Manufacturers urged to adopt digital technology, both internally and externally, to stay ahead of the game. Alan Johnson reports.
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The war on waste: Minimising waste on site
A new program recently launched in Victoria by Insights to Excellence (i2e) is providing opportunities for participating companies to exchange valuable information about war on waste initiatives.
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Beer powered brewery
A brewer is going green, but instead of solar or wind energy it is looking closer to home - beer.
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Bluescope spends upwards of $100mil on next generation
Bluescope steel has invested more than $100 million to develop a more resilient line of steel for the Australian market.
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Tough year ahead for solar companies
Upstream solar photovoltaic suppliers will see a year of intense consolidation in 2013, as the industry is buffeted by rapidly falling prices, mounting losses and massive operational costs.
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Aus-US partnership for next-gen solar
CSIRO will lead an Australian solar thermal research initiative, aiming to lower the cost of solar thermal power from 25 to 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
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R&D Incentives and Government Grants – Maximising your return on R&D investment
Investing in R&D is an important part of operations for many manufacturing companies and can drive the achievement of long term success, Deloitte's Andrew Leung & Jason Crawford explain.
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Samsung and LG win energy awards
Samsung and LG have won national awards for manufacturing the most energy efficient flat screen televisions in Australia.
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E & A Limited to move in to wind tower making
E & A Contractors has secured elements of RPG's wind farming business and is working with Siemens to make wind towers for the Snowtown II project.
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Alcoa MD highlights gas supply issues
The Australian managing director of Alcoa, Alan Cransberg, has called for Australia to use its natural gas supply more effectively.
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NMW to look at productivity, include new product zones
National Manufacturing Week 2013 will feature value- and productivity-boosting solutions for those in the industry, as well as two brand new Product Zones.
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Achieving zero landfill at an automotive plant
The short story of how one Subaru automotive plant achieved a zero landfill status, recycling every single thing.
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Swan brewery to close
James Brindley, managing director of Lion Beer, Spirits & Wine Australia, has announced that its Swan brewery at Canning Vale in WA will shut its doors by early next March, and relocate its production units to SA.
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Steel recycling pilot plant to be trialled in Adelaide
Melbourne-based Metallic Waste Solutions has been awarded close to $2 million in Federal Government funding to build a commercial scale pilot plant to recover zinc by-products at its Adelaide steel recycling plant.
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Manufacturers spending more to boost energy efficiency
A report shows expenditure on energy as a percentage of turnover increased by 10% between 2008 and 2011, as pressures mount from the carbon tax and rising electricity bills.
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COMMENT: Why no cheap LNG for us?
The carbon tax has made its ugly entrance onto Australia's economic landscape and is rightly hogging all the headlines, however we can be quietly confident that when Tony Abbott takes over the reins in Canberra the insidious tax will become history.
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Carbon tax does have a silver lining
While the unpopular carbon tax comes into force this month it is linked to some good news in the form of the generous $800m CleanTechnology Investment Program (CTIP) specifically for Australian manufacturers.
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Carbon Tax: Manufacturers affected and likely to raise prices
An Australian Industry (Ai) Group survey marking the start of the carbon tax has found a big proportion (42%) of businesses across the manufacturing, services and construction sectors will try to put up their prices immediately following the introduction of the scheme on 1 July.
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Driving down costs with motors and drives
Escalating demands to save energy have lead suppliers to develop new, more efficient motor and drive systems. Sarah Falson investigates.
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Crystalline PV module manufacturers under pressure
Average gross profits of crystalline photovoltaic (PV) industry module manufacturers fell to just nine US cents per watt in the first quarter of 2012, putting huge pressure on suppliers according to the latest quarterly report from IMS Research.
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