Best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing Companies in New Zealand
The 69 best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: OjiFS.
Our analysis of 431 Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies
$22.6b in tracked funding; 74% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OjiFS Pulp, paper and fibre based packaging manufacturer | $312M | 146 mo ago | Late Stage | Jon Ryder Founder & Co-CEO | 2014 | SanityApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+13 | — | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Foundry Lab Production of metal parts using digital metal casting | $22M | 11 mo ago | Series B | — | 2018 | WebflowVimeoTypekit+14 | 19 patents Additive manufacturing of metal casting molds and related casting processes | 3 expansions |
| 3 | Noissue Platform offering customized tissue paper printing | $10M | 55 mo ago | Series A | Auguste Gruar Co-Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityContentfulSentry+35 | — | — |
| 4 | Mushroom Material Manufacturer of sustainable packaging products | $5M | 22 mo ago | Seed | Jotinder Singh Co-Founder & COO | 2020 | — | — | 1 award |
| 5 | The Better Packaging Provider of reusable package solutions for eCommerce business | $5M | 35 mo ago | Series A | Kate Bezar Co-Founder | 2001 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyPlyr+36 | — | — |
| 6 | WoolWorks Provider of wool scouring service | — | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | Tony Cunningham CEO | 2000 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+9 | — | — |
| 7 | Accord Manufacturer of advanced machined metal components and precision parts | — | — | Acquired | Alec Mandis CEO | 1980 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Alain Brideson Devoted to Industrial Design. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Top 6 Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in New Zealand
#1
Series B · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2018 · 16 employees$21.7Mraised▾
Production of metal parts using digital metal casting. It offers manufacturers control over production, timelines, and innovation. It enables rapid on-site part casting to keep production schedules on track and reduce dependency on complex supply chains. It facilitates prototyping and short-run production, avoiding tooling expenses and ensuring parts are fit for purpose.
- Jul 2025Series B$9.7M
- Jan 2025Series B$12M
#2
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2020 · 3 employees$5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of sustainable packaging products. It designs, manufactures, and supplies mushroom-based packaging material. It uses a combination of mycelium and fibrous agricultural waste. Other features include biodegradable, fire-resistant, and waterproof packaging materials.
- Aug 2024Seed$5M
#3
Late Stage · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2014 · 771 employees$311.8Mraised▾
Oji Fibre Solutions is a producer of pulp, paper and fibre based packaging. Products include cardbaord packagings, paper bag, paper cups and containerboards(under the brand name Higold, Graphix, Ecokraft, Climate and Ecoflex). Also provides services such as integrated and inter-modal logistics, shipping services and domestic transport.
- Apr 2014PE$311.8M
#4
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2001 · 16 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of reusable package solutions for eCommerce business. The platform offers mailers, labels, poly bags & ziplock, magazine wrapping, bubble bags, and more.
- Jul 2023Series A$5M
#5
Series A · Auckland · founded 2017 · 61 employees$10Mraised▾
Noissue is a platform offering customized tissue paper printing. The platform helps the users to design their own customized tissue paper with the brand's logo online. By uploading the logo and design in real-time. It also offers stickers, tapes, stamps, cards, and more. The company offers free shipping worldwide.
- Nov 2021Series A$10M
#6
Funding Raised · Napier, Hawke s Bay · founded 2000—raised▾
Woolworks is a wool scouring service provider based in Napier, New Zealand. They operate the largest wool scouring facility in the world and focus on eco-friendly operations.
- Oct 2019Unattributed—
- 2010Unattributed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Industrial Goods and Manufacturing coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 213 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- University of Auckland59
- Auckland University of Technology34
- Massey University27
- Ministry of Education26
- University of Otago17
- 3d printed1→4
- 3d printed3→17
- Composite material5→14
- Mechanical engineering2→7
- Selective laser melting3→7
- Nanotechnology3→6
- Mechanical engineering5
- Manufacturing engineering4
- Selective laser melting4
- Biomedical engineering3
- Tissue engineering3
Where additive manufacturing is researched across New Zealand
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.