About Carac

Carac Manufacturing - a leader specialising in componentry manufacturing for 22 years

Carac was established in 1988 by John Burling (Managing Director) to produce his own innovative range of patented trailer couplings. This quality range increased over the next few years to cover agricultural, road and boating related couplings and components. Many of New Zealand's leading boat and trailer manufacturers use Carac components daily to complete their products.

In 2000 Carac began the process of modernising its manufacturing plant. Today Carac offers a wide variety of services and capabilities including Amada laser cutters (one with a rotary cutting head for pipe and hollow section), high precision Omax abrasive Water Jet cutter with tiltajet, a high definition CNC Plasma with gas cutting creating large capacity profile cutting, CNC turret punching machines, CNC Press brakes, CNC Lathes, CNC Mill, many fully automatic robot welders, over 60 mechanical and hydraulic power metal presses 1 ton to 500 +, over 25 auto drilling and tapping machines, fully automatic bandsaws, pipe and solid rod/bar bending machines, NC guillotines,
bead blasting rumbling.RHS and Pipe Rolling. Due to this diversification, Carac has been able to expand its client base and now produces components for the automotive, agricultural, marine, engineering and utility industries within New Zealand and around the world.

Carac prides itself in it's ability to adapt to suit customer requirements as they arise. Carac is now one of New Zealand's most advanced cutting shops and won't be beaten on quality. A key strength of Carac's service is a fast turn around for one off and sample/prototype parts from time of order placement. With energetic and knowledgeable staff being the biggest asset a company can have, Carac is confident in saying that we have a wide range of skilled people able and willing to help our customers create and design manufacturing solutions at competitive pricing. John  and the company over the years has recieved a number of business and innovation awards, the latest being the new patentend TrackGrip for diggers and dozers with exceptional sideways  traction.

Carac Manufacturing is a family owned business with John and Yvonne's three children now fully involved.