Federal assistance has been awarded to 34 timber manufacturers under the Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation grants program, supporting projects including for activated carbon production, packaging, and construction materials. Grants are between $1 million to $5 million, distributed from 2022-23 to 2025-26, and support up to 40 per cent of total project costs. A…
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The escalating abuse of the process for allocating grants for scientific research in recent years has had its denouement with the release of an independent review by eminent scientists which found that the Australian Research Council, and not the minister, should decide who receives federal science grants. Education Minister Jason Clare yesterday released the review,…
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Hearing implant manufacturer Cochlear has again rebuffed competition concerns from authorities over its planned takeover of competitor Oticon Medical for $170 million, which followed a decision by parent company Demant to exit the hearing implants business. Cochlear said it disagreed with the conclusions of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which found provisionally that…
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The owner and operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory is working towards a multi-launch contract with American space transportation and rocket manufacturing company Phantom Space Corporation. Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), which signed a MOU with Phantom Space in 2022, also envisages an expanded scope and detail of future cooperation to…
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Nanosatellite company Fleet Space Technologies has been awarded a$6.4 million contract with Australia’s new Defence Space Command agency to develop and demonstrate a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications system “focused on tactical communications and data transmission where connectivity is limited.” The contract is the first in defence for Fleet, which manufactures satellites for industrial…
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Late last year, Vector Lifting and Bonfiglioli collaborated on a 15-month-long installation for the Perth Transport Authority (PTA), successfully meeting the PTA’s deadlines and delivering a high-performance lifting solution.
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Researchers at Melbourne’s RMIT University have released study findings that appear to open the way to solve one of the biggest issues for diabetics – the need to take insulin via injection. The researchers, led by students Jamie Strachan and Brendan Dyett have demonstrated a promising new oral delivery mode for insulin using lipid or…
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Water treatment company SciDev has announced a new contract worth $3.15 million to design, build and integrate a plant into a Cleanaway Waste Management facility in Victoria. The project will treat water for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl (PFAS) contaminants at an existing liquid waste facility, said SciDev in an ASX statement on Thursday. PFAS are a…
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A thin, flexible gold sensor engineered at The University of Queensland (UQ) has the potential to unlock the next generation of implantable medical devices. Researchers at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) have produced a small film-like sensor that is both flexible and sensitive enough to enable more streamlined electronic medical implants. The…
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By Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology Australia’s first National Electric Vehicle Strategy, released on Wednesday, details the government’s long-awaited plans to accelerate the adoption of these vehicles. Consultations on the strategy began last September. The climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, then promised the strategy would make Australia a globally competitive market for…
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