CLEANER SMARTER DIVERSE
Our Purpose and plans
Purpose
To promote a globally competitive business environment for member organisations which enables ongoing sustainable operations, in a safe and environmentally responsible manner and leverages opportunities to promote growth and attract investment for the minerals, processing, manufacturing and energy consumer sectors.
A story of reinvention
For years, the story of our industries was told with hard hats and hi-vis. But there’s more to us than this.
For generations our mills, our factories, our workshops and our processors thrived. What we made here was proudly sent to the mainland and around the world. But prices declined, our competitors reduced costs, increased the scale of production, our isolation became a barrier and our industry suffered.
But we didn’t let our industries wither and die.
Instead, we invented and reinvented. We tapped into a spirit that embraces where we live. That uses our remote and rugged landscape and our isolation as an asset. We embraced a way of ‘thinking and doing’ that isn’t based on volume – It’s based on quality and inventiveness.
Now… something made in Tasmania is lighter, stronger, safer, smarter, more durable, more beautiful, more delicious. And among the most mineral-rich places on the planet, we’ve become a workshop for ingenuity, efficiently processing minerals critical for the future, and creating solutions to help the world reduce its carbon footprint.
Measuring Success
Our actions will:
- Improve safety, health and wellbeing outcomes for members, their employees, contractors and suppliers and the communities in which we operate.
- Continually reduce adverse impacts from our processes, products, and historical legacies on the environment.
- Increase Tasmania’s economic potential by:
✔ A more competitive economic and regulatory regime which encourages business to invest, compete, collaborate, and innovate
✔ Productive processes to access land and resources for exploration and mining to ensure long-term growth to our economy that is based on rigorous compliance and sustainable business practice
✔ Promote actions which ensure Tasmania can offer international competitively priced energy and freight access to our members
✔ Promote actions which bolster the capability of Tasmanian Advanced Manufacturers
✔ Supporting new entrants to build their businesses in Tasmania. - Further build a positive reputation through our community and their awareness of the benefits our member sectors play in the economy and in building Tasmania’s future.
- Increasing the diversity and numbers of people pursuing career opportunities in our member sectors.
- Provide a unified voice for members and other stakeholders, collaborative platforms and networks fostered by TMEC as a means of sharing information to support continuous improvement in our member sectors.
2026-27 Priorities
- Challenge and promote members to adopt best practices in Safety, Health, Wellbeing and Environment matters – regulatory reviews, statutory health monitoring, mental health wellbeing and land rehabilitation.
- Support members to progress their Sustainable Development Goals where scale can be leveraged – decarbonisation pathways, circular economy, and waste reduction.
- Enable members to be more inclusive employers with greater diversity in their workplace – continue implementation of action plan, networking events and pilot deployment.
- Promote efficient regulatory and regulated processes – red tape reduction, energy pricing, port services, development application and assessment systems to improve Tasmania’s ability to attract investment capital to this sector.
- Ensure TMEC has a voice in major projects and changes where there is potential to alter market forces – policy direction in Tasmania’s renewable energy industry sector, critical minerals, gas, advanced manufacturing – defence, sovereign capability.
- Develop and implement Workforce Development Plans reflective of current and future skill needs in the sector – implement actions in Skills Compacts, contribute to national skills forums.
- Highlight and promote this sector‘s positive contribution to the state and regional communities – using conventional and digital media together with school and community programs.
- Continuously improve the value proposition which retains and attracts members due to value, scale, networking and our statewide presence – broaden the range of member benefits including welding services and related activities, training, and other aspects where collaboration and scale can be leveraged.
- Support members with identifying and adopting productivity improvement systems- Industry 4.0 strategy and productivity program.
Our Values
- Work safely
- Lead and act with fairness, respect, integrity and trust
- Promote an inclusive culture
- Listen to stakeholder expectations and concerns
- Actively engage with our communities
- Foster innovation, continuous improvement and collaboration
- Work together openly and transparently
- Hold each other accountable for our commitments and actions
