Australian English Usage edit
Draft comparison of Australian, English and American vocabulary
Interesting English etymologies edit
Britain makes countries confusing edit
Approximations edit
Administrative regions edit
Australian manufacturing edit
- Cars
- Toyota makes some medium-large cars (such as Camry) in Altona, Victoria.
- Holden and Ford make large cars at various factories around Australia.
- Cleaning products
- The Geelong Brush Company makes brooms and other brushware-- (in Geelong?).
- Velvet soap is made by Unilever in ....
- Solvol soap is made by the WD-40 company in ....
- Clothing
- See above
- Food: Many staples are still manufactured in Australia. However many manufactured products such as sauces are imported.
- Hardware
- Some Dulux paint is made in Wellington.[1]
- Dulux plant at Rocklea, QLD
- Wattyl: Footscray, Vic, and Kilburne, SA. as of 2004.
- Whitegoods
- Electrolux makes make large refrigerators in Orange, New South Wales, under brands such as Westinghouse (licensed from Westinghouse Electric (1998)), Simpson and Kelvinator.[2]
- Pharmaceuticals
- CSL has a plant in Parkville (doubled in capacity for $60 million in 2002) which makes CSL Biotherapies products such as Gardasil and Afluria, and a CSL Bioplasma plant in Broadmeadows which makes Q-Vax (for Q-Fever) and blood products. [3]
- GlaxoSmithKline (Opium poppy)
- Pfizer Australia (Three Australian manufacturing plants export $AUD835 million anually [4]
- Sigma (makes Herron brand; Victoria [5])
- Sunscreen (Ego, Hamilton)
- The following also "manufacture":[6]
- Symbion (Nature's Own; Queensland)
- American Pharmaceutical Partners
- Apotex
- Apothecus Pharmaceutical Corp
- AstraZeneca
- Barakat Pharmaceutical Industries
- Biovale Pharmaceuticals
- Boehringer Ingelhiem
- Bradley Pharmaceuticals
- Cangene Pharmaceuticals
- Chattem
- Chemists' Own
- Douglas Laboratories
- ^ "Dulux investing $28m in Hutt factory".
- ^ "Manufacturing - Electrolux and Geoff Hort Engineering". Orange City Council. Retrieved 30 January, 2010.
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- ^ http://www.pfizer.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
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- ^ "yahoo search". Retrieved 7 March 2010.