Australian deli meat producer D’Orsogna has begun construction on a $66 million manufacturing facility in Melbourne. D’Orsogna has been in operation since 1949 and supplies deli meats to Woolworths,...

Australian dairy co-operative Murray Goulburn has announced that it has been bought by Saputo for A$1.3 billion. Murray Goulburn, formed in 1950 and home to ten processing plants in Tasmania, New South...

Australia’s food industry contribution to national manufacturing has increased by 30 per cent over the past seven years according to a new Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFCG) report. Food and...

McCain Foods has completed stage one of the $57 million upgrade of its Ballarat potato plant. Working with Ballarat City Council, McCain has finished work to improve access to the plant and to remove parked...

Not being able to count on your equipment to work when production is scheduled, makes it unreliable. And in the manufacturing industry, unreliable equipment has a bigger cost than just in dollars ­–...

Sometimes, the coders on a production line marking products, cartons and pallets, are a rather motley crew — “diverse” models is one way to put it, but “miscellaneous and disparate” could be...

Pet food producer, Ridley, has sold its 25 per cent share in an Inverell manufacturing facility. It is expected the sale will generate approximately AUD $3 million for Ridley. The decision to sell comes...

The first digitally native generation likes to cook, spend, has a unique sense of self, an optimistic outlook on life, an untraditional approach to life stages and relies heavily on digital technology....

To compete well, quality is king in manufacturing. But unless you’re producing hand-crafted bespoke furniture, the demand for more products, more quickly means it’s just not feasible to rely on human...

By Mark Dingley* With companies facing increasing pressure to squeeze as much productivity as they can from their assets, more Australian manufacturers and processors are looking to Overall Equipment...