Our profiles of nominees for @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers campaign continue with Open Welding. Brent Balinski speaks to founder and Technical Director Malcolm Rigby. He doesn’t use the word “Eureka moment”, but Malcolm Rigby had one of those a few years ago during a phone call about a shielding gas mixture. Rigby was…
Enware, an 86-year-old plumbing and safety equipment company, will stop manufacturing at its Australian headquarters, according to a report. US business Watts Water Technologies completed an acquisition of Enware on March 31, saying it was “excited about the growth opportunities provided by this acquisition” at the time. According to a report on Monday by industry…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading 5) Western Australia moves towards green steel production Western Australia has joined South Australia in ambitions to create a green steel manufacturing capability, with the release of a new report by the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia (MRIWA).…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Rio Tinto to bring iron ore rail car manufacturing to the Pilbara Mining company Rio Tinto will partner with Gemco Rail to bring local iron ore rail car manufacturing and bearing maintenance to the Pilbara region in…
@AuManufacturing’s mission to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers continues with this profile of Furnace Engineering. Brent Balinski speaks to Managing Director Richard Simpson about quiet achievement and adaptation. Furnace Engineering is a bona fide manufacturer’s manufacturer. Besides having manufacturers as the core customers for their custom-made ovens and furnaces, it would probably be unusual…
Those who have been following our Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers campaign will know that nominations closed a couple of weeks ago and have been handed over to a panel of experts to judge. It’s a pleasure to now introduce readers to our judges, each of whom is diligently applying their wisdom to score submissions…
The Holmes Imager, a telescopic camera made by HEO Robotics for collecting data from satellites in orbit, has been launched aboard a SpaceX rocket. In a statement on Tuesday morning, the Sydney-based company said Holmes was “the world’s first commercial camera dedicated to non-Earth imaging” and made entirely within Australia. HEO praised its collaborative partners…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Australian Army runs autonomous highway truck convoy The Australian Army has scored an Australian first in vehicle autonomy successfully operating an autonomous truck convoy on a Victorian highway. As part of the ‘Leader-Follower’ trial, a convoy of…
As part of our campaign to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers, we speak to Tom Kerr and Dr Munib Karavdic from human-centred design consultancy WAVE Design. By Brent Balinski. You could say a lot of things about innovation in Australia at the moment. Tom Kerr’s opinion is this: “It’s been treated a bit like…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Infrabuild to the rescue as loan bolsters GFG Alliance UK billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has again relied on his successful Australian steel businesses to bolster his GFG Alliance group’s finances, with steel manufacturer and distributor Infrabuild confirming a new…