Manufacturing activity is back in contractionary territory, according to the quarterly ACCI-Westpac Survey of Industrial Trends, reflecting “broad-based softness across output, new orders and [the] labour market”. According to a statement from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday, the Actual Composite result in the survey slipped from 51.5 in Q2 to 48.8…
Haigh’s Chocolates, the 110-year-old, family-owned maker of premium chocolate products, has officially opened its new $120 million, 18,000 square metre facility at Adelaide’s Salisbury South. Construction of the new production, warehouse and online fulfillment facility was announced in late-2023. The now-opened site represents the company’s biggest-ever single investment, is currently producing 1,100 tonnes of chocolate…
Australian researchers have identified “a new kind of carbon-based material” allowing supercapacitors to store as much energy as lead-acid batteries while also performing better than conventional batteries at delivering power quickly. According to a statement from the university on Tuesday, the results are “a major leap forward” for fast, powerful energy storage devices, and are…
Ground has been broken on DHL Supply Chain Australia’s upcoming transport and warehousing facility at Edinburgh Park, South Australia, which is being built by FDC. The site will consolidate three of the company’s existing facilities into one central depot, and serve customers in retail, technology, consumer, life sciences and healthcare. It will act as the…
Advanced Navigation to expand with global centres of excellence Australian autonomy equipment business Advanced Navigation says it will expand to establish PNT (positioning navigation and timing) centres of excellence across the United States and Europe, beginning with a new site in United Kingdom. According to a statement from the company last week, the inaugural centre…
One of the fundamental challenges manufacturers face is disconnected systems, with data silos impacting all aspects of a business. Smarter manufacturing is about a few things, but underneath it all is breaking down these barriers, removing the need to duplicate data and shift it unnecessarily across tasks and roles. The solution starts with integrating ERP…