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When is government going to start to value local manufacturing?

3 December 2024

When are we going to see government realise the value of local manufacturing and start supporting our businesses and their employees?

As we watch yet another long-running New Zealand manufacturing business disappear with the likely closure of the Whakatane wood processing mill – yet another in a long line of plant closures in the last two years – manufacturers are questioning the Government’s attitude and lack of action.

[The following comment piece ran in the National Business Review, 13 March 2021]

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