I strongly believe manufacturing is an essential service. We now have over 1500 companies that have signed up to the Covid19 National Manufacturing Response. That’s over 1500 Australian manufacturing companies putting their hand up to say “We’re ready, willing and able”.
Australia’s biotechnology industries are set to benefit in the long term with a federal government decision to reverse years of declining support for CSIRO. The government announced on Saturday that it would spend $220 million upgrading the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong (pictured) with the increasing threat of human pandemic disease and the…
With airlines cutting international flights to the bare bones on federal government orders, air freight costs have skyrocketed. Now these twin events have combined to slow the import and export of essential manufactures to a trickle. Manufacturers exporting to the United States are restricted to one flight a day from Melbourne to the United States,…
The plans of young people hoping to start an apprenticeship or traineeship in 2020 have have been hit by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic with advertised vacancies dropping to just 880 vacancies nationwide. This drop will leave a generation of young people struggling to get a foot on the employment ladder and result in recession-extending skills…
By Peter Roberts In an exciting development Australia’s CSIRO has begun testing potential vaccines against the Covid-19 coronavirus at its Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) facility in Geelong. Testing in the biosecure facility originally built to contain the world’s most harmful plant and animal diseases is part of a global effort led by the interational Coalition…
@AuManufacturing news is pleased to announce the launch of our 2020 media kit – the first major revision to our offering to advertisers since our launch in November, 2018. The kit features prices for website and newsletter advertising, introduces the new Technology section of our website, and launches our second weekly newsletter. The new features…
Quick thinking saw an exhibitions supplier go from idea to new business in half a week. Brent Balinski spoke to Displaywise about saving jobs and adapting to “the new norm.”
Exclusive by Peter Roberts Australia’s furnishing and furniture manufacturers have been the latest to be called up by governments in the fight to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The sector has been asked to provide details of how it can furnish a series of field hospitals to be set up around the country…
It is likely that once a vaccine is delivered by science, or even before, the economic recovery will begin. Thus the question: what are the most equitable ways to handle this major short-term trauma?
Medium calibre munitions for the F35 lightning fighter aircraft will be produced in Australia and exported to allies including the United States following an announcement by the Rheinmetall NIOA Munitions (RNM) joint venture. The venture, between Australian-owned NIOA and Germany’s Rheinmetall, will install a new production line at the government-owned munitions plant in Benalla to…
