Tag Archives: Australian Manufacturing Outlook

3D printing builds following

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Manufacturing via 3D printers can help SME manufacturers claw back a competitive advantage.  Samantha Hutchinson from the Australian Financial Review reports.  Click here to read more.

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For want of a nail

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Australian manufacturing is ailing but something can be done to stop the rot and begin to rebuild it as globally competitive and relevant.  Bruce Grey provides comment to David James, BRW. Click here to read more.

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Australian Manufacturing

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Dr Roy Green, Dean of the Business School at the University of Technology Sydney makes some excellent points in his assessment of Australia’s manufacturing industry at the government’s Future Jobs Forum, but he misses the main one: he completely ignores the need for Australian SMEs …

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A message from Bruce Grey

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Manufacturing is currently generating lots of media coverage. This is important as the community needs to become engaged in the debate and to participate in deciding what type of economic mix Australia has in the future. We have seen the past Prime Minister Paul Keating …

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Australian Manufacturing Outlook

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Australian manufacturing has big challenges ahead looking out to 2021. The sector has already undergone significant transformation over the last 10 years but it’s likely to speed up in the next decade. We are looking at a potential transformation of the sector. The AMCRC has …

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Rising raw material cost crunch

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The big challenge for manufacturers now is the rising cost of raw materials, largely driven by growing demand from Asia. These costs are hitting corporate profits, not to mention share prices, and pushing up consumer prices. There are no quick fixes here, soaring raw material …

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Big Challenges in Manufacturing

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EXTRACT OF AMCRC SUBMISSION TO THE VCEC INQUIRY.  Click here to see the full submission. Australia’s manufacturing industry is now at the cross roads. It faces four big challenges: the high exchange rate, the planned introduction of a carbon price, the impact of new science …

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