By Peter Roberts The latest report from the same mob whose policies brought you today’s fragile and narrowly based economy – the Productivity Commission – gives us more of the same faith in markets as suitable drivers of an economy that has so patently hobbled productivity growth. The PC, and its ally the Treasury have…
Syringe-free vaccination technology company Vaxxas is to receive an $8.2 million grant to support the scale up of manufacturing at its Australian manufacturing facility. The Cambridge Massachusetts and Australian company was awarded the second round grant as part of the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI) to support manufacture of its skin patch which delivers…
Medical device technology company Seer Medical has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for use of its ambulatory epilepsy monitoring system ‘Seer Home’ in the US. The company’s at-home monitoring system and wearable medical devices have already been used by 11,000 Australians, with a larger US market now opening up – around 3.4…
Changes to electric vehicle policies foreshadowed by the federal government have encouraged electric truck manufacturer SEA Electric to double the size of its local assembly facility for zero-emission trucks in Dandenong, Melbourne. The company, which team its EV drive trains to OEM supplied truck chassis here and in the United States, will expand its present…
The US Department of Homeland Security has extended its contract with carbon fibre nanotube X-Ray machine manufacturer Micro-X to continue the development of a Miniaturised CT Baggage Scanner. DHS also exercised an option to continue the Passenger Self-Screening Checkpoint design (pictured), with the two contracts are now valued at US$4.5 million to the Adelaide company.…
Australian hydrogen electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer H2X Global has released details and photographs of its long awaited Warrego hydrogen powered utility vehicle (pictured). The Australian company is moving to achieve European compliance for the vehicle, to be followed by Australian compliance. Based on the Ford Ranger utility, the utility is being converted to include the…
By Peter Roberts The federal government has had two attempts to mimic the success of Britain’s Catapult centres and Germany’s Fraunhofer technology and innovation centres, places where industrial technologies are developed, scaled up and realised in partnership with industry, publicly funded researchers and government. Neither of the two attempts, the first by a Labor government…
Three of Korea’s largest conglomerate groups have joined together to establish a green hydrogen production supply chain to export more than one million tonnes of green ammonia per annum from Australia to Korea by 2032. Korea Zinc, Hanwha Impact and SK Gas, and Australian Korea Zinc subsidiary Ark Energy have formed the Hanguk-Hoju (Korea-Australia) Hydrogen…
Fast electric vehicle charger manufacturer Tritium has announced $200 million in sales in a single year marked by heavy investment, including in a new factory in Lebanon, Tennessee (pictured) which is now in operation. The Brisbane company revealed orders of $203 million and a production backlog of $149 million as part of its full year…
New shallow water vessels for NSW Police The NSW police force (NSWPF) has called for expressions of interest for the design and construction of class 8 hulled vessels which can be used in waters such as shallow waters or inland waterways. The vessels will be used for general marine policing in times of flood assistance,…