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4 days ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Computer/information services and the path to a Future Made in AustraliaIt is now well understood by innovation policy analysts and advisers that, on many fronts, Australia stands at a pivotal crossroads in its innovation journey, writes Dr John H Howard.
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1 week ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
We are pleased to present our expert panel of judges for Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers 2025. Meet our judges, each of which enabled an independent, credible, arm’s-length evaluation of nominees for @AuManufacturing‘s campaign. You can see the results of said campaign — this year’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers list — here. Mike Jennings Design Director WAVE DesignMike is a Director of WAVE Design.
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1 week ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
Below is the introduction speech from @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards event, held on May 7. You can view the 2025 list here. Welcome to the awards for Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers, something @AuManufacturing has the great privilege of hosting for the third year running. I’d like to begin by respectfully acknowledging the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are holding this event.
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1 week ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
After launching our campaign in November last year, @AuManufacturing announced Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2025 at an event at Crown Melbourne’s River Room on Wednesday. Following a national search and the judgments of six experts, this title is very happy to share the list, as well as the category award winners. Please see below. Our huge thanks to the sponsors who made this six-month adventure possible.
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1 week ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) The critical trade keeping Australian manufacturing aliveAustralian manufacturing faces a hidden crisis as the number of toolmakers and engineering pattern-makers has declined by 70 per cent between 2006 and 2021, according to the latest Census data. Only 2,220 practitioners remain in this vital trade, with just 411 of these under 40 years old.
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2 weeks ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
@AuManufacturing is delighted to share that Dr Geoff Rogers will give the keynote address at next week’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers awards breakfast, to be held on May 7 at Crown Melbourne’s River RoomRogers is co-founder of automotive business Doftek, which is currently commercialising a world-first active wheel alignment system. Among his awards is The Prize for New Innovators at the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science in 2018His bio is reproduced below.
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2 weeks ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) QUT team make stretchable semiconductors better able to turn body heat into electricityA team of Queensland University of Technology researchers (pictured) have developed a new alloy with potential use in wearable, flexible semiconductors.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Fonterra plans $1.7m refurbishment of Tasmanian cheese towerGlobal dairy company Fonterra has plans to upgrade the cheddaring tower, as its Wynyard, Tasmania cheese factory. It lodged a development application to refurbish and remediate the tower, boosting its height to 21 metres, nearly doubling its width, and upgrading it to new standards.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
With only a month until we unveil Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers and the category award winners, we look at Trans-Tasman medical products remanufacturer Medsalv, a finalist for 2025. Brent Balinski speaks to founder and CEO, Oliver Hunt. In a family with more than its fair share of medical professionals, Oliver Hunt agrees that his engineering career path makes him a bit of a black sheep. His work sees him involved with a vast number of clinics, though.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Liquid catalyst breakthrough speeds up chemical manufacturingA major breakthrough in liquid catalysis is transforming how essential products are made, making the chemical manufacturing process faster, safer and more sustainable than ever before.
