Australia needs to back itself
By Rob Williamson, President of the Gladstone Engineering Alliance and Managing Director of Alpha HPA. I had the opportunity to join business leaders from across Australia at an Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry event in Sydney last week alongside Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres. The conversation focused on […]
Call for entries for Kemppi Australia’s 2026 Art of Welding Competition
Kemppi Australia has launched its 2026 Art of Welding Competition, inviting welders, artists and metalworking enthusiasts to demonstrate their creativity through original metalwork creations. The competition celebrates the artistic possibilities of welding, with entrants encouraged to submit works including sculptures, decorative pieces, motifs, patterned designs and other fabricated objects. Projects […]
Colli’s $5.5m manufacturing facility upgrade to help fast-track housing
A $5.5 million upgrade of Colli Timber & Hardware’s manufacturing facility in Cardup is set to quadruple the number of framing systems the company can craft each year, helping to fast-track WA’s housing supply. Colli will match the $2.734 million recently awarded to its parent company, Cardoso Pty Ltd, through […]
Australian manufacturers are facing their biggest energy risk in decades – Most haven’t noticed yet
By Jonathan Pooch Let me be direct: most Australian manufacturers are carrying a significant energy risk right now, and most of them don’t know it. That world of low, stable energy prices where energy sat in the engineering manager’s inbox and not the boardroom is gone. And the organisations that […]
Wind and Transmission Towers a Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity for Australian Manufacturing
Weld Australia says renewable infrastructure build-out can unlock jobs, capability and regional industrial growth Weld Australia has welcomed growing momentum behind domestic wind and transmission tower manufacturing, describing it as one of the most significant industrial opportunities available to Australia’s fabrication, steel and manufacturing sectors. The Federal […]
Cooling is becoming the constraint: how data centre design is changing under pressure
Data centres have traditionally been designed with a focus on compute capacity, with cooling treated as a supporting system that can be scaled as needed. That assumption no longer holds. As demand for data processing continues to grow, driven by cloud services and artificial intelligence, cooling is becoming a primary […]
Power surge: Deakin study finds sharing energy cuts costs and boosts fairness
Australia’s first-ever large-scale randomised control trial exploring a new technology that enables households and small businesses to buy and sell solar and battery power, has found to have increased access to solar and battery use, lower electricity prices, and encourage greater perceptions of a fairer energy system. The Virtual Energy […]
Fuji SMBE Macquarie and New Edge Group deliver critical electrical infrastructure for major fulfilment centre
Fuji SMBE Macquarie and New Edge Group have collaborated to deliver critical electrical infrastructure to a major new fulfilment centre in Western Sydney, NSW. This project is the first of two new fulfilment centres being built, with $490 million being invested across both facilities. This first facility spans 80,000 square […]
Adelaide Manufacturing and Innovation to Take Centre Stage at ROKLive 2026
Key sponsor Business Events Adelaide supports the future of industrial automation ROKLive 2026 will build on the success of ROKLive 2025 (pictured) on the Gold Coast, which saw more than 900 problem solvers come together for keynotes, training, networking and a showcase of the latest industrial automation technologies. Rockwell Automation, […]
Boresight lists on ASX
Boresight Ltd (ASX: BST), an Australian defence-technology company specialising in low-cost aerial target drones for counter-drone training, today commences trading on the Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney, following a strongly supported $8 million initial public offering. Managing Director and CEO Justin Olde says, “A lot of people have put in a […]
Engineers explore pneumatic air spring actuation for 30-40 per cent boost to outputs of industrial energy and rural solar farms
Urban business including commercial, manufacturing and processing plants have been quick to recognise the cost efficiencies of solar power Australia is on track for 82% renewable energy by 2030, according to the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. This doubling of green energy’s share of the […]
Agricultural spraying specialist HARDI curtails downtime and wear with robust LAPP cable harnesses
LAPP cable harnessing solutions built for harsh Australian environments are delivering durability, traceability, and reliability benefits to agricultural spraying equipment specialist, HARDI. Agricultural spraying equipment specialist HARDI is using robust, traceable, and fit-for-purpose cable harnessing solutions from LAPP Australia to reduce downtime, improve reliability, and extend equipment longevity. […]
Australia needs to back itself
By Rob Williamson, President of the Gladstone Engineering Alliance and Managing Director of Alpha HPA. I had the opportunity to join business leaders from across Australia at an Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry event in Sydney last week alongside Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres. The conversation focused on Australia’s industrial future, how we remain globally competitive, attract investment and build the industries that will underpin our economy for decades to come. It’s an important conversation because the world isn’t standing still. Supply chains are being redrawn, investment is becoming increasingly competitive and countries around the world are moving quickly to secure the industries that will drive future economic growth. Despite that, I believe Australia has every reason to be confident to meet this moment. We have world-class natural resources, outstanding research capability, highly skilled people and a reputation as one of the world’s most trusted trading partners. More importantly, we have the capability to do far more than simply export raw materials. We have the opportunity to manufacture the high-value products the world increasingly demands. But potential doesn’t become prosperity on its own. It requires businesses prepared to innovate, pragmatic governments prepared to provide internationally competitive policy settings, investors prepared to back long-term opportunities and industries willing to work together. It also requires us to recognise where Australia’s strengths already exist and continue building on them. From where I sit, Gladstone is one of those strengths. As President of the Gladstone Engineering Alliance, I see every day both the opportunities ahead and the practical challenges of turning vision into investment. I also see the capability that exists across our region. More than 100 engineering and industrial businesses make up the GEA membership, employing thousands of people who design, fabricate, build, maintain and operate some of Australia’s most significant […]