Manufacturing News

TOY giant Mattel has been forced to recall close to a million toys, under the Fisher-Price brand, following the discovery...

AUSTRALIAN Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, announced legislation to establish a new Board, Innovation Australia, designed to spearhead the delivery of...

AUSTRALIAN WINE producer and exporter, Taylors Wines, optimises its Clare Valley production facility with the aid of environmentally-friendly compressed air...

THE Australian Profibus Association will be hosting accredited Profibus training courses in Sydney and Perth commencing October 2007.

HONEYWELL Process Solutions (HPS), a part of Honeywell’s Automation and Control Solutions group, will host its 19th Pacific Users Group...

ABB Australia's performance services team at the company's transformer site located in Darra, QLD, has been working hard to improve...

Labor announced earlier this week that it will invest up to $100 million in a national network of manufacturing centres...

THE R&D Tax Concession is said to be having a long-term impact on business R&D collaboration, management and commercialisation, according...

Heralding a new era in Japanese ferry transportation, the impressive new Incat 112m Wave Piercing Catamaran Natchan Rera has been...

In response to the growing risk of needle-stick injuries worldwide Safety Medical Products invented the SecureTouch Safety Syringe.

One of the foremost of the light, clean and tough engineering thermoplastics making inroads into the traditional domains of metal...

Nuclear power could be as cheap as coal if the cost of carbon capture and storage is considered, according to...

PEACOCK Bros has re-launched its colour print division bringing with it new equipment, technologies and experience. Additional label printing presses...

TETRA Pak, one of the world’s leading food and beverage processing and packaging equipment companies, is on target to reduce...

AUSTRALIAN Industry Productivity Centres (AIPC) are on track for a September opening following Friday’s announcement by Industry minister, Ian Macfarlane,...

LOOKING at supply chain management from the perspective of ‘lean manufacturing’ can provide important benefits for company performance as well...

THE recent release of a government report titled Are People With Disability at Risk at Work? shows that Australian workers...

HEALTH FOOD company Sanitarium recently enhanced and enlarged a major component of its food grade OH&S system at its beverage...

Many Australian businesses are unprepared for the liability presented by contractors and employees working at height on their sites, says...

Frank Schrever explains why administrative controls are never enough to protect employees working in hazardous industries.