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MP to meet ministry over 230 job losses at Kinleith Mill
The mill will cease all paper production before July 2025.

‘Stupendous amount’: $7.3b cost halts refinery reopening talks
Instead of a new refinery, Shane Jones is pushing for a Marsden Point energy precinct.

Steel & Tube buys Perry Metal Protection for $43.5m
Steel demand is at the lowest levels since the 1990s.

We must pick a side in AI arms race, Kiwi entrepreneur says
Drones, rockets, aircraft and ships can all be made in NZ, but will they get support?

‘Market turned down more quickly ... deeply’: Fletcher CEO on climbing losses
New CEO steps in as losses climb further: what next for the giant Australasian business?

Labour may ask gentailers to reinvest dividends in new generation
It says the suggested move by the partly Government-owned companies could reduce prices.

The untold story of NZ’s only aircraft manufacturer
NZAero's 70-year story of war, survival & exports.

Opinion: How to turbocharge manufacturing in New Zealand
The Government will need invest to help manufacturers embrace technology.

Bremworth secures $104.2m insurance payout after cyclone damage
Insurers have paid $62 million; the remaining $42.2 million is pending.

US bans imports from dozens of Chinese firms over 'forced labour'
Uyghur forced labour claims have consequences for mining, textiles and solar industries.

Ecostore worker's eyes permanently damaged in chemical accident
The Auckland factory worker was making dishwash powder.

Ho Chi Minh to Northcote: 'Southern Hemisphere's largest modular housing project'
'We see New Zealand as a long-term strategy.

Javier Milei’s next economic mission: affordable air fryers
Financial Times: Libertarian leader scraps tariffs to break open protectionist economy.

Woolworths seeks to acquire food manufacturer Beak and Johnston
Beak & Johnston make ready-made products such as soups and frozen meals.

He created a $660m company in his garage: Sistema richlister on standing firm with a famous name to retain ‘Made in NZ’
'I don’t care if it’s Martha Stewart or the bloody Pope. I’m not taking [Made in NZ] off.'

Recorp can-making boss Bruce Parton: What’s coming up in 2025
The way we drink - and drink out of - is going to be transformed.

Legislation, losers and lessons: Andrew Bayly’s 2024
Minister Andrew Bayly sat down with Tom Raynel to discuss his 2024, and what comes next.

France, Italy in push to scrap 2025 car emission fines
Fining carmakers counterproductive and no good for EV transition, French minister says.

'Low point' – new data to confirm NZ back in recession
Data due this Thursday will update the nation's third-quarter economic performance.

Jane Finlayson: Fixing manufacturing’s billion-dollar harm problem
OPINION: Harm in manufacturing has not decreased over the past 10 years.

Hawke's Bay's economic future relies heavily on six industries (and tourism isn't one): Report
Tourism has been left off a top-six list of industries to drive Hawke's Bay's economy.