Any weakening in the New Zealand dollar would provide the "cream on top" for medical device exporter Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.

One of New Zealand's biggest unions yesterday voiced redundancy fears for Pacific Steel Group workers.

Manufacturing activity expanded for a 16th straight month in January, driven by new orders and production.

A local icecream firm won't rely on foreign contract manufacturers or long-range shipping when it expands overseas this year.

Toyota Australia has completed the demise of the Australian car industry, saying it will stop building cars in that country by the end of 2017.

At 49 years old, Glenn Bratton didn't expect to be looking for a new career.

New Zealand's unemployment rate fell to a three-year low in the fourth quarter of 2013 as jobs growth beat expectations.

US labour leaders are closing in on a decades-long goal of organising a factory run by a foreign car-maker, thanks to a bridgehead opened up at Volkswagen.

NZ's biggest toilet paper supplier expects a $60m upgrade of its Bay of Plenty manufacturing facility to fight competition from growing Asian imports.

Sanitarium's much-publicised Marmite shortage failed to stop the food manufacturer's owner, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, from reporting a rise in revenue for its tax-free NZ businesses in the last financial year.

The Government has defended its decision to award an $8 million ferry contract to a Bangladesh company rather than a local boat builder.

Govt defends decision to award $8m ferry contract to a Bangladesh firm

An Auckland firm says an investment in new machinery will help keep manufacturing work in New Zealand.

A multimillion-dollar claim brought by the Ministry of Education over leaky schools has been settled.

Up to 50,000 jobs are at risk as General Motors says it will stop making Holdens in Australia by the end of 2017.

GM looks set to shut down its Holden plants in Australia from 2016, joining Ford in pulling out of the country.

New Zealand manufacturers are increasingly moving offshore to stay afloat, but there are other options, says Steve Nicholson

Iain Hosie reckons his company is a good example of the kind of manufacturing that can thrive in New Zealand.

NZ's unemployment rate slipped to 6.2 per cent in the three months ended September 30 just below the 6.3 per cent forecast.

Nuplex Industries has begun construction of its third manufacturing facility in China, which is expected to help the speciality chemicals and resins manufacturer overcome capacity constraints.