Stirring The Pot

About Stirring The Pot

Created by metal minds for metal minds – join us for practical conversations that get to the nuts and bolts of the metals industry here in New Zealand. Connect with leaders & experts from across the globe who talk overcoming key industry challenges, and influencers who cast their eyes to the future. Perfect if you’re time poor but want to keep your finger on the pulse. Prepare to be challenged, informed & inspired!

Publisher

HERA

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2019

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

133 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   What investors actually look for in startups?

   Getting a great idea out of the lab and into industrial-scale production takes more than good science. It takes capital, the right facility, and someone who's done it before. In this episode, Matt Rowe, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Outset Ventures walks through what it actually takes to scale a hard science or engineering company in New Zealand. He shares lessons from a decade as an early employee at a Kiwi-founded biotech that scaled to giant industrial facilities around the world, ...

2. 

   30 Aug 2026

   Is steel the hardest material to design?

   In this episode of Stirring the Pot, Humans of Steel edition, we're having a kōrero (conversation) with Dr Charles Clifton, the civil engineer who started HERA's structural steel division in 1983 and has spent more than four decades reshaping how New Zealand builds with steel. Charles grew up on a farm in southern Hawke's Bay, the son of an army engineer, before studying civil engineering at the University of Canterbury and designing buildings in England. He came home to take on HERA's newly ...

3. 

   22 Jul 2026

   Steel Circularity in NZ; The Pathway to Net Zero

   NZ has one of the cleanest electricity grids in the world. So why are we shipping our scrap steel overseas to be recycled? Cambridge University researcher Michael Allison modelled 28 scenarios to find the decarbonisation pathway for Aotearoa New Zealand's steel industry. In this episode he shares what he found, what the Electric Arc Furnace actually unlocks, and what fabricators, engineers and contractors can do right now. Research commissioned by HERA. Resources and links Connect with HERA...

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YouTube views

1,848,937

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Spotify

4.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

62

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

31

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