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Australian manufacturing. Innovative. Quality. Diverse. Sustainable.

Manufacturing Australia (MA) is a
CEO-led coalition of Australia's largest manufacturers. MA works with governments to help Australia’s manufacturing sector realise its potential.

Having overcome a myriad of external economic challenges in recent years, MA members continue to operate at scale because they are efficient, well-managed and innovative businesses that have restructured and retooled to improve productivity and remain competitive.

Manufacturing is the value-adding life-blood of a balanced Australian economy. Through downstream wealth creation, research and development, import replacement and maximising the value of our natural resources, manufacturing delivers a substantial economic, social and cultural return to the nation.

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of private R&D spend

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is contributed annually to GDP

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of Australia’s exports come from manufacturing

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private sector research staff are employed

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Australians are directly employed

OUR PRIORITIES

Securing future manufacturing jobs.

MA works to secure the next generation of manufacturing employment and investment in
Australia, by focusing on four priority areas for cooperation between industry
and government.

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Boosting safe and
sustainable Australian manufacturing.

Encouraging better regulations that help keep Australian manufacturing safe, sustainable productive and high quality.

Innovation-driven workplace productivity.

Increasing productivity through innovation, research and development, modern and flexible workplaces.sustainable productive and high quality.

Free trade equals fair trade.

Ensuring free trade is also fair trade is crucial for the economy. It promotes equitable opportunities for all our members.

Restoring Australia's competitiveness.

Regaining Australia’s competitive advantage of reliable, affordable and sustainable energy resources, and ensuring Australia meets its international emissions obligations while remaining globally competitive in trade exposed industries.

OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Leadership for modern Australian manufacturing.

James Fazzino

Chair

Ben Eade

Chief Executive Officer

Our Members

Meet our member company CEOs

James Fazzino

Chair

James Fazzino was a founding member CEO of Manufacturing Australia, well known for his passionate belief that Australian manufacturing can compete on the world stage.

During his 14 year tenure at Incitec Pivot Limited, first as CFO and then as CEO, Incitec Pivot increased in size 6-fold, with Mr Fazzino overseeing construction of two new manufacturing plants, successfully integrating the $3 billion Dyno-Nobel acquisition and restructuring the group to become a global industrial chemical company with operations around the world.

“Manufacturing has a strong future in this country. Its definitely not a sunset industry. But just as businesses must adapt in a globally competitive manufacturing sector, so too should policymakers, Mr Fazzino said.”

Ben Eade

Chief Executive Officer

Ben has worked with Manufacturing Australia since its inception in 2011, and as Executive Director since 2013, helping the organisation to become a champion for Australia’s large enterprise manufacturing sector.

Prior to joining Manufacturing Australia, Ben’s career in corporate affairs spanned public and private sectors in Australia and the USA, where he worked in senior in house and consulting roles with government departments as well as large corporations, with focus on the manufacturing, energy and higher education sectors.