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A growth-focused future: An industry forecast
The coming years promise acceleration for the metals industry both here in New Zealand and globally. In 2024, The Business Research Company forecast a compound annual growth rate of c. 6% for the global metals market through 2025. Increased urbanisation is fuelling a global construction boom – one that requires quality raw materials, supply chain…
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A new Minister of Small Business and Manufacturing
Metals NZ congratulates Chris Penk MP on his well-deserved appointment as Minister of Small Business and Manufacturing. New Zealand’s manufacturing footprint has reduced in recent decades, which has impacted on the sector’s ability to employ people and make a greater contribution to GDP. A strong manufacturing sector is vital to the wider economy and to…
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Building (Overseas Building Products, Standards, and Certification Schemes) Amendment Bill. Metals NZ submission.
Those considering the recent Building Amendment Bill must be cognisant of a wide range of different factors as it makes its way through legislative process. Within any assessment for potential change there must be a balance struck, one that is as much about precision as it is pragmatism. Achieving this balance requires an understanding…
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The future’s arriving faster
New Zealand Steel has advised that it is bringing the start of commissioning forward for its $300 million electric arc furnace. With civil works well underway this date will now be in 2025, rather than the earlier projection of 2026. It’s not the only big news for the Metals NZ member. The design phase has concluded that,…
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Emissions Reduction Plan (2026-2030) submission
Does the second emissions reduction plan discussion document see the big picture of cause and effect in reducing emissions? And does it do so in a way that is actionable in the short term and effective in the long term? Given its focus (metaphorically) on the trees over the forest, we’re not sure it does.…
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An industry introduction
At the start of 2024, Metals NZ sent an introductory document to the Minister for Building and Construction. The BIM provided further insight into how a coordinated and collaborative effort will ensure New Zealand can achieve a truly sustainable future. Download the BIM here.
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Lifetime carbon true measure of building emissions
The building industry needs to move away from carbon saving calculations focused on embodied carbon only and instead focus on lifetime carbon emissions for a true representation of emissions. This is part of the response from Metals NZ Chief Executive Rick Osbourne to an apartment developer’s claims of carbon savings from using timber versus concrete…
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Consultation opens for draft Advanced Manufacturing Industry Transformation Plan (ITP)
Public consultation on the draft Advanced Manufacturing Industry Transformation Plan (ITP) opens on 1 June 2022. The ITP is designed to fast track the growth and transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s advanced manufacturing sector. The sector already: Employs 10.7 per cent of the workforce (248,400 people) Accounts for 10 per cent of GDP ($24.1 billion)…
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It’s tough making predictions, especially about the future
CEO Rick Osborne updates the Australian steel sector on what’s happening in New Zealand. This piece ran in the December 2021 edition of the Australian Steel News (page 6) The Climate Change Response Act 2002 requires the New Zealand government to publish an emissions reduction plan by 31 May, 2022 setting out how the country…
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Metals NZ welcomes our new CEO
Media release 3 November 2021 Metals New Zealand is pleased to announce the appointment of Rick Osborne as the new Chief Executive. Rick has a track record of executive leadership roles in large, complex organisations including Telecom, Fonterra, Air New Zealand, Fletcher Building and most recently, Head of Commercial and Corporate Affairs, Māori Television. A…