Transport equipment and machinery manufacturing has reached a seven year high in sales volumes, Stats NZ says.
The booming sector is helping push the total volume of manufacturing up 1.4% in the March 2018 quarter.
Nine of the 13 manufacturing industries had sales rises in the March 2018 quarter.
The largest movements were transport equipment and machinery manufacturing, up 6%, and meat and dairy product manufacturing, up 2.2%.
The value of manufacturing sales was $27.4 billion in the March 2018 quarter, up $1.8 billion from the March 2017 quarter.
Manufacturing statistics manager Sue Chapman says the rise in transport equipment and machinery manufacturing follows a fall in the previous December quarter.
“The latest rise is the largest since March 2011, and the fourth-largest rise since the series began,” she says.
