Celebrating Australian Made: A home turf advantage
@AuManufacturing’s editorial series – Celebrating Australian Made – continues with a look at APT Asia Pacific, a local champion in sporting surfaces. By Brent Balinski.
Brent is a co-founder and editor of @AuManufacturing.
Want to know how Australian the contents of your trolley are? There’s an app for that
By Brent Balinski As has been said many times before, the pandemic has driven home the importance of local manufacturing. Consumers and others have responded. According to Roy Morgan research carried out in June last year for Australian Made, just over half of respondents had a higher preference for locally-made goods since Covid emerged, and…
Fibres and composites transforming industry: Helmets in a hurry
Composites production can be slow, labour-intensive and poorly-suited to complex shapes. Brent Balinski spoke to Tristan Alexander from TST, which is commercialising a process to change that.
Further detail on reshoring research to come out in Q2 2021: PROS
Earlier in the week, this title wrote about the need for better information to support any reshoring trend in Australia.
Fibres and composites transforming industry: There are Australians chasing the holy grail, but they can’t talk about it yet
This short installment of our Fibres and composites transforming industry series looks at the cutting-edge of pressure vessel construction, known as Type V. Work is underway in Australia on design and manufacture of these, but few details are being shared right now. By Brent Balinski.
If there’s a reshoring movement happening, it needs to be properly documented
According to a survey released last week, over half of manufacturers intend to reshore over the next two years. We need more information. By Brent Balinski
Fibres and composites transforming industry – Introduction to our new editorial series
@AuManufacturing launches its new editorial series today. It will look at work done to make better products with fibres and composites, ranging from the laboratory to the factory floor, as well as the increased focus on end-of-life products. Editor Brent Balinski looks at some of the recent and potential future success in the genre.
The terrible trickiness of growing an Australian semiconductor sector
What does Australia have in the way of a semiconductor industry, and why does that matter? Brent Balinski spoke to Professor James Rabeau, the lead author of a national study of the sector published at the end of last year.
Andrews’s promotion is manufacturing’s loss
For a long time, manufacturing lacked an industry minister with a lock on the job, there for the long term and with the necessary, hard-won credibility it takes to be taken seriously by the industry. It seemed to have had one until yesterday. The timing is unfortunate.
Recycling: the great green opportunity?
According to a recent PwC report, the circular economy offers a potential $1.86 trillion nationally in new economic value over the next decade. Brent Balinski speaks to a few experts about the opportunities attached to recycling and the circular economy.