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From the CEO
from AMT AUG/SEP 2022
by AMTIL
Australian Manufacturing Week was a great success
Australian Manufacturing Week, held in Sydney at Darling Harbour from 7th – 10th June, was a great success with the feedback from 170 exhibitors and 6099 visitors alike telling us so. I thought I would take the opportunity to thank the many organisations and people that it takes to bring a show of this size together.
To our loyal exhibitors, all 170 of you, the show obviously would not exist if you did not put the hard work in to showcasing your products. But just as important, the efforts to make the show look great are much appreciated. We had 28 custom built stands and 29 company banners rigged from the ceiling which certainly added to the great look and feel of the event this year. To the International Convention Centre staff, we knew we had a very tight deadline to get the show in with us not able to have an extra day of move in due to another show before us. To Dewi and Stephanie, our Event Managers, thank you for working with us to deliver such a quality event. To our Operations team Jimmy, Hermann, Rick, Adrian and James, I love your problem-solving attitude. We’ve got an issue – let’s get on and fix it. To our Logistics and Dock team, Mike, Alby and your crew for the control in getting large freight in and out of the docks as efficiently as possible, even if it is 3:00am on the morning of the show and we are still bringing in a six-tonne machine just cleared through customs! To Helen, our BDM, thanks for everything in the lead up and sorry you were not able to see the show in person due to your overseas trip. To Marc, food and beverage consumption is so hard to predict. Do we cater for 500 or 2,000? Thanks to you and your staff getting it right most of the time. To our Security Manager, Mike, Jessie, Tee, Fiona and his team. You have good staff always willing to give a smile and be polite. Great work. To all the rest of the ICC staff – we look forward to working with you again in 2024. To all our friends at Harry the Hirer, you have a great team. I think we may have had a crew of close to 100 people laying carpet, putting up shell scheme, electrics, rigging, furniture, custom stands. It is a much bigger operation than many think. Many thanks to Igor, Corinne, Luke and your team looking after the build. To Travis, Steve, Derek and the team looking after electrics and rigging, another great job. To Dana, thanks for making our show look great with the custom builds. To the two Michaels, Stubbs and Barker, Tony, Heath and the team at GEL for organising the freight and logistics as good as ever. We certainly had some challenges this year having to freight forklifts, cranes and drivers up from Melbourne because
Stuart Ayres,(left) NSW Minister for Enterprise, Investment and Trade, with Shane Infanti, CEO of AMTIL.
we couldn’t get them in Sydney! Thank you for being available any time day or night. Sector 5 didn’t get much use this year but definitely will in Melbourne next May. F Wood & Son have been doing the plumbing and air on our show forever. Thanks to Paul, Bryan and your crew for another well-organised move in and move out. To LUP Events, this is the first time we have used you for our registration process and you didn’t disappoint. To Jenny, Gemma and your team, all our thanks for your efforts in the lead up, on site and post show in assisting our exhibitors with their lead generation and retrieval. To Gordon and Ignatius at Infrabuild for managing our scrap metal recycling. We look forward to working with you again. To Christian at Cryocut, thanks for the supply and removal of the cutting and grinding fluids. To Marc at AGE Electrical for testing and tagging everything on site. To Scott at Air Liquide and Sami at BOC for providing the gas services during the week. To the NSW Government, especially Lindsay, Colin and Julie. Your support for our show and the special functions on site involving your people was much appreciated. We look forward to doing it again with you in future years. Finally to my staff – Anne, Franco, Gabriele, George, Greg, Julie, Kim, Koulla, Nick, Paul, Sarah – a great effort and a great result. Well done team. Australian Manufacturing Week 2023 will be held from 9th – 12th May in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
