Protect Business

Introducing The ultimate safeguard

Until now, tank design the world over has been based on design codes developed to protect only people, not property or product. ONGUARD reverses this approach.

Our system is focused primarily on preventing earthquake damage and loss, knowing that in doing so people are inherently safer as well.

The ONGUARD Value Proposition

Protects Product

Product is the lifeblood of a business. ONGUARD ensures it is held securely within its tanks during an earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.

Protects People

By ensuring tanks and surrounding infrastructure are secure, risk of injury or death from tanks rupturing or collapsing is reduced. The ONGUARD system meets statutory obligations to maintain a safe workplace consistent with international best practice.

Protects position in market

We understand that market share is gained through consistency of delivery and the inability to do this can result in valuable losses. ONGUARD helps to guarantee a sustainable business future in spite of earthquake risk.

Protects profit

Protecting the tanks and product subsequently protects the business’ entire feasibility. The insurance industry recognises the reduction in risk that ONGUARD provides and offers benefits to infrastructure owners who invest in the system.

Protects place

Protecting infrastructure is paramount to the continuation of business following a seismic event. ONGUARD minimises the risk of damage and of the costly repairs and downtime that follow.

Protects platform

ONGUARD keeps business interruption to a minimum. After the ONGUARD anchors have been activated, the sacrificial element within can be simply, quickly and cheaply replaced with no specialist tools or expertise, and business can continue.

Yealands Estate

Yealands Estate Winery is located in the Awatere Valley, Marlborough at the north-eastern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. Stretching from the foothills of the Kaikoura Ranges to undulating downs overlooking Cook Strait, Yealands Estate Winery is the single largest privately owned vineyard in New Zealand.

Yealands were aware that they were situation in an earthquake zone and built their infrastructure accordingly, employing the ONGUARD system throughout the winery. They experienced minimal damage as a result of the 2013 Marlborough earthquakes and put this down to the effectiveness of the ONGUARD system. Peter Yealands notes the benefits of having ONGUARD installed extend to assurance for insurance companies and minimizing the risk of earthquake claims, especially prevalent following the Marlborough and Canterbury quakes.