Dr Jackson Yin’s kit home business pivoted online during lockdown, thanks to a $50,000 Business Victoria innovation grant.
Image of Banksia home which are being manufactured and shipped to Senegal for a German Foreign Aid project
Manufacturing
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Person holding a handful of a mix of green and dark olives
The good oil: Corio’s Cobram Estate Olives pumps up export arm
Australia’s largest olive oil producer, headquartered in Corio, is making inroads into Japan, Korea, and the US.
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Meet the Chair of the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards
Celina Clarke has been in the design business for over thirty years and says the awards create a benchmark for design excellence.
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How a Bendigo family engineering business has the world in a spin
From a revolving restaurant in Qatar, to a Las Vegas casino bar, to a Tehran telecommunication tower, Australian Turntable Company has gone global.
From the ground up: Ballarat’s Laura Chibnall takes out top mining award
We profile Laura Chibnall who is this year’s Minerals Council of Australia Exceptional Woman in Resources for Victoria.
Drone equipment
Family business SYPAQ is right at home in Fishermans Bend
David Vicino speaks about family and work as if they’re one and the same – because for his family-owned business, they are.
World's first eye imaging device wins Premier's Design Award
World-first eye imaging device wins Victorian Premier's Design Award
Cobalt Design in North Melbourne has taken out the Victorian Premier’s Design Award’s top honour for a revolutionary eye testing machine.
Chris from Sailors Grave pouring his brew in a glass structure
Sailors Grave sets sail on new adventure
VIDEO: After the 2019 bushfires, the couple behind Sailors Grave brewery are finally about to realise their ambition of building a tourist destination
Mat Bowtell
Meet the Phillip Island engineer delivering free 3D-printed hands to the world
Phillip Island based engineer, Mat Bowtell, made an unusual choice after he was retrenched from the automotive industry – he decided to work for free.
Man in factory setting packing a box. He is smiling at the camera.
Jobs Victoria linking job-seekers and employers
This one-of-a-kind program has helped almost 10,000 people find a job since 2016.
Rochelle
Meet Victoria’s 2019 Woman Manufacturer of the Year
A leading light in the production of cancer diagnostic instruments, Rochelle Avinu was recognised at the Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame awards.
Portrait Nicholas Orchowski
Meet Victoria’s 2019 Young Manufacturer of the Year
Find out how a 32-year-old engineer is adding value to our state’s aircraft manufacturing sector.
Portrait shot of John O’Callaghan
Meet Victoria’s new Defence Industry Advocate
Building up our local defence industry is on the radar for John O’Callaghan.
Don Matthews
Local Jobs First Commission working for Victorians
WATCH THE VIDEO: We met with Victoria’s Local Jobs First Commissioner Don Matthews to talk about his work.
The Australian delegation in Mobile, Alabama, with an Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship at Austal USA.
Naval shipbuilding: a digital future in advanced manufacturing
Victorian businesses are poised to capitalise on the next revolution in manufacturing, dubbed Industry 4.0.
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Melbourne’s mining credentials on display
VIDEO: Australia's largest mining event was on in Melbourne. We speak to a team of technology makers whose new product could change mining.
Artist impression of High Capacity Metro Train
High capacity trains on track for manufacturing and jobs
Across the High Capacity Metro Trains Project, local workers are getting a go in Victoria’s next manufacturing boom.
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Get your business moving with the Small Business Bus
Could your business do with some free one-on-one advice? Then jump aboard the Small Business Bus.
