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Big beverage brands benefit from smart conveying solutions

Quite a few of the world’s most iconic food and beverage brands have operations in Australia, central to Sydney. At the BSC Prestons branch in Sydney’s Southwest, Fady Elchab regularly works with food and beverage customers to bring their maintenance costs down, save time on production, and keep their operations up and running.
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Ingenuity solving heavy rooftop challenges

Con-form Group has been challenging the perception that Industrial HVAC&R systems have to be heavy and noisy for almost ten years. Manufacturers’ Monthly speaks to the Australian engineering company about breaking the mould for roof-mounting mechanical equipment.
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A new steel capability for Australian defence and shipbuilding

As Australia’s shipbuilding program gains momentum, the Navy’s next generation ships will need many materials, including steel. Manufacturers’ Monthly caught up with BlueScope Distribution to find out about its new BlueScope Distribution National Product, Processing & Solutions Hub.
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Keeping the marine industry in propulsion

Altra Industrial Motion is the manufacturer and service provider with a portfolio of 26 world-class power transmission brands. Manufacturers’ Monthly asks the OEM what is behind its ascendency in the Australian Marine market.
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Complete paddock-to-consumer traceability for DA Hall & Co

Founded in 1958, DA Hall & Co is a privately owned agribusiness that operates one of the largest poultry and egg farms in Australia. From humble beginnings it has grown to become a large and successful integrated rural enterprise. DA Hall & Co has more than 200 employees, fulfilling a seven day-a-week operation. Read More
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The foundations to successful distributorship

As a locally owned and managed company, APS Industrial continues to grow its service capabilities around the country to complement its diverse portfolio of products. Manufacturers’ Monthly sits down with Stephen Gough, electrical products (EP) business manager about activating an advanced strategy for the low voltage electrical portion of the business.
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Chipping away at sustainable forestry

Located in Geelong, Softwood Plantation Exporters (SPE) is changing the game when it comes to re-using waste product along the forestry supply chain. Born out of a partnership between Hancock Victorian Plantations (HVP) and Associated Kiln Driers (AKD) in 1996, the business offers its owners a well-located export facility that receives, processes and stores forest and sawmill residues.
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Manufacturing needs a coordinated national policy approach

Recently, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet awarded a $70 million contract for the manufacture of electric buses to a western Sydney manufacturer. Custom Denning will manufacture 79 electric buses, as part of the NSW Government’s commitment for the state’s fleet of more than 8,000 buses to go green by 2030.
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A beginner’s guide to digital twins

Manufacturing, energy and transportation companies are increasingly benefiting from Industry 4.0 applications after years of hype. The emergence of digital twins is one of the main reasons engineering and design teams are actualising these benefits for their enterprises.
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Discover the story behind DHL’s award-winning inventory robot at CeMAT Australia 2022

What’s in store for manufacturers this July? Kent Rogers and Karl Brooks, colleagues with similar strengths in IT, created their inventory robot Meerkat Inventory after witnessing so many go-live and operational challenges created by inventory problems. The new mobile robots opened the way for small platforms to deliver solutions never before possible.
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Have you considered Edge computing infrastructure solutions for food production facilities?

The food and beverage industry is at something of a crossroads. While today’s producers may not view themselves as being at the forefront of the IT infrastructure conversation, food and beverage companies in a modern production landscape are also tech companies. The ability to gather, sort, retrieve, and act on data as quickly as possible is a necessity for producers to be proactive to consumer demands and behaviour, compliant with safety regulations and guidelines, and competitive via optimised processes and workflows.
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The 6X – A simple radar formula for better processes

VEGA believes in continuing to optimise its level sensor which already has the best focusing, highest accuracy, simple operation and universal communication. With this mindset, the company’s new VEGAPULS 6X is more than a sensor that counts. Read More
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Illuminating a future for end-of-life tyres

Acustico Lighting founder and director, Samantha McKenzie, was researching the viability of using recycled tyres in the design of her new collection when she came across Tyre Stewardship Australia.
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