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Daily Archives: June 3, 2020

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Morrison’s VET reforms offer the same old promises, with no more money

Manufacturing NewsBy EditorJune 3, 2020Leave a comment

Prime Scott Morrison last week outlined a plan to create jobs and revitalise the economy post COVID-19. Part of this so-called Jobmaker plan includes an overhaul of the “bewildering”, “unresponsive” and “fundamentally flawed” skills sector.

Swinburne, LPI work together to build better lightning protection products

Manufacturing NewsBy EditorJune 3, 2020Leave a comment

Swinburne University researchers and Lightning Protection International will collaborate on the development of new materials, to be used in products designed to keep structures safe from lightning strikes.

Townsville clears way forward for mega battery factory

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsJune 3, 2020Leave a comment

Townsville City Council has formally adopted amendments to its planning scheme, clearing the way for the mega lithium-ion battery cell factory being developed by Magnis Energy Technologies. The amendment clears the way for the Imperium3 consortium which will build the 18 GWh plant, known as iM3TSV, to lodge a development application, expected within months. Engineer…

First Graphene to supply swimming pool manufacturer

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsJune 3, 20201 Comment

Graphene products supplier First Graphene will supply its pureGRAPH powders for incorporation into fibreglass laminates used to manufacture swimming pools. The Perth company has signed a two-year agreement with Aquatic Leisure Technologies to provide the material to be used in a new range of pools planned by the company. The two companies have worked together…

Reshoring takes off as manufacturers risk-proof supply chains

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsJune 3, 20204 Comments

Our campaign to crowd source a new deal plan for manufacturing highlighted the vital role to be played by onshoring manufacturing operations. In this three-part series, we look at how the re-shoring trend is developing. By Peter Roberts. In a small factory at Gillman in the heart of a traditional Adelaide industrial precinct, a quiet…

Reshoring depends on total rethink of manufacturing’s role by Peter Vaughan

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsJune 3, 20202 Comments

For reshoring to take place on a large scale there needs to be a serious recasting of the role of manufacturing in Australia, and new ways of having SME manufacturer voices heard by policymakers and the public, argues Peter Vaughan in the second of our series on reshoring. It has become a time-honoured cliché of…

How one Auckland company has survived to fight another day

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter RobertsJune 3, 20202 Comments

This the third in our series on the importance of onshoring manufacturing operations looks at how Australia and New Zealand lost, and are now regaining, industrial capabilities. Here Peter Roberts looks at the core element of many manufactures – printed circuit boards. Richard Brady and Daniel Baxter have seen Australia and New Zealand’s capacity to…

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