It what looks like a move timed to coincide with the state election, the Victorian government is to spend $234,700 to boost the skills of a major regional manufacturer. The local member for Macedon, Mary-Anne Thomas, announced the funding for the Barker Trailers Regional Workforce Development project through the Government’s Regional Skills Fund. Barker Trailers…
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Forum member Bashir Mourad, Supply Chain Manager for Johnson and Johnson in New Zealand, tells us about his role, and why he expects at least one surprise a day.
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The Australian manufacturers of the revolutionary Flow Hive that provides a continuous flow of honey on tap have won a major legal battle with a copycat product. Father and son duo Stuart and Cedar Anderson have manufactured, and mostly exported, more than 50,000 of their bee hives in the past three years after a crowd-funding…
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Australian Manufacturing Forum member James Abbott tells us about managing Challenge Engineering, what staying competitive looks like, and some of the skills issues his industry faces.
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Adelaide’s Precise Global has delivered a major order of injection moulding dies to GM in the United States for inclusion in the company’s flagship Chevrolet Corvette 2019 model. The company has delivered 16 dies and is working on dies for another two GM models, according to Grant Tinney, the Chairman of Precise’s parent company, the…
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Senior representatives from the world’s most celebrated wine regions have arrived in South Australia for the Great Wine Capitals of the World Annual General Meeting. This is the first such week-long global gathering since Adelaide was named a Great Wine Capital in 2016. International guests will visit some of Australia’s most iconic cellar doors including…
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Drone technology company Emescent has raised $3.5 million in venture capital to commercialise Hovermap, which utilises autonomous drones to map underground mines. The company, a spin-out from CSIRO, raised the capital from Main Sequence Ventures and Bechtel mining executive, Andy Greig. Hovermap consists of a LiDAR mapping payload equipped with autonomous technology that automates the…
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Hearing implant maker Cochlear (ASX:COH) today (November 5) announced a US court had made a massive patent infringement order against it in the latest round of a long-running patent infringement case in the United States. A US court awarded the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (AMF) and Advanced Bionics LLC (AB) damages of…
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Analysis by Peter Roberts. Remember Malcolm Turnbull’s innovation nation? It was flavour of the month but interest evaporated when the word failed to resonate with voters and the then Prime Minister turned to more pressing issues. The rise and fall of innovation under this government is just another chapter in the marginalisation of what arguably…
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Adelaide desalination and water treatment manufacturer, Osmoflo is groaning at the seams at its Burton factory as it completes a number of major water purification projects. The company, which uses sophisticated membranes to desalinate and purify water, appears to have been benefiting from an upturn in mining investment across Australia. “Projects we are currently working…
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