Company profile

The ARANZ group of companies has the vision of developing technology based solutions to solve customers’ problems in differing application areas.  The group currently employs staff with high level skills in mathematics, engineering, software, hardware, manufacturing and business.  Our goal is to recruit talented and creative individuals with a mix of technical excellence and focus on developing innovative customer-focused solutions.  Qualifications held by the staff include 11 PhDs and 1 MB ChB (MD equivalent).
To date the group has demonstrated technical and commercial success in application areas as diverse as 3D modeling, data collection for movie making special effects, custom orthotics and prosthetics, and geological data interpretation.  For example:

• One of ARANZ’s first customers was Weta Digital who used our technology to bring to life animated characters in movie block busters such as Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
• The ARANZ-developed Hanger Insignia system is installed in hundreds of clinics in the United States for custom fitting prostheses to amputees, and is also used for fitting orthotics.
• ARANZ Medical Limited is a healthcare innovation company that provides technology-based solutions to improve health care. The primary product, Silhouette is a leading wound assessment and management system, actively used in more than 19 countries.
• ARANZ Geo Limited's flagship product, Leapfrog was developed specifically for the minerals mining industry and released to market in 2004, providing exploration and mine geologists with the ability to rapidly generate 3D models directly from drillhole data within a matter of hours as opposed to days.
• Another ARANZ Geo product, Leapfrog Hydro was released in 2009, providing an integrated 3D software solution for hydrogeological modelling. 3D models of the Central Plains, Canterbury, New Zealand and of Florida's hydrogeology have been developed using Leapfrog Hydro in collaboration with Environment Canterbury and the USGS respectively.
• In 2010, ARANZ Geo released Leapfrog Geothermal, software developed specifically to meet the needs of the geothermal industry. Developed in collaboration with GNS Science New Zealand, Leapfrog Geothermal has been used to facilitate more informed resource management decision on geothermal fields in New Zealand. 

ARANZ product initiatives result from listening to customers and identifying technology-based solutions that can be created to allow more efficient solutions with superior outcomes.