New Zealand: Winstone Wallboards has started despatching wallboard produced at its new Tauranga plant around New Zealand’s North Island. General manager David Thomas said that GIB wallboard products made in the new plant had achieved performance levels consistent with those of wallboard made in the company’s Auckland and Christchurch plants. Earlier in August 2023, Ross Taylor, the chief executive officer of Fletcher Building, Winstone Wallboards’ parent company, said that the Tauranga plant had commenced production. The site is scheduled to become fully operational by the end of October 2023.