Metalworking & Machining Feature Articles

The patchwork economy seems to be getting patchier by the day.

An international research team has discovered a new material, superdense aluminium, which has never before been found on Earth.

The government says Australia is recreating itself, and building a new economy on a new type of manufacturing. Industry sees it differently.

The mining boom is supposed to making us better off - so why doesn't it feel that way?

As the debate around Australia’s skills shortage rumbles on, industry is looking to technology as a way to beat the problem.

Choosing the right tool for a job isn’t always as simple as it seems, but ask yourself the right questions, and it can be.

Innovative Australians are improving the things they make and the way they make them, ensuring a fairer, richer, healthier and greener future.

With a new financial year upon us, <em>IndustrySearch</em> takes a look at the likely winners and losers across the industrial landscape in the coming 12 months.

Some industries hate it, others love it, but at least the details of carbon pricing are out now.

Despite a tough decade, manufacturing in Australia still has a promising future if it focuses on getting closer to the customer and improving the value proposition, says Kathy Rankin ...

Australian Industry Group members say lack of trained staff will present a "high risk factor" in the next five years.

Pat Boland was appointed president of the Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Limited (AMTIL) in January this year. Boland is a founding partner of the ANCA machine tool ...

The question lingering over the latest bout of weak economic figures is whether they have been depressed temporarily by adverse weather or reveal a longer-lasting economic malaise.

Industrial relations (IR) is an all-encompassing term for the relationships existing between employers, workers and their representatives.

Excessive pressure at work is costing Australia's economy $730 million a year due to job-stress related depression, a University of Melbourne and VicHealth report has revealed.

Feature of the week: Within five years China's economy will be almost equal in size to the world's largest economy, that of the United States.

Feature of the week: More safety awareness in producing personal protection equipment (PPE) clothing is imperative if accidents are to be averted in sensitive voltage areas.

Feature of the week: The first half of 2010 has proven to be a very good period for companies involved in structural engineering, primarily those that provide engineering services ...

Only 38 per cent of Generation X, tertiary qualified women participating in a long-running University of Melbourne study or work full-time, compared to 90 per cent of Generation X, ...

Feature of the week: Every year Australian businesses purchase millions of computers, printers and televisions, and throw out their old ones.