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BTW I'm working in the Steel manufacturing Industry and we are constantly struggling to stay afloat economically due to customers constantly wanting to import cheaper steel. Not all government fault at times. |
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i worked on the darling harbor (sydney) expansion project some years back, as boilermaker/welder. there was hundreds of tons of fabricated steel imported from china, it was all chinese. imo the govco sets a very poor example. whats wrong using local industry?
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I'm going to park these two clips here..
And yes Franco there is no plans to stop building the K200's in Australia.
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Do you remember when the East link freeway was built and the steel gantry's for signs were reported to be cracking and breaking from Chinese imports. |
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Aussie companies who make components for KTA.
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thats cause chinese can,t weld for ****. ive heard many times in the structural steel business that imported chinese structural steel has faulty welds, these welds are cut out in Australia , and then rewelded to pass the welding specification.
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Is the problem that Chinese welders can’t weld or is it that Chinese steel is of inferior quality and breaks beside the weld.Some manufacturers here will not use Chinese steel,instead paying a higher price for Australian made.
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well said. i forwarded this to your boss. He said he will have your new contract ready in the morning
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i can,t comment on the steel, there welding is poor. if there is a break next to the weld, that is a weld fault. its called cracking in the "heat affected zone" or a fatigue crack which is a design fault.
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I hate to get all academic on the forum, but the first roll back of tariffs occurred in the early 70's when Whitlam ended preferential commonwealth tariffs (remember pommy cars?) and eased import tariffs (remember the flood of jap cars?). This was to lower the cost of living for the average person.
Destroying local manufacture probably wasnt envisaged by the proponents of the policy. It occurred across all sectors from clothes, footwear, light industry. Ultimately we decided what we spend our money on. The majority choose foreign imports. |
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If we could harness the massive power of belief that we can't do it, I am sure we are capable of anything.
Tony Robbins type stuff - in reverse.
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Don't forget Volvo in Queensland, although I am not sure they do or use much Aussie 'manufacturing', but the trucks are assembled there
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they have used the same leather interior supplier since they started making trucks here in the 1970's
They only use women to install the interiors - why? because of their eye for detail I used to take logistics cadets for tours at their plant in Bayswater
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Going to be fun in the future when Australia will have to battle for water rights and farming land but hey at least we can have cheap motoring and housing investments now.
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Just wondering how Oliver boots (now off my list of workwear) are going after manufacturing boots here for 132 years, closing up manufacturing in Ballarat at the end of 2019 and going offshore just before the Pandemic.
I reckon that was a good move.
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My Money's on IVECO being the First to hoist the White Flag & cease local Production.. |
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They do sell alot of motorhome cab/chassis but don't see much bigger stuff besides G.T ACCOs.
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Iveco could probably build a F150 sized competitor if they tried.
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Would be a good angle to offer low cost exporting as a sweetener?
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IVECO has massively downscaled it's capabilities, shell of its former self.
They don't even have value adding type work, they rely on third parties they contract to for their modified platforms, think garbage trucks etc. Isuzu Australia has the capability of second stage manufacturing in house to an OE standard. |
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