Monthly Archive: November 2023

We are pleased to announce our 2023-2024 Board members and office bearers were elected at the GMC AGM this week. Thys Heyns was elected as Chair, with Rob Backwell elected as Deputy Chair. Thys has 35 years’ experience in the...

One of Australia’s leading plantation and carbon management and woodfibre export companies, Midway Limited, recently announced it has entered a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CHS Broadbent. Under the agreement, Midway will sell a section of its North Shore...

On 27 November 2023, the Hon Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science, launched the Industry Growth Program. The Industry Growth Program is now open, with startups and innovative small and medium businesses able to apply for expert advice...

We were proud to take great strides as your organisation this year – a neat reflection of what the sector itself is doing – and these achievements would not be possible without your long-standing support and the enthusiastic newcomers joining...

Family-owned Geelong Bates Pipes and Products is approaching a three-decade milestone of providing a one-stop shop service to large infrastructure clients, including Vic Roads and John Holland. Corio-based GMC-member Bates specialises in reinforced concrete pipes, box culverts and crown units....

The Geelong Manufacturing Council (GMC) has called on the Federal Government to reject controversial elements of the proposed Closing Loopholes legislation because of its severe impacts on manufacturing competitiveness in Australia. “We often hear politicians say that ‘manufacturing matters’ or...

Rising stars of Geelong proved manufacturing’s ingenious ability to adapt during a Geelong Manufacturing Council and Advanced Fibre Cluster event last week, part of the City’s Geelong Design Week. The local audience heard about hydrogen drone production at Quickstep Group in Geelong, and about...

Viva Energy’s CEO, Scott Wyatt, featured this week in the national media highlighting how the company is closing the gender pay gap. The company is also deliberately working towards growing the number of women they employ, including as jet refuellers...