More than three decades after his father founded the company, John Petrou is continuing the Brisbane-based Apex Insulation success story and recently invested in automation equipment to boost the shop’s productivity. Founded in 1983, Apex Insulation has been working with…
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The future lies in automation
Pete Shaw is a man who loves a challenge. The local Kilcoy man launched Pacific Manufacturing in Queensland in 2006. A small shop run by himself and a friend, its work centres on building tractor slashers and shade umbrellas. Now,…
Cutting-edge signage solutions
Signs need to deliver a clear message to avoid confusion, which is why all signs are custom-made to help brands inform, instruct and look good in all the right places. Melbourne-based Signcraft Group designs and manufactures its complete range of…
Automated duct board and fibreglass cutting boosts productivity
By nature, manual processes can be far more costly than those that are automated with the right tools. However, for certain types of operations, the motivation to automate goes beyond potential cost and time savings. Cutting a batt or sheet…
ART meets changing demands in trade education
Australia’s premier manufacturer of CNC routers and plasma cutters, Advanced Robotic Technology (ART), has recently attended the Engineering TAFE Senate conference at Southwest TAFE, Warrnambool, VIC, to show how partnerships between ART and tertiary education providers around the country will…
En Route to Success
Aluminium Dynamics’ decision to bring all its aluminium cutting in-house with the purchase of two Australian-made CNC routers has resulted in improved component quality and efficiency. At sunrise this winter, a new 25-metre vessel will be sighted docking at a…
Setting new standards
A high demand for its products and eager plans to drastically reduce lead-times led Australia’s largest bus manufacturer – Volgren – to invest in a Australian-built CNC router from Brisbane-based Advanced Robotic Technology (ART) – the 16000SX. The new router…
Advanced technology for the world’s seas
Replacing plasma cutters with CNC routers has improved production processes in the workshops of a world leading manufacturer of aluminium vessels. Visitors to Austal’s Australian shipyards in Henderson, WA, will notice a substantial change in the arrangement of one of…