Nelson-based Pete’s Natural Lemonade has sent its first ever shipment overseas. Run by husband and wife duo, Pete and Marleen, the company produces all-natural drinks, made with 100 percent New Zealand ingredients.
If you talk on it, watch something on it, or are scanned by it, the chances are a Buckley Systems manufactured precision electro magnet has been used in its production.
Medifab, a New Zealand leader in providing specialised equipment for people with disabilities and medical difficulties, has won an international award for its new life-enhancing technology.
The good times continue to flow for New Zealand’s craft beer industry with sales up by 35% in the past year amid an ever growing thirst for big flavour beer, research from ANZ reveals.
Ports of Auckland will shortly start work to partially automate its container terminal. It will be the first New Zealand port and only the third straddle carrier terminal in the world to automate.
The brand new New Zealand Hub in Xi’an is designed to showcase Wellington and New Zealand produce, and provide a base of operations for New Zealand businesses looking to access the central Chinese market.
Ion implantation technology leader Buckley Systems has expanded locally, building on earlier expansion in North America as demand for its precision electromagnets continues to grow.
New Zealand’s largest vertically-integrated grower, packer and exporter of 25 percent of this country’s apples has taken a bold step to scientifically guarantee the integrity of its produce.
The first new space allocated for salmon in Marlborough in nine years has finally come on stream with the official opening of two new salmon farms operated by New Zealand King Salmon.
Maersk Line and supply chain company Kotahi are set to welcome the largest container ship to ever visit New Zealand waters, capable of carrying 9,500 TEU.
Smaller Māori businesses are stretching their nets to dozens of countries around the world as they come up with new ways to grow, says Statistics New Zealand.
New Zealand owned company ShapeShifter is producing computer aided design systems for manufacturers of some of the biggest global clothing brands in the world such as Nike and Adidas.
New Zealand’s tech sector is taking off as innovation, global connectedness and bandwidth obviate the country’s small size and global isolation, says outgoing NZTech chair Bennett Medary.
Following the UK’s referendum for Brexit, the New Zealand government should make trade negotiations with Britain a priority, says Dr Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative.
The tech industry, which includes hi-tech manufacturing, is now New Zealand’s third largest export sector and Christchurch is New Zealand’s second largest manufacturing centre.
