December’s Performance Manufacturing Index (PMI) showed that manufacturing ended the year in decent expansion territory, and new orders were strong, which bodes well for the start of 2019.

In this edition, we highlight a lot of good conferences coming up and there should be something for everyone, depending on your business.  If we want ‘talent led’ innovation we need to keep abreast of the latest knowledge. Also, it would be great to see all the women in manufacturing congregating at the leadership summit

Catherine Beard

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Waikato-based business Hansa has built a new outlet and manufacturing centre in the Northgate Business Park as demand for its products booms.

Starting in a honey shed at Ohaupo, Hansa has been manufacturing chippers and shredding equipment in New Zealand for more than 40 years and exporting to Australia for 25 years.

The company had outgrown its previous Hamilton premises and set about locating a new site.

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Neville Johnson, Director Enabling Services at New Zealand Government Procurement and Property (NZGPP) says the NZBN is the first major step in the digitisation journey for New Zealand. “There’s this key opportunity that presents itself to us and that’s around more efficient international trade. And it provides an opportunity to have that much more effective, simple, easy trade with different nations - both our major trading partners and those nations that we want to increase our level of trade with.

Your NZBN is a globally recognised number, (it’s called a Global Location Number - GLN) so when you use it, any business across the world can recognise you, and use your core business information when they’re interacting with you.

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Please note that WorkSafe New Zealand’s 10th Edition of the Workplace Exposure Standards and Biological Exposure Indices Special Guide was published in November 2018, and has been available online since that time. 

Changes to Exposure Standards
The majority of the recommended values that were proposed in the individual proposal documents were adopted, however, some values do differ from those recommended in the proposal documents that were made available online to stakeholders during the consultation phase.

(Three substances that were under review in 2018 remain under review - these are nitrogen dioxide (NO2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and synthetic mineral fibre (SMF).)

The main changes in the 10th Edition are signalled in the Preface and can be found here

The full report can be found here

The 2019 Theme for the Women in Manufacturing Leadership Summit is ‘Crafting a Powerful Purpose’.

A strong sense of purpose drives all that you do. Purpose sharpens your focus and helps you reach your true potential. It unlocks your capacity to innovate, overcome obstacles and pursue your ambitions.

We are bringing together inspiring industry leaders who will share their leadership stories and strategies for success. They will provide the advice and tools you need to unlock your true potential and discover a renewed sense of purpose as you continue your career journey. 

Q2 is the discount code for all Manufacturing NZ members to receive a discount

Connect 2019 will deliver an impressive line up of market-leading companies at the forefront of thought leadership in business, and their insights will be the ideas that shape our future. Featuring Google, Foodstuffs, Amazon and the Father of 'The Internet of Things’ Kevin Ashton

GS1 New Zealand also celebrates its’ 40th anniversary this year and looks back at how a small technological innovation had mammoth changes to the way the world does business and looks to the future innovations that are changing the business of tomorrow.

Register for Connect 2019 now!

Conference details
Date:  Thursday 11 April 2019
Venue:  Grand Millennium, Auckland
Time:  7am Registration for 7.30am Start
Agenda:  View the agenda

Your investment
Gala Breakfast and Conference package:
-  GS1 New Zealand Member: $359 + GST
-  GS1 New Zealand Non-member: $459 + GST

For more information about GS1 New Zealand's Connect 2019: eCommerce Innovation Summit and to register: 

The KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards is New Zealand’s premier event celebrating the achievements of individuals, teams, and organisations actively commercialising publicly funded research.

Research Commercialisation is about turning scientific discoveries made at New Zealand’s universities and Crown Research Institutes and Entities into innovative products and services that will grow our economy.

The KiwiNet awards celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of those who strive to bridge the gap between research excellence and outstanding business leadership.

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The conference hosted by High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge has confirmed four international keynote speakers.
Professor Rob Knight is the founding director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego and co-founder of the American Gut project.

Julian Mellentin is the founder of New Nutrition Business and is a consultant for a stellar array of the world’s major food and nutrition businesses.

Dr Jim Kaput is known as the father of the Systems Nutrition approach adopted by High-Value Nutrition. The approach takes a whole systems view of our nutrition, digestion and health. And the conference has just confirmed a fourth keynote, Professor Nicholas Talley, who in 2017 was named Australia’s most cited researcher by Google Scholar.

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