Australian manufacturing

Behind the scenes at Sussex Taps

6 Jun, 2018

Sussex Taps was founded in the 1990s by migrated Dutchman Nicolaas Johannes van Putten, a toolmaker by trade who had a jewellery business specialising in earrings before he branched out into tapware. Today, his daughter Vanessa Katsanevakis continues his legacy from their Melbourne factory and foundry. During the tour of the Sussex…

XLam opens world-leading CLT facility in Australia

4 May, 2018

The most technologically advanced Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) plant in the world is now up and running in Australia, with production underway at XLam’s new Wodonga facility. CLT is part of a new wave of prebuild construction technologies and is produced from timber, a renewable and sustainable material. CLT is…