For the first company profiled for Celebrating Australian Made – @AuManufacturing’s new series sponsored by Australian Made – we look at Dresden Vision. By Brent Balinski. Henry Ford is supposed to have told a meeting of his salespeople that, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it…
Today our third Celebrating Australian Made editorial series begins, coinciding with Australian Made Week 2023 (May 15 – 21.) According to the Australian Made Campaign, the first and second Australian Made Week campaigns were huge successes, with a recorded 71.2 per cent and 68.8 per cent of those polled lifting their efforts to prioritise purchases…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA’S MOST INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURERS On the opening day of Australian Manufacturing Week, @AuManufacturing and the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre held a special event: Lessons from Australia’s most innovative manufacturers. This is the introduction speech from the event,…
On the opening day of Australian Manufacturing Week, @AuManufacturing and the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre held a special event: Lessons from Australia’s most innovative manufacturers. Below is the introduction speech from the event, covering some of what we’ve learned so far from @AuManufacturing’s ongoing search to identify and celebrate Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers. By…
For the latest nominee profile in our Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers campaign, we look at XFrame, a New Zealand-born company with a Meccano-like approach to construction. Brent Balinski spoke to the company’s CFO Simon McKean about building industry circularity. The amount of material used and created by the construction and demolition sector is huge:…
Kinaltek, a Western Sydney-based company developing a new technology for production of metallic materials, has announced successful completion of a $15 million Series A round. In a short statement on Monday that shared nothing about who its investors are, Kinaltek said that the news represented a “significant milestone” and would be used “to propel us…
The Northern Territory government has put out an invitation to nominate for the 30th Chief Ministers NT Export Awards 2023. The export awards are coordinated by the Chamber of Commerce NT, with support from Austrade and the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade. According to a statement from the territory government on Monday, the awards…
Our sponsored series reporting on BAE Systems Australia’s Partnering for success defence industry supplier event continues with a look at additive manufacturer Titomic’s work in defence. Brent Balinski speaks to the company’s Dominic Parsonson about the potential in lightweighting and supply chain optimisation. Titomic’s story will be well known to many of this website’s readers,…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) VISY ACQUIRES ZENEXUS FOR UNDISCLOSED SUM Packaging and recycling company Visy announced on Monday that it has acquired privately-owned hardware and storage products supplier Zenexus. The amount paid for Zenexus was not given, but Visy said it…
Fifty projects have been funded through a new round of the Australian Research Council’s Early Career Industry Fellowships, announced on Friday, with nine of them classified by ANZSIC code as manufacturing. By successful applications, engineering led the research field category with 20; followed by agricultural, veterinary and food sciences (six); chemical sciences (four) and environmental sciences…
