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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) 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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2 weeks 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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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) 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.
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4 weeks ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
As our panel of expert judges go about the marking of nominations, our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign profiles a company trying to turn theoretical physics research into the impossible dream of clean, abundant energy. Brent Balinski speaks to HB11 founder Dr Warren McKenzie. The nation’s record on turning research inputs into commercial outputs is sometimes lamented, in different ways and from different perspectives.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
Ten years after the runaway success of the Flow Hive, beekeeping company HiveKeepers has started a Kickstarter to fund a new, Australian-made method of harvesting honey for hobbyists and beekeepers, following what it says is five years of research and development. According to a statement from the company on Tuesday, the Micro Honey Harvester system (pictured) is compact and eliminates “many of the traditional challenges of honey extraction” to make the task cleaner and quicker.
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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) Applications open for regional NSW lean manufacturing pilot programThe NSW government has launched a pilot program budgeted at $800,000, providing lean manufacturing audits to regional SME (between 20 and 200 full-time employees) companies. The Lean Manufacturing Pilot Program opened on Thursday and will accept applications until March 31 at 4 pm.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
As we prepare to hand nominations for Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers 2025 over to our judges, we look at an ASX-listed battery recycling company commercialising “deep eutectic solvent” research from the University of Adelaide. Brent Balinski speaks to IonDrive CEO Dr Ebbe Dommisse. There are a lot of ways to not make it when trying to commercialise university research, and a lot of things a metaphorical hammer might be swinging at that aren’t actually nails.
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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) BluGlass achieves gallium nitride laser world record resultASX-listed compound semiconductor developer and maker BluGlass has announced what it says is a world record for power produced by a single-mode gallium nitride (GaN) laser.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
As we mentioned this week (and a couple of times before that), we are wrapping up the nomination period for this year’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign. A last reminder that if you entered last year or in 2023 you are still absolutely welcome to nominate a second (or third) time. And a last reminder that you don’t need to be a startup. Innovation can and does happen at companies at phase of their existence.
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1 month ago | 
aumanufacturing.com.au | Brent Balinski |Peter Roberts
We are nearing the end of the nomination period for this year’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers, with Saturday the cut-off to make your case to join 2025’s prestigious list. If you entered last year or in 2023 and wonder if you can nominate a second (or third) time, let me assure you that you absolutely can. If you’re innovating but it doesn’t involve new products, then let me assure you that this is absolutely worth telling us about.
