According to the recent Bibby barometer small business survey only 20% of small and medium businesses (SMEs) plan to invest in their businesses in the coming year, down from 30% in February 2012 and 33% in July 2011.
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Green group campaigns against Antaria
Sunscreen ingredient manufacturer Antaria is facing a Friends of the Earth campaign over its 'incorrect' product labelling.
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Support Australian made, says Sutton Tools
Sutton Tools, one of the largest family-owned cutting tool companies in the world, has been chosen as one of three companies to be featured in this year’s Australian Made, Australian Grown (AMAG) keep Australians working campaign.
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Ford to build high performance vehicles in Geelong
Ford Australia has announced plans of shifting manufacturing of its performance vehicle engines to Geelong.
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Fire destroys factory
A Cardiff industrial estate has gone up in flames, forcing residents to evacuate and bringing passenger train services to a standstill.
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Ford absorbs FPV
Ford Australia has bought out Ford Performance Vehicles that was originally established as a joint venture with Prodrive, with 32 jobs in Geelong to go.
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Hollywood technology used for building cars
Ford Australia opened a new virtual design studio that uses the same motion modelling technology used in Hollywood animations to test the interior design of a car before it is built.
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Wine manufacturing to decline
In the five years through 2012-13, Australian grape growing industry revenue is expected to decrease by 11.7% to total $1.06 billion annually.
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$9 million plan to reform apprenticeship system
A new Engineering Excellence in Apprenticeships project announced by the Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills, Senator Chris Evans, is likely set to reshape Australia's apprenticeship system.
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SME’s to benefit from resource projects
Small and Medium Enterprises will have more opportunity to build their capabilities from resources projects after today’s Third Resources Sector Supplier Advisory Forum according to minister.ret.gov.au
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Fighter aircraft part manufactured in Melbourne
Australian Minister for Defence Material, Jason Clare announced yesterday of the first Australian made part for the first Joint Strike Fighter aircraft AU-1.
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Australians want more investment in manufacturing
Recent research commissioned by the Australian Manufacturing Workers’s Union (AMWU) reveals that more and more Australians are seeking higher investment in the nation’s manufacturing industry.
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Factory Workers at Dandenong strike
Nearly 100 Factory workers at Volgren went on a strike outside their Dandenong factory yesterday complaining of change of management and less pay.
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GrainCorp’s oil business grows bigger
GrainCorp has bought Australia’s second largest oilseed crusher Gardner Smith and Goodman Fielder’s Integro edible oil refining and packaging business for $472 million.
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Employers blame unions for rising wage costs
Employers claim the cost of manufacturing on coal mining projects in north Queensland is spiking up to 10 per cent a year as the unions are exploiting the existing industrial relations system to increase wages.
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3D printers to save manufacturing industry
Developers at Swinburne University believe that a new 3D printer can help save Australia's manufacturing industry. The newly designed printer dispenses metal instead of ink and is developed to dramatically speed up the process for manufacturing for metal parts.
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Tobacco manufacturing gives workers free cigarettes
New Zealand’s largest tobacco manufacturer is giving workers free cigarettes to test the products, even as health authorities investigate the practice.
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Resources slide to benefit building sector
New Zealand building materials manufacturer and distributor, Fletcher Building’s boss Jonathan Ling, says that a slowdown in the resources sector can be beneficial for the local materials manufacturing, with the local industry's products likely to become a more practical alternative to imports should the Australian dollar fall as a result.
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Pharma manufacturing unit to open by 2014
Cyclopharm Limited, a radiopharmaceutical company, has entered into a three party agreement with Queensland Mater Misericordiae Health Services and Queensland X-Ray to establish a cyclotron manufacturing unit at the South Brisbane Mater Hospital by 2014.
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Toyota supports local automotive manufacturing
Coffs Harbour Toyota's dealer Warren Skinner has funded a display at the Park Beach plaza, to support local manufacturing in the car industry.
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