The Thriving in Manufacturing project is an ACC-supported pilot helping manufacturing businesses to identify work-related risks to their employees’ mental health, and to work with employees to redesign work to eliminate or minimise those risks. It also helps businesses identify factors at work that support employees’ mental health so these factors can be maintained and enhanced.
Signs of life | October 2025
New Zealand’s manufacturing sector showed increased expansion during October, according to the latest BNZ – BusinessNZ Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI). The seasonally adjusted PMI for October was 51.4 (a PMI reading above 50.0 indicates that manufacturing is...

