Alexandria-based medical device manufacturer ProMed Australia raised more than $16,000 for the Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation at a charity auction in Pyrmont on Wednesday night, June 4. The event at Audrey Fine Art gallery featured the auction of a landscape painting by artist Ted Lewis, which sold for $4,800 despite being valued at $8,000. The…
New guests have been added to @AuManufacturing‘s upcoming Spotlight on Scaling Up event, with Quickstep Acting CEO Demi Stefanova and Harvest B Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer Alfred Lo announced as panellists. Stefanova and Lo, leaders from a composites specialist and food technology startup respectively, will appear in conversation with Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre Chair Paul…
CSIRO has released Australia’s first comprehensive stocktake of the nation’s $800 billion food system, revealing hidden costs of up to $274 billion annually and calling for a coordinated approach to managing complex challenges across the sector. The report, released on Monday through the Food System Horizons initiative, examined Australia’s food system which feeds approximately 100…
A vindictive equipment operator’s act of sabotage in 1989 led to an internationally significant breakthrough in mining waste management. Simran Gill speaks to David Smirk, the founder of Phibion, a Top 10 Gold Award winner at @AuManufacturing’s recent Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards. David Smirk, founder and non-executive director of Phibion, tells the @AuManufacturing…
By Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University In a decision surprising very few people, Australia’s new environment minister Murray Watt has signed off on an extension for the gas plant at Karratha, part of the enormous North West Shelf liquefied natural gas project. The decision had been deferred until after the federal election, given significant environmental concerns…
In the final day of our Celebrating Australian Made editorial series, sponsored by Australian Made, we hear from Western Metalworx. It’s been said that it takes an Australian made design to stand up to Australian conditions. Especially when it comes to the mining industry. For West Australian, Malaga, West Australian-based steel fabricator Western Metalworx, it’s…
In a project that sounds like textile alchemy, Deakin University has partnered with Full Circle Fibres and Loomtex to transform Australia’s unwanted wool scraps into premium yarn—proving that one farmer’s trash really can become a fashionista’s treasure. The cleverly named “Mud to Marle” project has successfully demonstrated how low-grade Merino wool fibres, typically destined for chunky homeware,…
WA sealing itself off during the pandemic pushed Australian Winders towards inhouse production. Nicholas Way speaks to the company’s Director, Tony O’Brien, in the latest feature from our Celebrating Australian Made series. Like many businesses, Perth-based Australian Winders was transformed by the COVID pandemic, morphing from a global maintenance and field service specialist in industrial…
Today in our Celebrating Australian Made series, we learn about Infinispark, which helps apprentice electricians learn their trade. Nicholas Way spoke to founder Husnen Rupani about how he saw a gap in the market for practical training gear. From an electrical trades teacher to running a thriving business that manufactures the equipment that ensures the…
Electric motor startup Kite Magnetics, which won a Top 10 Gold Award at this title’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards last week, has received a $US $2.2 million (approximately $3.6 million) seed investment from SQM Lithium Ventures. According to a joint statement from the two companies on Monday, the investment is part of Kite’s…