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The 11 companies identified who could increase their participation are Ferra Engineering,  Levett Engineering, Lovitt Technologies, Varley, Marand, Quickstep, RUAG, Nupress, AW Bell, BAE Systems Australia and Cablex. Many are already key suppliers to the Lockheed Martin manufactured aircraft.

Quickstep were honoured to be selected as Aerospace Business of the Year 2019 at the Defence Connect Australian Defence Industry Awards held at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.  

I am a Brit, married to an Australian. I moved to Australia nearly five years ago, having lived and worked in the UK, the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. At the time, I was running part of a large American-owned international business, but for the last two-and-a-half years I have been the chief executive of an Australian listed SME.

In 2017 the current managing director, Mark Burgess, was appointed and 3 long-standing directors were replaced. Contracts have been won, costs have been cut, operating cash-flow has improved and revenues have grown.

Quickstep delivers $2.7m profit on 24% sales growth

Quickstep is proud to have been asked to participant at the I4AMF being held in Melbourne today, 7th August. The forum is being led by the AiGroup to facilitate dialogue and collaboration on digitalisation and Industry 4.0 implementation.

A new report has just been released by PwC on “Aerospace manufacturing attractiveness rankings.” Ranking categories include cost, economy, geopolitical risk, infrastructure, labor, industry, and tax policy.

Professor Bronwyn Fox at Swinburne will be the research director of a project focused on automated carbon fibre parts production using Industry 4.0 technologies and processes.

Quickstep was founded in Perth in 2001 by the Graham family. Initially it was a technology-based business that developed the ‘Quickstep’ manufacturing process of carbon fibre composite parts.