Apr 17 - A comprehensive report on New Zealand’s manufacturing sector signals some of the strengths and challenges facing the sector at present.

Apr 17 -  Twenty-seven years after the Porter Project recommended New Zealand should pursue a "clusters" strategy to develop its manufacturing base, a government study of the manufacturing sector has found there are "few economically significant manufacturing clusters in New Zealand".

Adelaide's Seeley International has completed the world’s largest order for evaporative air conditioners, with 50,000 Breezair units installed in the tent city of Mina Valley, Saudi Arabia.

The Hamilton dairy biotech company Quantec won the supreme award at the recent Natural Health Products NZ annual awards in Nelson.

Apr 05, 2018  - New Zealand carpet maker Cavalier Corp is emerging from a “tough” period after an influx of cheaper synthetics forced it to restructure its business to compete. It has now streamlined its operations and with most of the pain now behind it, is stepping up investment in innovation and marketing as it eyes rising consumer demand for natural woollen products.

When is a forklift not a forklift? When it’s an electro/hydraulic wireless-controlled standalone, multi-directional, 28-tonne Cometto payload platform — that’s when.

 Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company co-founded by former New Zealand soccer star Tim Brown, has expanded into Canada, its fourth global market.

Mar 29, 2018  -   Rakon has sold its former manufacturing site in France for 2.7 million euros, as it continues to shift its manufacturing focus to India

Mar 27, 2018  -  The EMA is urging business to submit on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill this week before the close off date of March 30.

A short time ago the very first wind power turbines in Finland were dismantled. Much of the material is easy to recycle – mostly steel. But the blades are made with thermoset FRPs that have so far been considered unrecyclable.