Australian Munitions in the Press
US approves Australian TNT for military use
The US Department of Defense has certified Australian-made TNT to military specifications, paving the way for Australian TNT to be exported to the US from the Commonwealth-owned and Thales-operated plant in Mulwala, NSW. Read more
Australian Supply Chain Spending Hits Record High Despite COVID-19 Disruption
Accenture analysis finds Thales Australia’s payments to Australian suppliers hit a record high in 2020. In 2020 Thales spent $657m with 1841 Australian suppliers, and $1.9bn over the three years 2018-20. Thales spending supported 2,051 direct jobs along the Australian…
Australia’s Sovereign Guided Weapons Heritage
Corry Roberts, Vice President Land, Thales Australia & New Zealand There has been much made of the Prime Minister’s announcement in late March of the creation of an Australian Sovereign Guided Weapons Manufacturing Enterprise. And rightly so. This is a…
Total Graphic Solutions: High Tech Printing for High Tech Explosives
Total Graphic Solutions (TGS) is an Australian owned specialist printing business who pride themselves on consistently pushing the boundaries on what can be achieved within the printing industry, particularly with advancing and sustainable technologies. Based in Melbourne, Victoria, TGS has…
Historic year of exports for Australian Munitions
In 2020, Thales’s Australian Munitions business recorded its largest year of munitions export orders to date, signing more than $30 million in munitions orders to the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Asia and Europe. This success, achieved in a year…
Australian SME DEMEX wins World Demolition Award honour
Congratulations to our SME construction contractor DEMEX who recently won “Best New Entrant” at the World Demolition Awards. DEMEX was recently engaged by Thales’ Australian Munitions Business to demolish 43 redundant buildings at the Commonwealth owned Mulwala facility for major…
Strategic defence partnership to secure hundreds of Australian jobs
Thales and the Australian Government have signed a decade long contract worth more than AUD 1 billion (of which around AUD 300 million will be booked in 2020) that guarantees the Australian manufacture and supply of strategic munitions to the…
Australian Munitions Awarded the 2019 Manufacturer of the Year
Australian Munitions has been awarded “Manufacturer of the Year” at the 2019 Defence Connect Australian Defence Industry Awards. The event recognises leading professionals and businesses operating in Australia who support the defence supply chain. The award recognises the defence manufacturer…