Manufacturing

Manufacturing excellence celebrated at annual awards
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
The people and businesses driving innovation, growth and resilience across New Zealand’s manufacturing sector have been recognised at the second annual Minister for Manufacturing Awards.
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Opinion: Manufacturing’s automation moment is here – now comes the workforce challenge
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
You lock up your warehouse at night, switch off the lights and press play on an autonomous drone. By morning, it has flown the aisles, scanned barcodes, completed stocktakes
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Mitigating unseen losses in large food packs
Wednesday, 03 June 2026
Efficiency is a key driver of profitability in the large format food processing sector.
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Leak-Master One – Every package matters
Wednesday, 03 June 2026
Leaky modified atmosphere packaging is one of the most common causes of quality loss, customer complaints and food waste in the food industry.
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Four reasons your manufacturing and logistics project is over budget and under-delivering
Wednesday, 03 June 2026
Most manufacturing and logistics technology investments don't fail at go-live.
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The Software-Defined Technician: Manufacturing's Next Human Capital Revolution
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
For the past several years, manufacturing leaders have obsessed over a single question: how do we capture the knowledge of our retiring experts before they walk out the door for the last time?
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Don’t discount the benefits of thermal pasteurisation
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Pasteurisation is a process which reduces the microbial load in many food products, ensuring consumer safety and prolonging shelf life
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BOC to build new multimillion-dollar Air Separation Unit in Christchurch
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
BOC has announced it will build a new multimillion-dollar air separation unit (ASU) in Christchurch to secure long-term industrial and medical gas supply across New Zealand.
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3D printed Conflux oil cooler
Wednesday, 01 April 2026
A 3D-printed, configurable transmission oil cooler from Conflux Technology has successfully completed a full-distance endurance race on a Multimatic
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World’s largest A/C firm to open multi-million dollar NZ facility
Wednesday, 18 March 2026
A multi-million-dollar Christchurch facility to be opened by the world’s largest air conditioning manufacturer will integrate upcycled climate-damaging refrigerant from end-of-life heat pumps into
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Kiwi manufacturers ended 2025 with a surge, signal confidence in 2026
Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Kiwi manufacturers closed out 2025 with a bang, recording a double-digit surge in sales revenue as the sector pivoted from survival-mode to growth, according to new data from inventory management s
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Reduce risks with automatic food metal detector testing
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Automatic and automated performance verifications for food metal detectors streamlines operations by saving time, reducing costs and labour, and minimising errors and workplace injuries at critical
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Splitting 2D Codes: A Smart Emerging Strategy for 2D Migration
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
2D codes are top of mind for virtually every company in the packaging industry – including Leibinger, a manufacturer of industrial marking systems.
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Introducing Engineering Projects
Tuesday, 03 March 2026
A 2024 study by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute predicts that nearly two m
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The Multi-Million dollar mistake: Why the technology business case Is not a strategy
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
For engineering and manufacturing leaders, the story is becoming uncomfortably familiar.
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