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With U.S. levies on $200 billion of Chinese products set to balloon to 25% in 2019, companies on the mainland making everything from car parts to cameras are lining up other production facilities across Southeast Asia reports Angus Whitley for IndustryWeek.

Cerebos Australia and New Zealand is part of Cerebos Pacific Limited, and is wholly owned by Japanese global food and beverage group, Suntory Limited. In 1925, Cerebos Limited of England set up an Australian branch to directly market Cerebos salts and Bisto gravy powder in Australia.

Along with a growing number of businesses requesting more ethical workforce solutions and evidence of loopholes in labour-hire law that allows the gross exploitation of hard-working New Zealanders, FIRST Union, the largest union representing labour-hire workers, is pleased to announce labour-hire firm Enterprise Recruitment has signed on as the first company to be an ethical employer in the labour-hire workspace.

A new initiative is aiming to get more Kiwi girls interested in digital technology and ultimately challenge societal perceptions of women in STEM. By Raewyn Court.

25 Oct:1500  |   Farra Engineering have completed a strategic review of their business and have decided to move from six separate operating businesses to one company.

Over 700 secondary school students are being recognised for their new skills gained through the EIT Schools Trades Academy in Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne over the coming fortnight.

Richina, the Chinese parent company of failed New Zealand construction company Mainzeal, owns assets potentially worth billions of dollars, according to information from the ongoing High Court hearing in Auckland reports Nikki Mandow for Newsroom.

Transmission Gully’s Cannons Creek Bridge is one of the project’s most significant structures. In coming months this huge structure will reach a major milestone when the spans are “launched” across the Cannons Creek Gorge to eventually sit on the bridge piers that are currently being completed.

NZManufacturer October 2018 edition released today

The new distillery for luxury whisky brand The Macallan has installed a variety of Flowcrete floors to create surfaces that would reflect its visual identity and maintain the functional properties required to produce this iconic Scottish spirit.