“Our manufacturing infrastructure, and the skills in our industry, can also be used to create non-automotive products. This includes things like:
• Diver making radiant heat curtains for fire trucks and houses in bush fire zones and plasma
TV screen brackets that can take the weight of a human,
• Futuris making totem poles for public transport information and interiors for trams and
trains,
• Palm Plastics making non-breakable, and actually glow in the dark, wine glasses, and
• Hella making underground lighting for the mining industry.”
“Make it in Australia – Why car manufacturing matters”
Palm glow-in-the-dark drinkware mentioned in Mike Devereux’s (Chairman and Managing Director of GM Holden) address to the National Press Club on 7th December 2011