@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…
Businesses must get better at transforming themselves to seize new opportunities rather than focussing on business as usual, according to a new survey by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). The report – Dynamic capabilities: How Australian firms can survive and thrive in uncertain times – reveals the results of the first broad…
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…
By M. Reza Hosseini, Deakin University and Tuba Kocaturk, Deakin University Architecture, engineering and construction employ 1.2 million people in Australia and account for 9% of GDP. But our biggest services sector also produces roughly 40% of landfill waste and accounts for 18.1% of Australia’s carbon footprint. The sector must change its practices fast for…
By Pascal Scherrer, Southern Cross University This week in Paris, negotiators from around the world are convening for a United Nations meeting. They will tackle a thorny problem: finding a globally binding solution for plastic pollution. Of the staggering 460 million tonnes of plastic used globally in 2019 alone, much is used only once and…
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…
@AuManufacturing’s mission to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers continues (nominations close on Friday.) Today we hear from environmental tech company Samsara Eco, which is questing after a mixed bale holy grail. Brent Balinski spoke to founder Paul Riley. It’s safe to say enzymatic depolymerisation is an unfamiliar topic to most people. As with any…
You may have noticed changes being rolled out on the look and feel of @AuManufacturing. Welcome to our new look – our first refresh of the look of the news website of the Australian Manufacturing Forum Linkedin discussion and networking group since our founding five years ago. The home page is most changed, with a…
LED stadium lighting manufacturer VALO has announced that it is to change its name and rebrand to VAILO as part of its expansion internationally. Chief Executive and founder Aaron Hickmann has just returned from the United States to scope VAILO’s first export project returning with a new vision to become a global leader in ultra-high-performance…
The SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has unveiled a Compact Hybrid Optical-RF User Segment (CHORUS) prototype terminal to provide more stable and secured military satellite communications. Funded by SmartSat CRC, the terminal which was developed over three years of research was revealed at the 15th Australian Space Forum underway in Adelaide. Technology embedded in the…
