Thank you to the following organisations for generously sponsoring the 2024 NKBA conference and NKBA Student Awards:
Student Awards Event Sponsor
DNKBA Scholarship Sponsor
Blum’s functional kitchen hardware fascinates with its smooth opening and integrated soft-closing technology. Complemented by its highly ergonomic and practical organisational accessories. All 100% made in Austria.
Julius Blum founded Blum over 60 years ago in his hometown of Vorarlberg, Austria. Today Blum is a global leader in lift mechanisms, hinges, drawer and inner dividing systems for kitchens and other living areas, with innovation and high product quality.
From its local roots in Austria the family-owned company has grown to employ 8,000 people around the world. It operates seven plants in Vorarlberg as well as production sites in the USA, Brazil and Poland. With 30 subsidiaries and representative offices worldwide, Blum now supplies cabinetry hardware to more than 120 markets.
NKBA Conference Sponsor
Building and Construction Training Fund’s vision is to have a highly productive, attractive and cohesive construction sector.
BCTF’s vision will be achieved through the execution of objectives relating to the strategic pillars of Improving Skills and Pathways, Collaboration, and Future State and Sustainable.
NKBA Conference Sponsor
BCITO is New Zealand's leading building and construction apprenticeship provider.
Thirty-five thousand BCITO trade qualified professionals and counting. We're passionate about what we do which is changing people's lives and helping them create successful careers and lifestyles.
The construction industry needs confident, capable and motivated professionals. Through on-the-job training and regular guidance we're building a skilled workforce in which talented people can excel.
Alongside our industry employers, we create futures for dedicated tradies. We help them develop successful careers and become valuable contributors in New Zealand's building and construction industry.
BCITO. We’re building people.
NKBA Conference Sponsor
Waihanga Ara Rau is the Workforce Development Council for construction and infrastructure.
We ensure qualifications align with industry demands and empower Māori business and iwi development. We provide industries and employers with increased leadership and influence in vocational education.
Our success lies in employers trusting that graduates are job-ready, and that the vocational education and training system addresses future workforce and industry skills needs.
NKBA Conference Sponsor
NKBA Student Design Competition Sponsor
Improving homes for over 90 years.
Our family business has been helping people to make more of their homes for over 90 years. Established in Germany and now operating all over the world, the name Häfele is famous for innovation, quality and engineering. Our fittings, hardware and systems improve the way that kitchens work in every way possible.
In choosing Häfele you are benefiting from decades of specialist knowledge and experience brought to life through ideas that will enhance your experience of your home every day – and for many years to come: ideas from Häfele are built to last.
Häfele continues to set industry standards and will continue as the market leader with our remarkable innovation.
NKBA Student Design Competition Sponsor
DNKBA Scholarship Sponsor
Resene has all the quality paint, colour, wallpaper, curtains and professional advice you need to get a superb finish on your decorating projects, including everything you need for kitchens and bathrooms from the walls to cabinetry and kitchen floors.
Choose from thousands of colours in the Resene Total Colour System or let Resene create a custom colour match for you. Once you’ve chosen your favourite colour, get it tinted into the extensive range of Resene Environmental Choice approved low VOC paints. See the latest Resene fashion colours and whites and neutrals collection and get friendly and professional advice about how you can use these in your projects. Or if you have a tricky surface or project to paint, get free technical advice on the best paint system to use and how to apply it.
Resene has been proudly 100% NZ owned and operated since it started in 1946 and was named New Zealand’s Sustainable Business of the Year 2010 and Most Trusted Paint brand 2012.
DNKBA Scholarship Sponsor
From its beginnings in 2002 as Prime Panels, NZ Panels Group has grown to become the leading manufacturer and distributor of interior panels and products. Our pressed decorative panels, benchtop surfaces and custom-made cabinetry doors are used extensively across the spectrum of residential and commercial interiors. Interior brands include Prime Panels, Bestwood, Dezignatek, Ultraglaze, Durasein, Wilsonart, Mercer and Acero.
Our specification team is among the most experienced in the industry and supports design and architecture clients nationwide.
NZ Panels Group also owns a nationwide network of joinery merchants (Impey's and Anthony Shearer) along with a particleboard plant making flooring and panel substrates under the Kopine brand.
NKBA Student Design Competition Sponsor
We have searched around the world for intelligently designed kitchen components that bring style and function to New Zealand kitchens.
We've also made it simple to find what you require. If you need a little more help, we are on hand to answer your questions too.
