HERA honours Hon Jim Anderton – a battler for NZ manufacturing
Former Deputy PM Jim Anderton left a great mark on New Zealand and held several key positions that greatly influenced NZ politics. For our industry, it was his role as…
Leading triple bottom line in New Zealand’s outback – Calder Stewart Steel, Milton
Some may recall that Calder Stewart Steel was the winner of the prestigious industry excellence award ‘Metals Industry Innovator of the Year’ at the 2015 Metals Industry Conference. Achieving this by…
Opportunities don’t fall from trees. You create them.
Mahatma Gandhi once stated, ‘The future depends on what we do in the present.’ Obvious, yet so profound. Its connotations have far reaching implications for how we think about our…
Welcome to the driver’s seat Jacinda – but are you still driving the same car?
Now we have a new government – we have a left of center mix of policies. Which on first principle should be building innovative, high value local manufacturing with the…
Get off the grass, think and vote
The election race is tight and every vote will count. Our director reviews the most important policy relating to our industry’s contribution to creating a prosperous New Zealand. And our…
Two industry closures send a stern reminder
For many, the sudden closures of engineering icon A&G Price in Thames and AMTEC Engineering in New Plymouth came like a bolt out of the blue. But for some, it…
Research partnership fails to ignite industry buy in
As an avid reader of our news updates you’ll be aware of the unique opportunity we offered to leverage significant government co-funding for research activities through our Research Partnership Proposal.…
There’s an art to picking the right turbo-expander technology for your project
Turbines and volumetric expanders are the most common devices used for energy conversion of fluid heat into mechanical energy. However its numerous applications in power generation, and across a range…
LanzaTech: the one fish that shouldn’t have got away
Remember LanzaTech? The New Zealand bio fuel R&D start-up which invented a process to convert carbon-rich gases from steel mills to create the ethanol base of their fuel Lanzanol. Probably…
Innovation and risk clearly won us the America’s Cup
If you’re like a few other million ‘bleary eyed’ Kiwi’s – you’re still in the throes of recovering from a series of early mornings spent clambering to the TV screen…
Channeling the spirit of disruptive innovation
How often have you heard someone in your work circles say “Nowadays we don’t see work more than two to three weeks ahead” or “Since major contracts have started finishing,…
Are you productive enough?
For our heavy engineering industry, productivity has a direct bearing on how we are performing not only as a company but as a sector, which is why keeping an eye…