Huge tanks destined for Blenheim winery

Four large wine blending tanks are being built in Blenheim and transported to a winery in three sections because they are too big to be trucked as a finished product. Crown Sheet Metals is building the 500,000 litre tanks for Drylands Winery, in Blenheim, over the next two months. Crown Sheet Metals site manager Crichton Purdie said the 11-metre high by 9-metre wide stainless steel tanks were too big to fit on a truck in one piece so were being trucked in three sections before being assembled on site at Drylands.