Tag: manufacturing

From makerspace to manufacturing

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
A rapid-prototyping co-working facility in Melbourne has developed face shields for frontline medical workers amid emerging shortages in the health system, pivoting to full-blown manufacturing operation. FAB9 founder and...

Tech focus for Greens leader Bandt

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Adam Bandt is the new leader of the Greens, with the party to campaign on a Green New Deal and to transform Australia into a renewable energy “superpower”. Mr...

Govt’s $50m lift for manufacturers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Coalition will hand Australia’s manufacturing sector a $50 million boost as part of the newly created Manufacturing Modernisation Fund. Under the fund, which would be matched by $110...

Austeng: Goodbye to the car-makers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When Holden, Ford, Toyota, and Mitsubishi began shuttering their plants permanently in this country, it was an “absolute guillotine” for suppliers such as Geelong-based engineering firm Australian Engineering Solutions...

Gupta eyes an electric Lazarus

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Just when you thought vehicle manufacturing in Australia had gone the way of the dodo, billionaire UK investor Sanjeev Gupta has popped up with a bid to buy some of...

HTA Global takes to the air

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There’s a long-standing narrative in this country that local manufacturing is dying. The demise of Ford, Toyota and most recently, Holden would seem to bear this out. Yet the...

An indispensable part of ecosystem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Advanced manufacturing has turned a corner in Australia and is an “indispensable part” of the innovation ecosystem, federal industry, innovation and science minister Arthur Sinodinos said. Speaking at the...

Manufacturing is not lost: Carr

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Veteran Labor industry spokesman Kim Carr went full polemic on the advantages of Australia retaining its manufacturing capability in a speech this week, hitting out at the free market...

Kim Carr on the revolving door

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The Coalition’s latest industry minister might talk tough about the power of the free market but political reality and the rise of populist parties like One Nation will soon...