Production equipment supplier and manufacturer Suba Engineering has launched a new 360 degree vision version of its SubaScope visual inspection device. The SubaScope 2020 360 deg vision product, the latest in a range of locally made tools including optical microscopes and laser markers for electronics production, allows visual inspection of a product from all angles.…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
French defence group Thales has fired another round in its war with critics of buying defence good locally, with the release of a detailed economic analysis of how defence spending flows through to the national economy. The company, which came under fire in an auditor-general’s report which said armoured vehicles similar to its Hawkei vehicle…
Australian Bus Corporation and Dutch company Ebusco have announced a regional partnership that would ultimately see carbon fibre-bodied buses made in Australia.