Meeting the Australian Manufacturing Challenge

POLIVAC continues to manufacture the bulk of its range in Australia, at the Kensington, Melbourne plant it has occupied since 1949. Local manufacturing means parts are held domestically and serviced by a local distributor, which is the practical reason a machine bought a decade ago can still be repaired rather than replaced.

For Polivac's management team there is an ongoing challenge to manufacture the bulk of its range in Australia. Inventor of the world's first suction polisher in 1949, the company's pioneering spirit remains.

“There is always the attraction to cut costs and manufacture offshore but we want to stay here,” said managing director and majority shareholder Tony Antonious.