By Brent Balinski There are many examples since 2020 of manufacturers of all sizes being forced to re-examine their supply chains. One comes from John Smith, owner of Smith’s Cooking Systems and Smith’s BBQ. He began designing and selling cooker cabinets and later microwave trims in 2000, and BBQs and related equipment in 2015. The…
Rossi Boots has emerged from a period of reform under new owners the Propel Group and GP Securities with a revamped manufacturing operation, new products and a marketing program designed to reposition the 112 year old company. The Adelaide manufacturer, now part of a portfolio of brands including Melbourne waterproof apparel manufacturer Driza-Bone and regional…
Recycling clothing isn’t like recycling paper, glass or metal. Clothes are endlessly variable and unpredictable. So they’re not ideal for recycling technologies, which require a steady and consistent source material. Even a seemingly simple garment may contain multiple materials, with fibre blends such as cotton/polyester and cotton/elastane being common.
Australian manufacturers change hands every day, but for Affinity Windows, part of BCG Australia WA, preparing for sale sparked a root and branch modernisation of operations. Peter Roberts reports. Affinity Windows is well known in Western Australia, supplying residential and commercial customers with aluminium windows, doors, security products, shower screens and robes. Fairly standard products…
NeuRizer has executed an Infrastructure utilisation Licence Agreement with the South Australian government allowing the exclusive use of existing infrastructure at the site of the NeuRizer Urea Project (NRUP), at Leigh Creek in the north of the state. The agreement allows for significant efficiencies and cost savings by leveraging existing infrastructure on site, which once…
Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) which plans to build a silicon quantum computer in Australia today announced the launch of its $130 million Series A capital raising to fund the company’s technical development, operations and strategic activities through to 2028. The Series A round follows SQC’s successful $83 million seed capital raising in 2017. Investors in…
On Friday a small Adelaide manufacturer announced it was closing, unremarkable perhaps because it happens every day. But manufacturing is suffering a death by a thousand such cuts, argues Peter Roberts. We have to do something to change the fortunes of our SMEs who, like the little company profiled here – are doing it tough.…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a final settlement with France’s Naval Group which cuts $2 billion from the expected cost of Australia’s decision to scrap the purchase of Attack class submarines from France. Albanese today announced Australia will pay Naval Group an $830 million settlement of the cancelled a $90-billion contract, bringing the estimated…
Computer vision breakthrough for Australian laundry robot Consolidated Linen Service (CLS) and the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub have developed a prototype robot to make life easier in a hot, humid workplace. The project’s first phase, according to ARM Hub CEO Associate Professor Cori Stewart, showed it was possible to automate picking up linen…
Medical device manufacturer Nova Eye Medical has made the first shipments to surgeons of its new iTrack Advance consumable device (pictured, below) to be used in glaucoma surgery. The device has an illuminated fibre optic tip, and is designed to improve the efficacy of canaloplasty surgery in treating glaucoma, and can be utilised by ophthalmologists,…