KATHY Bartley is the woman of steel. And her superpower is transforming the Gold Coast from a tourism-reliant town to a city that s putting manufacturing on the map. Even better, she s helping change the industry itself into a more female-friendly workplace ⦠a process that surely should now be dubbed wo-manufacturing. But as the general manager of Neumann Steel, the oldest family-run reinforcing steel business in the country and based in Currumbin, Kathy is engaged in some serious business. And never more so than in that historic year of 2020. Kathy Bartley is the general manager of Neumann Steel As exports from China ground to a halt at the height of the pandemic, Neumann Steel stepped in to provide a locally based solution for other Australian companies struggling to source manufacturing parts.