Manufacturing excellence the heart of our newest city, Bradfield City Centre

By
BEN KITCHER
,
Executive Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility

New cities rarely happen. In Australia, the last major city to be built was Canberra - 100 years ago. A new city built around advanced manufacturing technology is rarer still - a potential global first, in fact.  
With this extraordinary foundation, we have the chance to make Bradfield City Centre, and Western Sydney more broadly, the place – globally – for manufacturing excellence. 

The Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) will be the first organisation to open its doors in the new city, setting the tone for what is to come. 

The AMRF will activate the manufacturing ecosystem in Bradfield City Centre and across the wider Western Sydney region, targeting focus industries such as advanced manufacturing, space, defence, medtech, logistics, research and development, new energy, and the circular economy. 

Building on the broad industrial shoulders of the Western Sydney manufacturing industry, the NSW government has invested more than $300 million in the AMRF, a significant investment that will provide the scale needed to achieve outcomes. 

And we have launched the Invitations for First Projects, with nearly thirty businesses expressing interest in collaborating with the AMRF.

Respondents have approached the AMRF with a huge range of concepts for projects, from modelling new factories to optimising  investments through to the development of new and improved processes for additive, composite, and machined parts.

Areas of applications include space, medical devices, and sports goods.