Grant supports tyre reprocessing on Tasmania
Tasmania’s shredded waste tyres no longer have to be shipped interstate and can now be processed on the island and turned into fuel following a major grant.
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Australian Manufacturing Forum passes 15,000 members
@AuManufacturing’s social media discussion and networking group, the Australian Manufacturing Forum on Linkedin, has passed an important membership milestone. The Forum, Australia’s largest professional social media group of Australian manufacturers, last night saw the admission of new members, bringing membership to 15,000. New members in past days range from production team members to technical staff…
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$58.3 million awarded to ARC Laureate Fellows
Funding totalling $58.3 million has been announced through the most recent round of the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme, supporting projects including quantum computing devices, more durable perovskite-based solar photovoltaic cells, and terahertz biosensing. Funding for 17 researchers was announced on Tuesday through the scheme, which is part of ARC’s Discovery Program and supports researchers “to…
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Partnership launched to make lower-carbon concrete
Suvo and PERMAcast have entered a joint venture to develop low-carbon geopolymer concrete products.
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Design partners selected for nuclear submarine shipyard
The federal government has announced Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and an AECOM and Aurecon Joint Venture as the concept design partners for South Australia’s new nuclear-powered submarine construction yard (NPSCY). KBR has extensive experience in supporting design and project management for defence infrastructure facilities and will design the area of the NPSCY that will…
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First Aussie made, fully certified flushable wet wipes to hit the shelves
A South Australian manufacturer has set a new benchmark, making the first Australian-made and fully certified flushable wet wipes.
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WA sets sights on expanding advanced manufacturing capabilities
The Western Australian Government has launched a prospectus to help boost local manufacturing, outlining the state’s vision for the sector.
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Calling out attacks on a Future Made in Australia, by Julie Harrison
Economists should stop insisting that local manufacturers compete in a ‘free market’ because world markets are far from free, argues Julie Harrison, Chief Executive Officer of Harrison Manufacturing. There’s a line in the movie Apocalypse Now in which the narrator ponders that, ‘charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding…
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New National Robotics Strategy to drive industry adoption
The federal government has released Australia’s first National Robotics strategy boosting robotics and automation technologies to build a Future Made in Australia. The Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic made the announcement at an AI summit in Sydney. Robotics and automation technologies have enormous potential to transform advanced manufacturing, support a transition to net…
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Big wine merger withers on the vine
A shuffle of ownership of wine businesses which could have seen one of Australia’s three biggest wine producers return to Australian control has withered on the vine. Australian Vintage which manufactures Nepenthe and Barossa Valley Wine Company products had been in discussions about a possible merger with private equity owned Accolade Wines, the maker of…
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