Staff Reporter, Author at Australian Manufacturing Forum

Batteries are the environmental Achilles heel of electric vehicles – unless we repair, reuse and recycle them

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 25, 2023

By Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Swinburne University of Technology; Alex Stojcevski, Swinburne University of Technology, and Saad Mekhilef, Swinburne University of Technology Electric vehicle advocates say the cars ultimately have a smaller carbon footprint than their fossil-fuelled counterparts and could resolve our energy concerns for good. Well, fair enough, but questions arise when we dig into the…

Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 25, 2023

ACOR report estimates the value attached to recycling The Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) has released a new report that it says “demonstrates the immense economic value of the recycling sector.” The Economic Contribution of the Australian Recycling Industry, authored by Australian Economic Advocacy Solutions, estimates that over the past year, the recycling sector contributed…

Celebrating Australian Made — Berkowitz Furniture

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 24, 2023

Today in our Celebrating Australian Made series — sponsored by Australian Made — we hear from Berkowitz Furniture. @AuManufacturing speaks to Sales Consultant Justin Berkowitz, a member of the family’s fifth generation. @AuManufacturing: You’re a retail partner of Australian Made. Does the company manufacture itself, or is that a part of your history that you’ve…

Eleven Tasmanian businesses awarded grants

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 24, 2023

Eleven businesses have been awarded approximately $870,000 under the final round of the Tasmanian government’s Advanced Manufacturing Accelerating Growth Program. Grants are worth up to $100,000 each on a co-contribution basis and assist manufacturers “to purchase capital equipment, linked to an off island market driven expansion opportunity with resulting increased employment.” Round four recipients (a…

iQRenew to build, operate new MRF at Summerhill

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 24, 2023

The City of Newcastle’s councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday night in favour of a $56.7 million tender by iQRenew, which will see the company build and operate a new material recovery facility (MRF) at Summerhill. The new MRF at Summerhill Waste Management Facility will have capacity to process 85,000 tonnes per annum of yellow-lid bin…

Johnson Controls to acquire Gordon Brothers

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 24, 2023

US building automation company Johnson Controls has announced that it will acquire century-plus-year-old industrial refrigeration specialist Gordon Brothers Industries for an undisclosed sum. In a statement on Wednesday, Johnson Controls said the definitive agreement with the Australian company would strengthen its presence in the region, and see GBI staff trained to design and engineer, select,…

WA’s first cotton processing plant closer with order

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 23, 2023

The Kimberley Cotton Company (KCC) in Western Australia will build the state’s first cotton processing plant, worth $60 million and expected to begin operating in 2025. In a statement on Wednesday, the WA government congratulated the KCC on ordering the plant at Kununurra, which coincided with a visit by regional minister Don Punch meeting with…

New Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence opens at Heidelberg

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 23, 2023

A new Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at Melbourne Polytechnic’s Heidelberg campus was opened on Monday. The new $3.2 million facility was described as “next-generation manufacturing training centre” that would train Victoria’s next generation of engineers on “technology in robotics, 3D printing, and computer design will support a range of industries including biomedical, defence and…

Celebrating Australian Made: approaching a century of collaboration

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 23, 2023

The next profile in our Celebrating Australian Made series — sponsored by Australian Made — is Jack Thompson Engineering. Cole Latimer speaks to the company’s general manager, Nick Fergus. For close to a century a passion for powering Australia’s people and manufacturing industry has been the driving force behind Jack Thompson Engineering, a heavy industry…

Hydrogen energy company Endua raises $11.8 million

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 23, 2023

Green energy company Endua has announced that it has raised $7.5 million in pre-series private funding, with new investors including Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Melt Ventures and 77 Partners.

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