Australian startup aims to assemble EVs in Q4 2019
To the optimists, there are reasons why electric vehicle manufacture in Australia is a real possibility. Greg McGarvie, the co-founder of ACE-EV Group and GetGreen, is one of them.
Energy metals boom challenges Australia to add value
Today’s inforgarphic, from Visual Capitalist, throws down the challenge to Australia for the 21st Century. Will we ride this new bull wave for metals needed in the new economy simply by digging the stuff up and shipping it out? Or will we use our natural advantages, skills and wealth as a nation to go up…
Australia – the opportunity to add value
Member viewpoint by Linsey Siede Australia has long been described as the “Lucky Country” and a “Land of Opportunity”, but it is also a country of dichotomy and of missed opportunities. As an Engineer I like to work with facts, so here are a few which lead to Australia’s opportunities to be innovative, add value,…
2019 to be a breakout year for Australia’s space industry: an interview with Fleet Space Technologies’ founder
Last week a home for Australia’s new Space Agency was announced, with the headquarters to open mid-next year at the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site. Brent Balinski spoke to Fleet Space Technologies founder and CEO Flavia Tata Nardini about why she believes SA is the place for space business, what it offers for manufacturers, and what to expect in 2019.
Site visit: the Australian watchmaker creating a movement
The refusal of car makers to share their technical information and its effect on independent repairers has been in the spotlight lately. There are some similarities to a saga from earlier in the decade, and one which has led to the existence of a company calling itself Australia’s first and only watch manufacturer.
Yes, you can make bottle caps more cheaply in Australia than in China
This is how you reshore manufacturing of even the most simple low cost products to Australia.
Pioneering Australian agricultural robot company begins production
With a population of 209 at the last census and a nine-hour drive to the state’s capital city, Gindie might seem an unlikely destination for talented young software or mechatronics engineers chasing a career with a promising robotics manufacturer. But Queensland’s Central Highlands has a high-tech centre. And it’s hiring.
Breakthrough cancer treatment being made in Victoria
Victoria has opened Australia’s first facility accredited to manufacture a targeted cancer treatment that significantly improves patient survival rates and quality of life. Industry and Advanced Manufacturing Minister Colin Brooks opened IDT Australia’s Ehrlich Bioconjugation Centre in Boronia on Monday. The centre is dedicated to producing Antibody Drug Conjugates for research and development, clinical and…
Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed
IDT Australia secures Sanofi contract Pharmaceutical development company IDT Australia has secured a follow on contract with pharma giant Sanofi Australia for preclinical formulation, development and manufacture of Sanofi’s messenger RNA (mRNA). The contract, worth up to $4 million, continues the company’s advancement of mRNA-based vaccine formulation, development and manufacture at IDT’s aseptic sterile injectables…
Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed
Fleet on hiring spree Small satellite business Fleet Space Technologies is hiring for 11 positions, the company’s co-founder and CEO announced on Monday. In a statement on Linkedin, Flavia Tata Nardini posted about the positions vacant, listing Key Account Executive – Salt Lakes (US)m Senior Sales Executive – Macquarie Arc (AUS), Sales Engineer (APAC), Data…