The first RAM 1500 has come off the Australian production line where the legendary American truck is being remanufactured into right hand drive and it was driven straight into a container heading for the Fieldays at Hamilton and its New Zealand launch on 13 June 2018.

At the wheel of the very first RAM 1500 was Roger Zagorski, the Managing Director of Australia’s official factory appointed RAM importer and distributor, the Ateco Group.

Thirty seven representatives from twenty six New Zealand and four Australian manufacturing companies, two business organisations (The Manufacturers’ Network and the EMA) and two government funded innovation agencies (Callaghan Innovation and the Australian IMCRC) have all combined into a study group to investigate advanced manufacturing technology at the Internet of Manufacturing Conference in Chicago and through visits to a number of U.S manufacturing companies.

Rod Oram asks whether Fonterra should be broken up and why it needs a new chairman and strategy

A Kiwi charity founded by a former Young New Zealander of the Year is starting a recruitment agency specifically for millennials.

Dunedin-based Scott Technology has completed its purchase of US automated guided warehousing vehicle manufacturer Transbotics Corpreports the ODT but yet to disclose purchase preice.

REM Systems is being bought by Australia's Paragon Care for $54.4 million, through a mix of cash and shares.

Colombia is the latest country to seek admission to the trans-Pacific trade pact, the CPTPP, which US President Donald Trump tried to kill off

On June 9 it will be 15 years since the fifth New Zealand Labour Government ratified Convention 98 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Forestry Minister Shane Jones and Climate Change Minister James Shaw have released a consultation paper proposing 12 improvements to forestry regulations in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS).

Farmers, tourism operators and everyone else better hope the Government doesn't have another bad political month wrote This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in the NZHerald earlier today.