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@AuManufacturing Conversations is a regular interview program hosted by Brent Balinski (with other hosts occasionally) bringing you discussions with the folks who are contributing to a critical part of Australia's economy.
We hope to capture something of the variety of manufacturing, its place in the nation, its changing nature, and some of the personalities within it.
From the boutique to the billion dollar, if it's manufacturing and it's Australian, then it likely matters to us. This podcast is an extension of the @AuManufacturing news and analysis website and the community around it, and complements what's written online at www.aumanufacturing.com.au.
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Alf Taylor and Nadia Taylor from TNA Solutions 33:05

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Send us a text This episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations is the opening session of our June 25 Spotlight on Scaling Up seminar. Alf Taylor, Managing Director & Co-founder at TNA Solutions, and Nadia Taylor, the company's Director and Co-founder, share their story. The keynote speakers share their adventure from husband-and-wife engineering consultancy to an international food packaging and processing solution provider with a headcount of over 600 and offices in 30 countries, which began with one invention for bagging snack food quicker than anything else available. Episode guide 0:36 – Introduction to the event and the presenters 5:02 – How Alf and Nadia Taylor met. “We fell in love among the potato chips” at Arnott’s Snack Foods. 6:22 – The company’s origins and the breakthrough invention, the Robag. 7:45 – Customer Smith’s Chips Australia funds the first Robag. 9:15 – The intention was always to remain a family-owned business. 10:05 – Setting up the first overseas office in Birmingham, UK. 11:20 – The difficulties of being Australian and some unfair preconceptions. 12:20 – The ANCA connection. 14:15 – Patent protection didn’t stop three overseas copycats. It took five years and $6.5 million, but they won the case and $8.5 million. 16:05 – Going from a bagging equipment maker to providing the entire line to food companies. 19:30 – Maintaining customer relations across so many markets. 20:30 – Middle East misunderstandings. 22:03 – The company’s biggest project. 23:01 – The origins and focus of the Nadia and Alf Taylor Foundation. 26:10 – If you’re dedicated, you can make an internationally-relevant business. It doesn’t even have to be high-tech. 28:18 – Even with the headaches, patents were still worthwhile. 29:35 – The importance of an early grant to help get overseas. 31:10 – Australia is a brilliant place to do it, believes TNA. Further reading Spotlight on Scaling Up event wrap-up Introducing Spotlight on Scaling Up: an unmissable June 25 event about one of Australian manufacturing’s key issues TNA solutions offers digital twins technology for food manufacturers Australia’s niche champions – tna Solutions innovates to success TNA opens second Sydney site for confectionery equipment…

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Episode 126 -- Professor Henrik von Scheel from Strategic Alliance 30:18

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Send us a text In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , published in partnership with Hannover Messe’s Industrial Transformation Australia event, Simran Gill speaks to Professor Henrik von Scheel, the strategist who coined the term "Industry 4.0". He warns that Australia risks becoming a mere consumer of technology rather than a producer if it continues following global best practices instead of charting its own course in the Fourth Industrial Revolution @AuManufacturing is a media partner for Industrial Transformation Australia 2025. You can find more information about this free event – to be held July 22-24 at The Dome, Sydney Olympic Park – here . Further reading…

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Episode 125 -- “It can happen here” with Martin Ripple from ANCA, Simon Crane from Lovells Group, Jon Bulman from Finisar, and David Martin from the Australian Industry Group 34:41

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Send us a text This episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations is the “It can happen here” session recorded at our June 25 Spotlight on Scaling Up seminar. The panel features leaders from three established manufacturing companies that have grown handsomely through international leadership within their respective niches. How have they changed their industry? How do they continue to stay relevant? And how do they address the challenges of doing this from Australia? The moderator is David Martin, the Australian Industry Group's Director of Emerging Industries and Innovation. The panel guests are: - Martin Ripple, CEO, ANCA; - Jon Bulman, Senior Director of Manufacturing, Finisar; and - Simon Crane, CEO, Lovells Group Spotlight on Scaling Up was hosted by @AuManufacturing in partnership with AMGC, BDO, and the Australian Business Growth Fund. Episode guide 0:50 – An introduction to the panel 2:00 – Panellists introduce themselves 5:56 – The one government grant that Lovells won, the horrors attached to it, and the lessons from it. 7:35 – ““That was a great example of focussing on the grant, not on whether this is a good idea at all.” 7:50 – A lesson learned at Finisar from a difficult project after “a period of pain”. 9:22 – It’s very easy to pick to wrong country before trying to export, and some lessons from ANCA on this. 11:10 – Why Lovells is attached to making it here. “I come from employing a lot of Australians. I really like it and I’m just not interested in building factories overseas.” 12:29 – Finisar’s approach to production and its supply chain. “A good balance” has been established across South Korea, China and Australia. 15:30 – The “Australian government should” issue and why companies should maybe ignore it and be masters of their own destiny. 17:35 – Issues of scale versus the United States market. “It’s not one order of magnitude…difference.” 18:45 – Ripple’s libertarian point of view when it comes to the government’s role. 19:44 – Government has a role, but it cannot supply the key ingredient of passion that startups need. 20:52 – Creating a culture of believing we could do it. 22:05 – The mentality of looking to Asian factories first among startups. 23:18 – A case for propaganda to convince Australians that we can manufacture. 24:10 – A question on access to finance from an audience member to the “landed gentry”. 26:40 – A question for ANCA about customer service, and an EOFY sales offer. 27:50 – Succession difficulties. 29:30 – Increases in the cost of doing business in Australia. 30:35 – “You can turn red tape into a profit.” 32:02 – Australian biotech and why it so often ends up overseas. 33:12 – The peculiar situation of being US-owned and owning a Chinese factory.…

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Episode 124 -- Professor Veena Sahajwalla from UNSW Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) 11:07

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Send us a text In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , published in partnership with Hannover Messe’s Industrial Transformation Australia event, Professor Veena Sahajwalla tells us about working at “the exciting new frontier” of recycling, where Australian companies can contribute globally, and more. @AuManufacturing is a media partner for Industrial Transformation Australia 2025. You can find more information about this free event – to be held July 22-24 at The Dome, Sydney Olympic Park – here . Episode guide 1.18 – introduction 2:35 – Forming and progressing industry partnerships, for example recycling e-waste into 3D printing filament with Renew IT. 4:10 – Going beyond the traditional way of thinking about recycling. 5:50 – People are noticing Australian recycling technology internationally. 7:03 – What Australians do well. 8:02 – The critical thing about recycling and remanufacturing. 9:22 – “End of life products are literally just products waiting to be remade into something else.”…

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Episode 123 -- "Patient capital: how long tech takes at times" with James Walker from BluGlass, Geoff Bell from MicroBioGen, Phil Hodgson from Calix, and Ryan Pollett from BDO 36:05

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Send us a text This episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations is the "Patient capital: how long tech takes at times" session recorded at our June 25 Spotlight on Scaling Up seminar. SoSU was hosted by @AuManufacturing in partnership with BDO, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, and the Australian Business Growth Fund. The panel featured three high-tech businesses, each of which took many years to develop and prove their technology through to eventual adoption, and each of which remains strongly focussed on R&D. It was moderated by Ryan Pollett, Partner, Audit & Assurance, National Leader, Manufacturing & Wholesale, BDO. The panel guests are: * James Walker, Chair, BluGlass; * Geoff Bell, CEO, MicroBioGen; and * Phil Hodgson, CEO and Managing Director, Calix. Episode guide 0:12 – Introduction to the panel. 3:22 – A very brief history of MicroBioGen from CEO Geoff Bell. 4:43 – A very brief history of Calix from CEO and Managing Director Dr Phil Hodgson. 6:46 – A very brief history of BluGlass from Chairman James Walker 10:02 – Baker’s yeast and why MicroBiogen focussed on it. 10:55 – How MicroBioGen made investor money last and kept everyone happy during the long period between Series A and their first customer. 12:10 – Having a platform technology and being tempted by the “bright, shiny ball.” 13:06 – What makes a bad patent, and why the worthwhile IP resides with staff. 13:55 – The gallium nitride semiconductor niche. 15:12 – Maximising R&D investment and keeping management costs down. 17:02 – Government assistance for R&D. 18:02 – Spending two years unravelling a $30 million convertible note. 19:02 – On capital raises: “When the ducks are quacking, feed the ducks”. 20:08 – You can be a listed company that also requires patient capital, but it requires transparency with investors. 22:32 – Why MicroBioGen’s strategy was to work with the world’s biggest and best, and why that took a lot of time and effort. 25:16 – Why Calix looked overseas for partnerships with cement companies. 27:02 – The turning point for BluGlass seven years ago with laser diodes. 29:12 – A few words on convertible notes. 30:50 – Lessons from the heady valuations at the peak of the decarbonisation wave. 33:20 – The dream of creating a GaN chip manufacturing industry in Australia, 34:20 – Be willing to accept a pay cut if you want to be involved in a startup technology company. Further reading MicroBioGen, Lesaffre announce exclusive worldwide licensing and collaboration deal on industrial yeast technology BluGlass raises $5.3 million in SPP Introducing Spotlight on Scaling Up: an unmissable June 25 event about one of Australian manufacturing’s key issues Winners announced at 2024’s Australian Export Awards In the strain game Calix raises $25 million to speed low carbon commercialisation Calix green iron tech recognised at UN clima…

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Episode 122 -- Dr Ian Mann from BluGlass 29:59

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Send us a text In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations, Simran Gill speaks to Dr Ian Mann, CTO of semiconductor business BluGlass, about why deep tech companies must prepare for scale from day one and embrace long development timelines. Further reading BluGlass raises $5.3 million in SPP BluGlass secures $2.9 million sub-contract through US microelectronics hub BluGlass to provide chips for blue ocean LiDAR project BluGlass completes GaNWorks acquisition BluGlass launches laser diode range at US industry event BluGlass demonstrates working laser diodes…

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Episode 121 -- John Broadbent from Realise Potential 11:09

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Send us a text In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations, John Broadbent tells us about the worrying prevalence of fully-depreciated equipment in Australia's industry, explains why a smart factory he helped build in 2011 has only become more productive in the years since, and more. @AuManufacturing is a media partner for Industrial Transformation Australia 2025, which Broadbent will be a speaker at. You can find more information about this free event – to be held July 22-24 at The Dome, Sydney Olympic Park – at this link . Episode guide 0:56 – An introduction. Approaching a 50th anniversary in the industry. 3:28 – Industrial Transformation Australia and his message on practical transformation and not getting stuck in “pilot purgatory”. 4:15 – Why organisations need bottom-up and top-down buy-in and get to “proof of value”. 6:16 – A lack of understanding from many companies on what Industry 4 is. 7:10 – Poor level of industrial sophistication in Australia. 8:10 – A remarkable number of factories not on a stable network that can mine data in real time, plus an anecdote about inefficient operations at one company. 9:58 – The need for investment and, again, strategy.…

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Episode 120 -- Dr Rosemary Wyber, Professor Glenn Pearson and Associate Professor Laurens Manning 30:36

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Send us a text When a critical medication that protects Australia's most vulnerable communities runs short, who pays the price? A new investigation reveals the shocking gaps in our pharmaceutical sovereignty. In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations, Simran Gill learns about Australia's pharmaceutical manufacturing challenges and the experts' detailed proposals for sovereign medicine production. Featuring - Dr Rosemary Wyber, Senior Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia; - Associate Professor Glenn Pearson, Director of First Nations Strategy at The Kids Research Institute Australia; and - Associate Professor Laurens Manning from The University of Western Australia. Further reading Call for homegrown medicine production as penicillin imports dry up…

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Episode 119 -- Paul Childers from BDO Australia 12:21

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Send us a text Spotlight on Scaling Up is an event by @AuManufacturing and sponsored by BDO, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, and the Australian Business Growth Fund. Join us at UTS Building 8, 14–28 Ultimo Road to learn the importance of the issue at an economy-wide level, how world-class local enterprises have grown out of the small business category and beyond, and how you can apply their lessons to your business. TICKETS AND INFO HERE here: https://events.humanitix.com/spotlight-on-scaling-up In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , we hear from Paul Childers, Partner in BDO's Deal Advisory team in Sydney. He tells about some of the things that private equity investors will stress test in a manufacturer, how you can command a higher multiple, and more. Episode guide 0:53 – An introduction to Childers and his work. 1:58 – The issue of scale’s importance in manufacturing at a macro and micro level. 4:15 – How to get the best valuation when fronting potential investors 6:02 – What a bank is looking for vs an investor 7:02 – Articulating a clear value proposition 8:15 – The importance of investor materials and what these should include 9:28 – There are different kinds of investors, and it’s important to look at a number of them. 10:55 – Spotlight on Scaling Up and Childers’ presentation, which will look at what makes a manufacturing company valuable through an investor’s lens.…

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Episode 118 -- Rachel Reilly from Ethical Clothing Australia 21:34

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Send us a text In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , Rachel Reilly from Ethical Clothing Australia tells us about the shape of the Australian TCF sector and its workforce, the importance of government procurement, what international trade issues could mean, and more. You can find out about the Ethically Made In Australia Week Pop-Up Event here . It runs Thursday June 26 – Sunday June 29, 2025, at 306-308 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC Episode guide 0:30 – Career path 1:50 – What Ethical Clothing Australia does 3:54 – The TCF industry in Australia in terms of its economic value 5:10 – Data on the industry’s size and some of the shortcomings of these figures 6:03 – Most businesses are on the smaller side. 7:10 – The workforce and some of the difficulties in properly accounting for it. 8:24 – The highly-feminised nature of the workforce 9:55 – A large proportion of the workforce is born overseas 10:54 – The market for what’s made here. It tends to be geared towards quality and an ethically-conscious consumer. 11:55 – The importance of government procurement to the sector 13:02 – Regarding trade uncertainties and what they mean for this industry. 15:25 – A maturing workforce, skills shortages, and the ability to ramp up production if needed. 17:41 – Ethically Made In Australia popup from June 25th to June 29 in Fitzroy 19:16 – Ethical Clothing Week in October 20:25 – Where listeners can find out more Further reading Ethical Clothing Australia's website Rediscovering our ability to spin a yarn TCF’s commitment to ethical local manufacturing and jobs Andrews says buying locally important “now more than ever”…

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Episode 117 -- David Smirk from Phibion 53:34

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Episode 116 -- Dr Joe Berry from the University of Melbourne and Dr Peter Sherrell from RMIT University 36:35

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Send us a text In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , Simran Gill speaks to Dr Joe Berry and Dr Peter Sherrell, from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University respectively, who have discovered that water generates an electrical charge up to 10 times greater than previously understood when it moves across a surface. The pair reveal their groundbreaking "stick-slip" motion research and what it means for manufacturing, fuel safety, and energy storage. Further reading Scientists shocked by water’s hidden electrical power…

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Episode 115 -- Oliver Hunt from Medsalv 19:11

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Episode 114 -- Dr Warren McKenzie from HB11 Energy 26:19

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Send us a text Welcome to this special episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , which is part of our annual Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign. It's been made possible through the support of Australia Wide Engineering Recruitment, TXM Lean Solutions, the Industry Capability Network, Bonfiglioli Australia, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre and the SmartCrete CRC. In this episode we hear from Dr Warren McKenzie, co-founder and Managing Director of fusion energy hopeful HB11 Energy. He tells us about the progress of fusion and the global race to bring it to energy grids, his company's origins in the work of a German-Australian who "defined the field of laser fusion at large", and more. Episode guide 1:35 – career path and what HB11 does. Making clean energy using lasers, and, more recently, making those lasers. 2:30 – A career in commercialisation, beginning with a new lithography technique using diamonds. 3:30 – “Very few people realise or understand how to commercialise any technology.” 4:22 – Time at ANFF and the importance of science communication. 5:35 – Why Heinrich Hora’s contribution to Australian physics and laser fusion is so important. Plus how Hora and Mackenzie teamed up. 7:18 – “He really defined the field of laser fusion at large”, and started the community that led to the US NIF achieving a net energy gain. 8:04 – How fusion works, for the uninitiated, and its similarities to nuclear fission. 9:45 – The waste product is nothing radioactive. It’s just helium. 10:25 – Helium is in short supply and will become more scarce. 10:57 – Some similarities between the ongoing quests to realise fusion energy and useful quantum computing. 12:40 – The two camps in fusion: magnetic or inertial/laser, and an explanation of their progress so far. 14:52 – The company’s breakthrough in 2022, “when we were cowboys”, demonstrating that laser fusion could potentially work. 16:25 – The role of manufacturing lasers in-house in HB11’s progress. 18:04 – How far along they are with their approach to fusion and their plans to make laser modules. 19:35 – Investors so far. 20:50 – The role of international collaborators, such as ELI ERIC (Extreme Light Infrastructure, part of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium ) 22:55 – Plans to commercialise what they do. This includes licensing their design, and manufacturing lasers and fuel pellets. 24:23 – Innovation is about the courage to do something new. 25:15 – The next generation of manufacturing will be very different to what we’re used to. Further reading Australia’s HB11 Energy aims for laser fusion energy Fusion energy quest hots up at Deakin and HB11 Energy UNSW researchers secure $5.5 million for quantum computing, fusion and other projects Australian fusion energy company to partner with ELI ERIC How far has nuclear fusion power come? We could be at a turning point for the technology…

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Episode 113 -- Dr Ebbe Dommisse from IonDrive 28:02

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Send us a text Welcome to this special episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations , which is part of our annual Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign. It's been made possible through the support of Australia Wide Engineering Recruitment, TXM Lean Solutions, the Industry Capability Network, Bonfiglioli Australia, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre and the SmartCrete CRC. In this episode we hear from Ebbe Dommisse, CEO of IonDrive, an ASX-listed battery recycling company commercialising research breakthroughs from University of Adelaide. He tells us about the "solvometallurgy" approach the company is focussed on, some lessons on the battery industry we could borrow from the EU, why invention is separate from innovation, and more. Episode guide 1:15 – Chemical engineering PhD then advanced manufacturing. 2:30 – Established as a University of Adelaide spinout. Information about the research at the university and the transition from Southern Gold to what the company does now (formalised June 2024.) 4:04 – An explanation of black mass and what’s in it. 5:30 – Black mass and its importance in terms of supply chain sovereignty. 80 per cent of it is shipped back to China for processing because nations like the US and the EU lack the capacity. 11 million tonnes is predicted to be on-market by 2040. 6:59 – An explanation of deep eutectic solvents, which are behind Iondrive’s processing technology, contrasted with hydrometallurgy and pyrometallugy families of metals recovery. 8:50 – A closed loop process without the waste streams or energy demands of other recycling types used for battery materials. 10:08 – A simplified explanation of Deep Eutectic Solvent processing involving teabags. 13:10 – Pilot plant commissioning in late-2025 and the activities leading up to this to determine if the technology would scale up viably. 15:25 – It’s not a value chain, it’s a value circle, with Iondrive addressing black mass processing and creating PCAM. 16:20 – Recent capital raise and starting with semi-continuous work in January, the first step in moving from batch to continuous processes. To be completed in two months. 17:48 – Countries including Australia don’t need to reinvent the wheel on battery materials processing. Where the country can make a difference and borrow from what the EU has done (e.g. banning black mass exports and implementing the battery passport.) 20:04 – Thomas Friedman’s observations on China capitalising on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) 22:57 – What makes a company innovative. Goran Roos’s “lovely definition” of innovation and what we can learn from one incubator in Finland. 24:50 – Let’s not confuse innovation with invention. 25:40 – Long-termism and the kind of manufacturing that works in Australia. An investigation comparing Switzerland with Australia. What we have here that can be leveraged. Further reading Our Bar-Napkin Presidency (by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times) Iondrive raises $6 million to progress DES battery recycling tech Iondrive claims robustness improvement in battery recycling process $22.5 million Early Career Industry Fellowships round supports r…

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