Manufacturers among BRW’s 50 Most Innovative Companies

Manufacturers among BRW’s 50 Most Innovative Companies

First place may have gone to software provider Xero, but manufacturers featured prominently amongst this year’s list of BRW’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

Xero, a company which provides payroll software that allows small businesses to manage their payroll from anywhere was named most innovative, but no less than eight companies from the manufacturing category made the top 50.

These included: E-Bisprint, Hills, Coca-Cola Amatil, PernodRicard Winemakers, Keech Australia, Orora Group, Pact Group, Birch & Waite Foods.

The list also included mobile phone-based shark alerts, hard-hat-mounted health monitors, waste-saving high-rise building systems and technology to protect embryos during IVF processes.

The team ALNO Product Services assist all types of manufactures across Australia with CNC Machining and high quality toolmaking and tool making process.

So if your an Australian Manufacturer looking for CNC machining or high quality Toolmaking.

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Component Machining

ALNO Product Services is a Central Coast based engineering component manufacturing company that was established in 1988.

Our team offers a range of component machining services which include:

• Component Machining – Turning – Milling – Grinding - EDM
• German Tool Steel - Press Tools
• Japanese Tool Steel – Mould Tools
• Australian Aluminium - Extrusion dies
• Tool Steel Jigs and Fixtures
• Both Soft and Hard tooling

In general terms ALNO Product Services offer the following solutions:

• Component Manufacture
• Reverse Engineering
• Product Design – Industrial Design
• Prototype Production

Our Team can over engineer to ensure that you component exceed expectations in terms of desired engineering outcomes

ALNO will stretch your engineering dollar future without reducing

Whether you want 1 or 1000 components machined, ALNO is able to provide you with a quick turn around and a quality product.

Whether you require CNC milling, CNC Turning, EDM, wire cutting, we can help you produce the part you want.

Component machining at ALNO Product Services is offered in a wide range of materials including:

• Stainless Steel
• Mild Steel
• Tool Steels
• Aluminum
• Brass
• Bronze
• Plastics
• Ceramics

Whatever your component machining requirements be it from prototypes to full scale productions runs the team at ALNO offers a first class service.

Our commitment TQM total quality management suggests we engage polices of continuous improvement and reduction of waste. The ALNO TQM management policy focuses on the following:

1. Leadership
2. Strategic planning
3. Customer focus
4. Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management
5. Workforce focus
6. Operations focus
7. Results

Furthermore the both stake holders and Shareholders are committed to continual investment in Australian Manufacturing.

We are proud to offer the latest technology ensuring that we are able to supply parts to the highest quality whilst remaining competitive with our pricing.

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Poor Productivity Performance - Australia

The Business Council of Australia says the tapering mining boom meant the federal government had to continue making tough long term economic decisions despite setting an election date

Council president Tony Shepherd says he hopes the setting of September 14 as an election date did not mean there would be no reform for the next seven-and-a-half months.

Multi-factor productivity should be the number one priority and the government's first task should be getting modern workplaces for the future, he said.

Workplaces had to be adapted, flexible and relevant to the digital age and Australia's engagement with Asia.

"Workplaces that are focused on improving the productivity of people but that doesn't mean less pay for more work, that just means smarter work, more flexibility, more attuned to the demands of the economy," he told ABC TV's Inside Business.

"You've got to look at the causes of the poor productivity performance of Australia and address them and those things are taxation, regulation, workplace reform, infrastructure and skills and they are the priorities.

"But everything the government does should be looked at through the prism of does this improve our productivity, particularly given the fact that a lot of our sectors are battling against a very high Australian dollar which I think we are going to have for some time."

Shepherd said the enormous investment in resources had been masking low productivity and weakness in other sectors and as the boom tapers off, productivity had to improve or there would be real problems in resources, the rest of the economy and employment.

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Manufacturing Index - More Shrinkage

For 11 months now the Australian Industry Group Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) indicated shrinkage for the industry.

The seasonally-adjusted national composite index showed a result of 40.2 for January, down from December’s 44.3. A result below 50 indicates a contraction.

Every sub-sector experienced a decline except for wood and paper products, though the contraction for every sector except petroleum, coal, chemical and rubber eased.

"The well-entrenched pressures that have been confronting the manufacturing sector for several years are being compounded by a slowing in the broader economy,” said the Ai Group CEO Innes Willox in a statement.

“The extent of the contraction is reinforced by the ongoing contractions in January of the production, employment, new orders and exports sub-indicies of the Australian PMI®”

Respondents for the PMI survey listed soft demand and the high dollar as issues. The survey also noted that input costs and wages were up for January, while selling prices were down.

Bloomberg reports that the result is a 3 1/2 –year low for the industry, with the high dollar trumping any benefit that might have been experienced from lower interest rates. The Reserve bank cut rates when it met in December, but is not expected to do so again when it convenes on February 5, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

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Jump in energy costs - Austrailian Manufacturing

The results of a series of surveys by the Australian Industry Group have found manufacturers, especially those in food and beverage, reporting a jump in energy costs.

The average increase in energy costs reported was 14.5 per cent for the 485 firms surveyed in June, July and November. There were also in-depth surveys of manufacturers undertaken in July and August.
Innes Willox, the Ai Group’s CEO, said that niche groups including food manufacturers were suffering a "probably greater than anticipated" impact from the tax.

A third of those in manufacturing and construction “did not yet have enough information”  to asses the impact of the tax on their businesses.

One company, electrical cabling maker Tycab Australia, estimated that it had seen its energy bill increase $120,000 to nearly $700,000 a year.

"We put out a letter to our customers and told them about the carbon tax effect and we were told quite clearly they were not going to accept price increases," Tycab’s owner Greg Northrop told News Limited.
Almost half (49 per cent) of respondents saw an immediate increase in their input costs when the tax was introduced on July 1 last year. 61 per cent of manufacturers reported an immediate increase in energy costs.

“Our broad survey results show food manufacturers appear to be facing the greatest profit squeeze as a result of the carbon tax, with over 90 per cent reporting price rises for at least some of their inputs, but only 10 per cent of food processing businesses being able to pass those costs on to their customers,”