The details of Para Mobility’s history are not totally clear. The assistive technology company began in 1983, and CEO Peter Cleaves says it’s had various different names and about six different owners during the time. What seems clearer is that it began with and continues to operate based on needs. “Like most AT businesses in…
Jindera, NSW-based grain silo maker SilOz goes back to the 1970s and is almost a year into its current ownership. As a maker of products based on Australian steel, its history reflects some of the shifts in the local steel sector over the decades. “It used to be a part of the Smorgon Group, which…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Incitec Pivot’s fertiliser business heads for foreign control Yet another Australian manufacturing operation is heading for foreign control with fertiliser and explosives business Incitec Pivot confirming it was negotiating the sale of its fertiliser manufacturing to an Indonesian…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) ASC pledges to work with striking workers but cuts pay offer – report Submarine builder ASC has acknowledged industrial action underway at its headquarters at Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide and pledged to work for a mutually beneficial…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Applications open for Industry Growth Program, $6.9 million announced for four not-for-profits to assist IGP A total of $6.9 million in grant funding was announced for four Industry Partner Organisations (IPO), alongside the opening of applications for the…
Australian Turntable Company is in demand all over the world in its niche: designing, engineering, assembling and maintaining platforms that spin. Brent Balinski speaks to Managing Director Ben Chapman about the regional Victorian company’s story, and the imminent launch of its very first first business-to-consumer product. It was the middle-aughts. Then as now, Iran’s military…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Boeing and Wagner join to manufacture and utilise sustainable aviation fuels Australian infrastructure, property development and investment management company Wagner has joined with Boeing to grow the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry to help meet Australia’s airline demand…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) From soft plastics waste to structural building panels Australian composites manufacturer Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (SIS) has revealed innovative structural building panels made from glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) and discarded soft plastics. The lightweight, high-strength composite panels are…
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…