Below is the introduction speech from @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards event, held on April 18. You can view the 2024 list here. Good morning and welcome. We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land – the Gadigal people of the Eora nation – as we begin this event. When we launched this…
@AuManufacturing’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2024 were announced to a full room at Cockle Bay Wharf’s rooftop L’Aqua venue on Thursday morning. After a five-month campaign and the assessments of five expert judges, the list for this year can be made public. This title expresses its great thanks to the second annual event’s…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Sentient Vision to fall to foreign control in Shield AI takeover Optical detection and video imagery company Sentient Vision Systems is to fall into overseas control with a takeover by California-based Shield AI. Sentient previously collaborated with…
@AuManufacturing is very happy to announce our keynote speaker for the Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards breakfast this week. Our guest presenter on April 18 is Xavier Orr (pictured), CEO and co-founder of Advanced Navigation. Orr’s breakthrough in neural network research at university has turned into a manufacturing business supplying digital fibre optic gyroscopes…
Less than two weeks before our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards event at Cockle Bay Wharf, we profile another of the standout candidates. Brent Balinski speaks to Sleeptite founder Cameron van den Dungen about an eight-year quest to develop what’s been described as “a bed that watches you sleep”. Sleeptite did not set out…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Arthur Sinodinos replaces co-founder as Chair at Hypersonix Hypersonic vehicle developer Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced former Australian Ambassador to the United States and Senator Arthur Sinodinos as the new Chair of its board. In a statement…
Have you ever wished you could get together with other manufacturers in a relaxed setting, chew the fat, and maybe make a few new contacts you can do business with later on? It turns out we have just the thing for you. On the evening of April 3 you can join some of your Sydney-based…
The NSW Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility will become operational later this year. Brent Balinski speaks to David Fox from the AMRF – a sponsor of this title’s current Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign – about what it aims to achieve. Later this year, the First Building in Bradfield City Centre, containing stage one…
The next nominee for @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers list for 2024 is First Graphene. Brent Balinski speaks to CEO Michael Bell, who talks about finding a meaningful niche for graphene. For quite some time, many of its enthusiasts have described graphene as a remarkable material in need of a “killer app”. Mike Bell,…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Australian Vanadium produces first battery electrolyte Australian Vanadium has successfully produced its first high purity vanadium electrolyte, ready for use in vanadium redox flow batteries. Production follows the commissioning of the company’s vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in Perth in December.…
