A United States based product developer, who is an MSC NewsWire subscriber, is looking for a company to manufacture  a product, namely a doorstop that they have designed.    Interested parties should contact us here at MSCNewsWire on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before  Friday 9 September 2016.          

The Holcim Cement Works at Cape Foulwind Westport, which is now closed.  A $250 million waste to energy plant proposed for the West Coast would burn rubbish collected from around the South Island.  Buller mayor Garry Howard said the plant could be the key to reviving the West Coast economy.  He was confident a private company could set up a high-tech plant in Buller converting the South Island's rubbish into electricity. Continue to full article in The Press      

Businesses not only depend on the world’s precious stock of natural capital assets, they can also impact them, and there are risks and opportunities involved in this dynamic. By making nature visible in business decisions through measuring and valuing it as a form of capital, businesses can not only contribute to its sustainable management but enjoy associated benefits suchas competitive advantage, increased resilience, greater transparency, supply chain security and a deeper understanding of the risks to business continuity. Continue to full article

Kiwi-born tech pioneer Ian Wright has a simple vision: he wants to rid garbage trucks of diesel motors within five years. Wright is the founder of Wrightspeed Inc, a manufacturer of range-extended electric vehicle powertrains, which has a $US43 million deal with Infratil-owned NZ Bus to retrofit existing and new buses with its electric powertrains to replace conventional piston engine and transmission systems. Continue to full article

Sorted Logistics has signed up with Southpark Corporation which will develop a $20 million modern warehouse at Waterloo Business Park in Christchurch.  Sorted will move all its operations from nine sites around Wigram, Hornby and Middleton to the new 12,300-square metre facility next year. It had its genesis in the 2011 earthquakes when Kris and Sarah Webster had to relocate their gumboot, shoe and apron manufacturing business, Sandford Industries (2010) after their building was damaged. Continue to full article      

The arrival of a ship with capacity for nearly 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units is one of the most concrete payoffs from Tauranga's $350 million five-year investment program to boost capacity and productivity. The Aotea Maersk will become the largest container ship ever to visit New Zealand when it calls at Tauranga on Oct. 4 as the port nears the end of a $350 million investment plan that has enabled its terminals to handle larger vessels. Aotea Maersk's capacity of 9,640 twenty-foot-equivalent units will dwarf the 5,000-TEU ships that are at the upper end of the vessels currently operating on New Zealand…

A survey of Australian and New Zealand business executives has revealed that a full quarter of organisations collect data, but don’t analyse it. If data really is the new oil, it seems a shocking waste of resources. In fact only 39 percent of respondents to the survey, commissioned by data warehousing and analytics company Teradata, said that they were using real time analytics, and an even scanter 15 percent said that they considered themselves “data centric” in that they constantly analysed data in real time to aid decision making. It’s an issue which has been called out by a data…

A recent Treasury report showed the 90-day Trial Period has failed to create more jobs. Instead, it has caused more problems for small business people, say Max Whitehead, CEO of the Small Business Voice. "The government and Business NZ promised that the 90-day trial period would get young people into jobs - employers would be less fearful of having unjustified dismissals against them," says Mr Whitehead, "However, Treasury now says there has been no increase as promised. Instead, there have been a massive 564 employment law cases regarding the 90-day trial period." "John Key says everyone he talks to thinks…

Callaghan Innovation and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise are busy planning an innovation mission to the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is being held 5-8 January 2017 in Las Vegas. We want to take 15 companies with us - could one of these be you?  In allocating the available co-funding, priority will be given to earlier stage companies who would not otherwise be able to attend. Expressions of interest close this Friday the 2nd of September 2016 Continue for more information and conatct details    

Colorado's  Air Academy High School students Blake Danis and Hannah Peters began their senior engineering class with a problem and ended it with a business: Castanova Fishing Nets. The nets, which are spring-loaded to extend at the press of a button, will be the first of their kind once produced, Danis said. The class is part of Project Lead the Way, a national nonprofit that is meant to give students a more realistic education in engineering, biomedical science or computer science and prepare them for the workforce. Danis and Peters said it's thanks to their teacher, Jason Buhler, that they…

Christchurch-based Challenge Steel has appointed two new directors as it prepares to increase imported volumes of fabricated steel from China.  At the same time, a liquidator's report has been filed over an unrelated failed steel fabricator Elphinstone & Morris set up just two years ago. Continue to full article