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
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
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
New Zealand Panels Group is a leading manufacturer of melamine, veneer, acrylic and high-pressure laminate panels under the Prime Panels and Bestwood brands. Prime Panels also offers a quality range of engineered stone benchtops.
The Dezignatek business provides custom finishing for doors, drawers and panels with a comprehensive range of Thermoform options and an extensive laser edging selection for melamine, acrylic and a range of Soft-Matt HPL.
The company has grown rapidly to number more than 200 people across the country, but fiercely adheres to a small company DNA and a culture established by the founding partners. It’s about caring deeply what our clients want and need, being flexible and agile, and not hampered by big company bureaucracy.
All our Specification Managers are accredited Greenstar professionals and we operate from a sophisticated new Greenstar *4 manufacturing plant and showroom in East Tamaki.
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.
