Air New Zealand has teamed up with New Zealand company Zenith Tecnica to investigate 3D printed metal parts for aircraft and tools.

The annual Week of Engineering is happening next week with free expos in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on Saturday 18 August.

The war of tariffs kicked off by the Trump administration’s imposition of aluminium and steel duties earlier this year has put the squeeze on Canadian microbreweries, leading some to cut production for lack of aluminium beer cans.

Seventeen tonnes of almonds have successfully been shipped and tracked from Sunraysia in Victoria to Hamburg in Germany in a blockchain-based collaboration between Commonwealth Bank and five Australian and international supply chain participants.

New Zealand’s commercial market for drones is booming, largely thanks to a collaborative approach by its Civil Aviation Authority.

Patented as a plastic in the 1940s, polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, has become ubiquitous. Virtually shatterproof it offers an extremely high strength-to-weight ratio and does not react to food or water. Throw in its low production costs and you have an almost perfect packaging material – and we’ve not even touched on its uses for fabrics and textiles.

Witnesses say the small plane appeared to catch fire before entering a vertical dive and crashing into a cornfield near Budapest, Hungary. Just before the crash, the plane was flying at low altitude. Investigators have yet to determine the cause of the crash. The plane was semi-aerobatic, but it is unclear if the pilot was performing a maneuver at the time.

DS Smith has pledged to manufacture 100% reusable or recyclable packaging by 2025, and to use 100% recycled or chain of custody certified papers by 2020.

New University of Canterbury research has the potential to make it easier, faster and cheaper to launch a rocket, with wide-ranging benefits for other technology.

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