# NZ Packhouse Scraping Progress
**Date:** 2026-02-11
**Goal:** Find 50+ new NZ packhouses/cool storage facilities (target: 100+ total)

## NEW COMPANIES FOUND

### Verified Packhouses/Cool Storage

1. **Punchbowl Packhouse**
   - Website: punchbowl.co.nz
   - Region: Bay of Plenty
   - Type: Kiwifruit packhouse
   - Notes: State-of-the-art technology, season Feb-June

2. **Golden Bay Fruit Packers**
   - Website: (need to find)
   - Region: Motueka, Nelson
   - Address: 61 Lyndhurst Drive, Motueka / Queen Victoria St (25,000 sq meter facility)
   - Type: Apple packhouse
   - Notes: $25M facility opened 2019, state-of-the-art

3. **Lineage Logistics NZ (Tauranga)**
   - Website: lineagelogistics.com
   - Region: Tauranga, Bay of Plenty
   - Address: Tauriko, Tauranga
   - Type: Cold storage facility
   - Size: 7,150m² refrigerated bulk storage
   - Notes: Next-generation facility, opened 2023, acquired Cold Storage Nelson

4. **Cold Storage Nelson** (now owned by Lineage)
   - Website: coldstoragenz.org.nz (association site)
   - Locations: Nelson, Christchurch (multiple sites)
   - Type: Cold storage
   - Notes: Acquired by Lineage Logistics in 2022

5. **Motueka Cold Storage Ltd**
   - Address: Old Wharf Road, Motueka
   - Region: Nelson
   - Type: Cold storage

6. **DMS Te Puke** (expansion of existing DMS Progrowers)
   - Website: dms4kiwi.co.nz
   - Region: Te Puke, Bay of Plenty
   - Type: Kiwifruit packhouse & coolstore
   - Notes: $40M expansion, 5,400m² new packhouse, capacity 12M trays/year at Te Puke

## EXISTING COMPANIES - NEED VERIFICATION

Companies already in the 78-company list that need website/detail updates:
- Port Pack & Cool Storage (website: portpack.co.nz) ✓
- Auckland Pack & Cool (website: apac.co.nz - need to verify)
- Tasman Coldstore (website: tasmancoldstore.co.nz) ✓

## SEARCH SOURCES

### Web Searches Completed:
- ✓ Hawke's Bay packhouse cool storage
- ✓ Bay of Plenty packhouse cold storage
- ✓ Nelson Motueka packhouse
- ✓ Gisborne packhouse
- ✓ Central Otago packhouse (limited results)
- ✓ CA storage controlled atmosphere
- ✓ Specific company searches

### Industry Intelligence:
- NZKGI: ~39 kiwifruit packing facilities, 60 coolstores
- 16 Zespri Registered Suppliers
- MPI export registers (blocked by Incapsula)

## NEXT SEARCHES NEEDED

1. Individual company searches for major players not yet confirmed
2. Yellow Pages NZ directory scraping
3. Finda.co.nz business directory
4. LinkedIn company searches
5. More specific regional searches (Cromwell, Alexandra, Roxburgh for Central Otago)
6. Cold storage association members list
7. Pipfruit NZ members
8. Fresh produce news sites archives

## COMPANIES TO INVESTIGATE

Based on search results, need to find more details on:
- Coolpak (multiple NZ locations)
- First Cold (cold storage)
- Big Chill Distribution (Christchurch)
- Coldsands (Papamoa Beach)
- Otaki Cold Storage
- Refrigafreighters (storage services)
- Hall's Group (6 cold storage locations)
- TKL (kiwifruit logistics - 5200 pallet coolstore at Mt Maunganui)

## STATUS
- Found: 6-10 new verified companies so far
- Need: 40-50 more
- Approach: Continue systematic regional searches + company-specific research