, discusses the seismic change technology is having on construction.

“Time to stop building snowflakes” – Blokable Inc

Conventional housing development overdue for a re-think argues Aaron Holm and Nelson Del Rio.

Team Profile: Introducing Deon Anderson, Head of Global Sales for Howick

Deon’s is an unusual story in this day and age. He started out with Howick as a machine apprentice at just 16 years old. That means he has now spent 24 years with the business, and probably knows our technology and industry as well as any of us.

Premier Modular delivers 1700sqm hospital buildings in just four weeks

Premier Modular is one of the UKs leading off-site construction companies. The business recently completed over 1700 square meters of buildings for Nightingale Hospital Exeter four times faster using modular construction techniques.

Howick adopting AR to give customers an edge

Howick is employing new AR technology to create a virtual ‘in-person experience’ to help guide and direct remote customers through engineering support requirements, commissioning and training needs.

Major opportunity for progressive construction businesses

A recent major study by McKinsey has highlighted nine major trends that are coming together to change the way the construction industry works. At stake is a forecast of $265 billion in profit – about 45% of incumbent value.

Join us at Offsite Expo UK and Metalcon USA

We’re at it again! db_howick2019_dev will be globe-trotting again across September and October, to bring our innovation in steel roll forming technology to the United Kingdom and the United States.

Howick Wins ExportNZ Best Medium Business Award!

The entire team at Howick are pleased and proud to announce that they are the winners of the 2019 Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Awards for Best Medium Business (exporting goods)...

Jason Nicholson & Harrison Switzer-Corbett Apprenticeship Completed

The team at Howick Ltd is pleased to announce the successful completion of two new Mechanical Engineering Fitting & Machining apprenticeships this year. Congratulations...

It’s Gold for Howick and StrucSoft Solutions at AU London 2019!

Howick and StrucSoft Solutions have teamed up in a Gold Sponsorship of the 2019 Autodesk University conference in London...

New French Distribution Partner

International Sales Manager Deon Anderson jetted to France last month to spend some time with our newest distributor, Patrick Irigoyen at Technic Steel.

Howick Partners with Autodesk

On October 5, 2016 Autodesk launched their new BUILD Space facility in Boston, MA.

Santa at Howick

We have built a Steel Framed Santa Sleigh and Reindeer to Celebrate the Holidays. What have you made with your Howick Framing Machine?

Offsite Construction Awards

The 2016 Offsite Construction Awards were recently announced at a presentation during UK Construction week.

American Chamber of Commerce Awards

Howick has been selected as a finalist in the latest American Chamber of Commerce Awards:

Optimise Productivity

The Howick Frama machines produce fully processed framing for Walls, Trusses and Floors from steel coil.

EOS Facades on a roll

One of the UK's leading specialist metal roll-forming companies, EOS Facades, is expanding its section capability with a significant investment.

Howick Receives NTA Certification

NAPPANEE, INDIANA: NTA, Inc. has certified (Certification Report HOCK032015-80) that Howick, Ltd. Cold-Formed Load-Bearing...

Howick collaborates with construction software partners for industry insights

AutoCAD or Revit? 2D or 3D workflows? What is happening with construction software in 2022? How can things be improved? Complete our State of Construction Software Survey 2022 and be in to win 1 of 3 Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets*