Tag: Manufacturing

Welding professionals, educators and manufacturers gathered in Perth as Weld Australia announced the winners of its 2025 Western Australia Welding Excellence Awards, recognising leadership and innovation across the state’s fabrication and manufacturing sectors.

Australia’s manufacturing and commercial property sectors are expected to play a central role in what Savills Australia describes as a $50-billion-plus investment upswing in 2026, driven by renewed confidence, liquidity events and growing demand for industrial spaces. 

Researchers at the University of Sydney have demonstrated a new way to suppress noise in microchip-scale Brillouin lasers by introducing nanoscale “speed bumps” inside the devices’ optical cavity. 

TXM Lean Solutions, an international lean consulting company headquartered in Australia, has released its Manufacturing Global Snapshot Report, outlining what it describes as a challenging operating environment for manufacturers across Australia, the UK, New Zealand, the US and Canada over the past year.

Australia’s manufacturing sector featured prominently in the latest increase in business investment, with new capital expenditure rising 6.4 per cent in the September quarter, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Altech Batteries has announced the completion of the final engineering design for its new-generation SNC UPS battery system, marking what the company describes as a key manufacturing and commercialisation step in its European rollout.

The Queensland Government has announced the official opening of the Maryborough Manufacturing Centre of Excellence, stating the upgraded facility will play a key role in expanding skills and training for Queensland’s advanced manufacturing workforce.

Global healthcare company Sanofi will become the first tenant of the Translational Research Institute’s (TRI) new ENTRI biomanufacturing facility in Brisbane, the Institute announced, marking what it described as a significant milestone for Queensland’s biomedical sector.

ClearVue Technologies has announced that manufacturing of its Gen3 Solar Vision Glass has reached a key milestone, with the first production-quality units now prepared for submission for official certification. 

The Australian Government has launched new digital tools designed to improve visibility and support growth in the nation’s rail manufacturing sector, announcing the release of an expanded Rolling Stock Capability Index and updates to the National Rolling Stock Procurement Pipeline.