Bega Group will close its Griffith, Canberra dairy factory and move manufacture to the company’s Penrith, NSW site, citing inefficiencies in logistics due to a lack of dairy farms in the Australian Capital Territory. The move follows a review by Bega, which said the Griffith plant (formerly known as Capitol Chilled Foods) had been operating…
A new survey by market research firm Roy Morgan for the Australian Made Campaign has looked at the sentiments of consumers purchasing locally-made products, finding that six out of every seven shoppers said buying Australian products was important to them. Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine said that buying Australian-made created a strong emotional response for…
Caravan manufacturing in Australia has enjoyed its best sales since the 1970s, with 28,031 new units sold in Australia last year. A desire to reconnect with the outdoors drove sales of locally-made caravans to increase by 17.1 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year, while Australians also upped purchases of imports by 8.4…
Leading health bodies have backed calls for the banning of engineered stone commonly used in kitchens and bathrooms as well as industry which has been linked to the lung disease silicosis. The call came from a powerful group – The Lung Foundation Australia, Thoracic Society of Australia, Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine…
Australian rocket company Black Sky Aerospace (BSA) has successfully launched a prototype long-range training missile from the back of a privately owned Mercedes Benz Unimog truck. The 3.7 met long, 229mm diameter TM229 ‘Cyclone’ training missile was fired remotely from a custom weapon pod, all of which were manufactured in Australia, and mounted on the…
Industrial technology company Calix has announced that its subsidiary Leilac focusing on decarbonisation of cement and lime manufacture, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Heirloom, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company. The partnership between Leilac and Heirloom, whose investors include Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Microsoft, brings together two leading climate technologies…
