Our editorial series Celebrating Australian Made, coinciding with Australian Made Week, turns to something all Australians want – a good night’s rest on a great bed. Here Nicholas Way profiles Sealy Australia which has been giving us just that since the 1920s. The bed manufacturing industry is one of Australia’s success stories. Unlike many other…
To close out the first week of Celebrating Australian Made, our editorial series sponsored by the Australian Made Campaign Limited, we consider Kilmaille Knits. Brent Balinski speaks to founder Sue McClure. Sue and Malcolm McClure are fifth-generation wool growers, with mothers and grandmothers who were passionate knitters. “Synthetics sort of came in during my childhood,”…
Corvus Technology Solutions names new GM Corvus Technology Solutions (CTS) announced the appointment of Nick Williams as General Manager this week, effective immediately. Williams joins the company as it enters “its next phase of growth and will play a key role in the Corvus’ ongoing partnership with Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA)” which is among the…
Poker machine manufacturer and online gaming company Aristocrat Leisure has shrugged off economic headwinds to post strong revenue and profit gains in the six months to 31 March, 2023. The Sydney company reported net profit after tax and before amortisation (NPATA) up 14 percent on the previous corresponding period of $659 million. This reflected in…
Today in our editorial series Celebrating Australian Made, coinciding with Australian Made Week, we look at how steel producers are moving to embrace green steel production technologies which will flow through to the entire steel value chain, including numerous Australian Made licensees. By John Noonan Europe introduces a carbon border tax in 2026, but will…
SPEE3D has been named a winner at the recent US Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology (OSD ManTech) “Point of Need Challenge”. SPEE3D is an Australian-based company specialising in cold spray additive manufacturing technology. This uses metal particles shot out of a nozzle at supersonic speeds, fusing together to build near-net shape components.…
International Graphite has selected the preferred site for its proposed graphite battery anode material (BAM) facility at the former coal mining city of Collie in Western Australia. The Company has signed an exclusive non-binding memorandum of understanding to negotiate a lease over approximately 20 hectares of privately owned land in the Coolangatta industrial precinct (pictured,…
The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) and not-for-profit standards organisation GS1 Australia have collaborated to assist APCO Members with increasingly complex annual sustainability reporting. The partnership sees more than half of APCO Annual reporting questions incorporated into the GS1 National Packaging Catalogue (NPC) database, providing a solution for APCO Members to actively track progress towards…
