Double honours at hi-tech awards for Mindhive Global
27/05/2025
The company won the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Most Innovative Hi-Tech Agritech Solution Award for its system that uses digital mapping and data analytics to improve the quality and traceability of cowhides. The technology enables processors to produce leather more efficiently by providing high-resolution, verifiable data for each hide, helping to make use of material that would otherwise be treated as waste.
Mindhive also won the Punakaiki Fund Hi-Tech Startup Company of the Year Award. This award acknowledged the company’s development of a vision system that uses machine learning and image recognition to identify more than 25 types of defects in hides within seconds. The system is designed to replace manual inspection methods with an automated, consistent process.
According to organisers, the company’s approach has attracted interest from participants at different stages of the leather value chain, including processors and designers.
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