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Daily Archives: August 5, 2019

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Recycled plastic sleepers laid near Wyndham Vale in Victoria

Manufacturing NewsBy EditorAugust 5, 20191 Comment

In a first for Victoria, 200 recycled plastic sleepers have been installed for use by the state’s regional V/Line trains.

Managing Innovation – finding the right balance

Manufacturing NewsBy EditorAugust 5, 2019Leave a comment

Innovation can be defined as the creation of value through implementing new or enhanced products, services, processes, technologies, or organisational methods and business models.

Mapping magnesium: materials engineer discusses alloy breakthrough

Analysis and Commentary, Features, Manufacturing News, TechnologyBy Brent BalinskiAugust 5, 2019Leave a comment

Professor Jian-Feng Nie of Monash University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering led a recent discovery for magnesium alloys. He shares some context for the results with Brent Balinski.

Leading brewer eyes thermal energy storage system

Features, Manufacturing NewsBy EditorAugust 5, 20191 Comment

One of Australia’s leading craft breweries is looking to a cutting edge thermal energy storage system to provide the heat required to make its beer.

Australia is no innovation nation, in fact we are all talk

Analysis and Commentary, Features, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsAugust 5, 20192 Comments

Comment by Peter Roberts Australia has had numerous prime ministers from Bob Hawke to Malcolm Turnbull who have boasted about us being an ‘innovation nation’. But this is a classic case of promoting one of your weakest points to try to avoid scrutiny – in fact Australia has never been, and is not even remotely…

Gilmour Space Technologies rocket fails to launch

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsAugust 5, 20192 Comments

Gilmour Space Technologies has failed in its’ latest attempt to launch its One Vision suborbital test rocket from a mobile launch site in outback Queensland. CEO Adam Gilmour said on the weekend in a letter to investors that seven seconds before launch the test rocket suffered an anomaly that resulted in the premature end of…

Kimberly-Clark closes its Australian Huggies factory

Features, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsAugust 5, 2019Leave a comment

Kimberly-Clark Australia has quietly closed its Ingleburn, Sydney plant which has produced its popular Huggies nappies since 1988. The factory was promoted by the US group as a poster boy of local investment and advanced people management techniques, and produced one billion nappies annually, making it a rare example of local mass production. The factory…

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