Palmerston North Service Centre has moved!

June 2024

We are pleased to announce that we have relocated our Palmerston North Service Centre to 667 Tremaine Avenue. Although our address has changed, we continue to offer the same excellent service to our customers.

With our dedicated, highly skilled team often on the road, this Service Centre may not always be manned during business hours. Please call or email our team in advance with your service or repair requirements, and we will organise a time for you to drop in to our Service Centre.

We have engineers based across the wider Palmerston North area.Our Palmerston North team is available to provide the highest quality breakdown recovery and emergency air services, 24/7. Our customers are supported by a nationwide sales, distribution, and service network, ensuring that products are running at maximum efficiency and with minimum downtime at their sites.

More than 9,500 businesses across New Zealand trust us to set up, upgrade, and maintain their compressed air and vacuum systems. Since 1979, we have helped our customers save costs, improve performance, and achieve maximum efficiency.

Across the country, we have a highly skilled team of trained technicians and a stocked parts distribution centre to respond to your needs around the clock. Our products include compressed air, vacuum pumps and gas equipment, construction equipment, portable compressors and light compaction equipment sales, industrial tools, and full on-site solutions.

For your Trade Shop enquiries and orders, please browse our Online Shop. Shop online for quality air compressors, fittings, air tools, air regulators, pressure switches, and maintenance kits. Secure payment with Afterpay, charge to your Trade Account, credit card, or bank transfer, and nationwide delivery.

Anytime, you can count on us.



If you have any questions or would like to speak to the Ash Air Palmerston North team, please contact us using the details below.

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About Ash Air: 

Ash Air has been around in New Zealand since 1979, and we’ve grown into a nationwide company with international support and a reputation for quality and reliability. We look after all things compressed air for your business!

  • Reciprocating, rotary screw air compressors
  • Vacuum pumps and blowers
  • Nitrogen Generation
  • An extensive line of air treatment components



Our technicians are compressed air equipment experts and are dedicated to addressing customer needs.  Ash Air offers one of the widest selections of compressed air equipment and parts available today in New Zealand.

Reliability and Efficiency

With Ash Air compressors, you can count on reliability and high performance for even the most demanding applications. We focus our efforts on the following:

  • Increasing uptime
  • Reducing unexpected repairs
  • Reducing energy consumption
  • Improving the cleanliness of compressed air

Ash Air's range of Chicago Pneumatic, Alup air compressors, Pneumatech industrial gases and Atlas Copco vacuum pumps are used extensively around the world in industries ranging from oil and gas to food, automotive and farming.




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Celebrate International Women's Day with the Ash Air team on March 8th, where we recognise the importance of contributing to forging a better working world - a more inclusive, gender equal world. Ash Air is an equal opportunity employer and has female representation across the entire company. Ash Air has representation in our National Warehouse, Branches and Head Office locations with administrators, accounts, schedulers, sales and service engineers, and managers roles throughout the country. Here we talk to Maryam, our new Sales Engineer for Bay of Plenty region! …


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Here Jess, an Ash Air Service Engineer, kindly spoke to us about navigating the industry as a women amongst men, and how to get more young women choosing Engineering fields as their career. At Ash Air we break the stereotypes, and firmly trust the power of our women, gender diversity and equality. We have a 30% female workforce in effect, with representation in all areas of our operations: warehousing, administrators, finance, logistics and planning, management, as well as sales and service engineers.  …


🎄✨ To give thanks to the incredible Ash Air team for their dedication and hard work through the year, we recognise this throughout the country with Christmas get-togethers. This year was one for the books! It was the first time we brought together as many of the Ash Air family as possible, for an unforgettable Christmas in the Park Family Event! 🎉 …


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Here at Ash Air, we are proud to be opportunity employer. Infact, we have 30% female representation across the entire company. For a male dominated industry, we're very proud of this. Ash Air has representation in our National Warehouse, Branches and Head Office locations with administrators, accounts, schedulers, sales and service engineers, and managers roles throughout the country. …

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