Macfarlane visits Trajan manufacturing facility

Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane has undertaken a special visit to the Trajan Scientific and Medical global headquarters in Melbourne, facilitated by Member for Deakin Michael Sukkar.

With over 300 staff worldwide across Australia, Europe, USA and Asia, Trajan serves customers in over 100 countries with highly specialised consumables and components used in scientific analysis and clinical applications. The company exports 98% of its products that are made in Australia, including the SGE Analytical Science brand, and is said to be a global market leader in niche areas such as autosampler syringes and gas chromatography inlet liners.

Trajan also engages with industry groups such as BioMelbourne Network and collaborates with a range of companies and academic institutions, including ASTech, the ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies - a $5.2m program part funded by the Australian Research Council, the University of Tasmania and Trajan.

The company is therefore a prime example of how industry and research can successfully forge strong connections. Macfarlane said the government hopes to foster such connections through its planned Industry Growth Centres.

“We do need to collaborate and we do need to focus on things that we can excel in, working with universities, working with companies internationally, to ensure the product we produce here isn’t just Australian,” Macfarlane said. “It’s got to be part of the international supply chain all over the world, and Trajan is showing the way.”