@AuManufacturing and the Australian Manufacturing Forum’s quest to identify Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers is over. Editor Brent Balinski hosted a breakfast event in the Melbourne industrial heartland of Clayton this morning which saw the whole list revealed. As we planned, 50 Australian manufacturers were inducted into @AuManufacturing’s inaugural Top 50, with another 24 forcing…
Those who have been following our Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers campaign will know that nominations closed a couple of weeks ago and have been handed over to a panel of experts to judge. It’s a pleasure to now introduce readers to our judges, each of whom is diligently applying their wisdom to score submissions…
Australian-made cookware company Solidteknics has won Best Australian Manufactured Product at the second Naturally Good awards this week. The Sydney-based company took out the category with its AUS-ION range of frypans and baking trays, made out wrought Australian iron. These are described as “best for everyday oil and fat cooking and can be seasoned to build…
As readers of this website will know, nominations closed on Friday for @AuManufacturing’s very first Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers campaign. How was the response, you ask? Let us say that we are stunned. Shocked. Unable to stop smiling. Being the first time we have run this campaign, we were of course unsure of what…
In the final part in our two week editorial series – Celebrating Australian Made – we profile two venerable agricultural Australian manufacturing brands – Horwood Bagshaw and K-Line Ag. By Nicholas Way.. They might now be part of an international conglomerate, but agricultural machinery manufacturers, Horwood Bagshaw and K-line Ag, remain integral ingredients of the…
In today’s installment of Celebrating Australian Made – our two-week editorial series sponsored by Australian Made – we catch up with Sebel, which has manufactured a place to sit for countless people. Brent Balinski speaks to Shane Fellowes. In 1974, the world’s first monobloc plastic moulded chair, Sebel’s Integra, went into production. Engineer Harry Sebel…
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…
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…
Final call to nominate in @AuManufacturing and the Australian Manufacturing Forum’s search to identify and celebrate Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers. @AuManufacturing is looking for companies that lead the nation in their efforts to innovate through product, process, technology, leadership and people. Nominations close 26 May – nominate here, it takes 15 minutes and is…
Our editorial series Celebrating Australian Made, coinciding with Australian Made Week, turns to something all Australians want – a good night’s rest on a great bed. Here Nicholas Way profiles Sealy Australia which has been giving us just that since the 1920s. The bed manufacturing industry is one of Australia’s success stories. Unlike many other…