Industry News

  Dear AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On behalf of all the Directors, we would like to extend our warmest wishes for a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year to you and your families. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to all members who attended the Annual General Meeting (AGM) […]

  To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On behalf of all the Directors of the AISF the AISF Board members welcome to Spring, as we head into the sprint for year end. The GAA (Galvanizers Association Australia) are hosting their 60th Annual GAA Conference in Hobart, Tasmania from 16 – 18 October, Hobart and

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders,   On behalf of all the Directors of the AISF and as we hurtle into the middle of the year, the AISF Board members are excited to see several of our key projects progressing well. DR AS 3715:2022, Metal Finishing – Thermoset powder coatings for architectural applications of

  To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On behalf of all the Directors of the AISF, we hope you and your families had a great break over the Christmas and New Year. In 2024 we have delivered the EPA IO4 VIC Licence Member Forum on 28 February updating our members on the findings working

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On behalf of all the Directors of the AISF, we wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The year of 2023 has been one of rebuilding and refining what we do and how we do it. It has been fantastic to

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, Spring is in the air and along with all of the new beginnings that spring brings, the AISF are also setting into motion some positive changes to come. We are pleased to announce that we have engaged the services of Philip Turner (COH), Certified Occupational Hygienist who is

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, Welcome to the New Financial Year. We are actively progressing the review and update of the audit and accreditation programmes for powder coating and electroplating standards with Standards Australia. Our online training modules are in full swing and last week we completed a 2 hour online Working with

To All AISF Members and Stakeholders, Whenever we survey or ask our members “what are the main priorities the AISF should be focusingon”, inevitably the number one answer is training. In recent years the AISF has directed much of itsresources to updating our existing training courses to ensure that they remain relevant to currenttechnologies, industry

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, We hope everyone had some time off to enjoy the festive season and are ready to take on whatever wins& challenges 2023 may send our way! This year we are excited that face to face training with the AISF will continue to gather momentum and arecurrently working on

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On behalf of all the Directors of the AISF, we wish you andyour families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.The year of 2022 has been one of rebuilding and refiningwhat we do and how we do it. It has been fantastic to be ableto deliver

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, As we make slow steps forward with our various quality and standards projects it is great to see the membership growing and the input into this newsletter coming from far and wide in our industry. This issue we have lots of informative articles, our new, regular Meet the

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, Welcome to the New Financial Year! Along with actively progressing the review and update of the powder coating and electroplating standards with Standards Australia, the AISF has appointed a new Secretariat officer. With Natalie Mills departure into the NSW snowfields, we welcome Michelle Bracken to the team as

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, It looks like 2022 is not shaping up to the COVID-free start we were all hoping for. With the new “son of COVID” variant now starting to veer its ugly head it appears we are continuing on with this ground hog day, and some times feeling apocalyptic existence.

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, We know it has been a difficult COVID year for all, and with rules and regulations constantly changing, it has been a major distraction for businesses. The AISF has done its best to get on with business, and despite the difficulties a lot has been accomplished. With Christmas

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, We know it has been a difficult COVID year for all, and with rules and regulations constantly changing, it has been a major distraction for businesses. The AISF has done its best to get on with business, and despite the difficulties a lot has been accomplished. With the

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On 12 and 13th May the AISF powder coating training returned to Sydney for the first time in over a decade. This is another step in the recovery of the AISF cementing its position as the national trainer for Powder Coating in Australia. The course covered the full

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, Recently I had the pleasure of visiting the Oxytech site in Smithfield, Sydney as we were looking at their facilities for our NSW Powder Coating training. While there Scott Barter and Chris Sweetnam decided to put me through the powder coating training and “have a go” at coating

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, A new year often brings new challenges, however if you were to ask anyone on the street,I do not think they would say they are sad to see the end of 2020. However in thesurface finishing industry, all of the applicators and suppliers I have had the pleasure

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, On behalf of all the Directors of the AISF, we wish you and your families a very MerryChristmas and a Happy New Year. We know it has been a difficult year for all, and we look forward to a safe and healthier 2021. We trust you stay safe

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, This month, we thought we would highlight the importance of innovation within out industry, including how and why we should be looking at ways we can implement new technological advancements to improving our businesses practices. The benefits to reviewing operations include, better productivity, reduced wastage, premier products, staff

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, With the current global climate, there has been many issues surrounding lead time and ability to supply from overseas. COVID19 has really shown the need for a strong Australian manufacturing sector and a reduced dependence on direct imports. The AISF is proud to represent many outstanding locally owned

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, The first of July saw both the start of a new fiscal year and a new membership term with the Australasian Institute of Surface Finishing (AISF). Membership invoices have already been sent out to our existing members, please contact us if you haven’t received yours. If you are

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, Last month, in our Industry Insights newsletter we notified that Safe Work Australia are currently reviewing the Workplace exposure standards for airborne contaminants (based on the WES list). So far for our industry, we have seen the recommendation of the maximum exposure limits for Hexavalent Chrome massively reduce.

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The start of 2020 has seen us living through a 1 in a 100 year event. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down. Non-essential businesses have been put into lock-down and those essential businesses who didn’t have the capabilities to adapt and “work from home” were

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, Now that 2020 is well under way, albeit a very rocky start, first the Bush fires, now the Coronavirus (COVID-19) moving AustraIia and the world into unknown territory. Our Secretariat services have taken precautions to ensure they remain available for our members. We have made necessary arrangements for

To All AISF Members and Industry Stakeholders, I would firstly like to introduce myself having been elected to the position of National President of our Institute in December 2019. While it is a position, I also occupied some 20 years ago, and probably time to move on as opposed to move in I am pleased

2019 has been a crucial year of change for the AISF where we have taken some significant and important decisions to reset and begin the long journey of re-stablishing the Institute as the preeminent industry body for the Powder Coating, Anodising and Electroplating industries. After considerable consultation with applicators, finishers and suppliers it was clear

The AISF team takes this opportunity to officially thank all of our Members who were involved with our recent Annual General Meeting (AGM). During our AGM, our members unanimously voted in favour of accepting a new modern Constitution and we are looking forward to refining and growing the Australasian Institute of Surface Finishing offerings to

Spring is in the air and along with all of the new beginnings that spring brings, the AISF are also setting into motion some positive changes to come. During the months of August and September, we announced the notice of our Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held at the offices of our Secretariat

Last month in our newsletter we spoke about the 50th anniversary of our Institute. This month we would like to focus on the future, our next 50 years. On behalf of our current Directors, Chris Sweetnam, Neil Mills and myself we would like to announce we are calling our next Annual General Meeting (AGM). This

The AISF now in its 50th year, is busily preparing itself for major reforms to be able to better represent and quickly adapt to the current and future needs of our members. Of particular importance is the proposed new AISF Constitution that will replace and modernise our legal and organisational platforms. Members will soon decide

This year marks the golden jubilee for the Australasian Institute of Surface Finishing. To mark this event, we though it would be a great time to take a moment to reflect on our past, and look for guidance to move into our future.  

Last month saw the Powder Coating industry in shock as the news of the potential sale of the Dulux Group to Nippon Paints was announced. We were all wondering what would that mean to our industry. The AISF approached Dulux directly to ascertain what this means to us. We were provided with a copy of

Recently we made some important and vital changes to how the AISF is managed and structured. In March 2019 we announced via a Media Release that the AWA-AGGA are now providing Secretariate Services to the AISF.