Chemicals, explosives and fertilisers business Incitec Pivot (ASX: IPL) has announced a review of its fertiliser businesses in Australia and the region. The company is the sole manufacturer of phosphate fertilisers in Australia and the only producer of nitrogen fertilisers on the east coast. The company has appointed UBS to provide advice for a strategic…
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By Stuart Corner or the first time since 2017 Gartner has updated its forecasts for the number of IoT devices in use in enterprises and the automotive industry (including connected cars) to 5.81 billion in total by the end of 2020, and issued some market-specific forecasts out to 2028. The latest forecast also leverages Gartner’s…
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By Andrew Spence Milk exports to Asia, yoghurts flavoured with indigenous fruits and booming local sales are helping a small South Australian dairy company thrive in a tough market. Fleurieu Milk Company achieved 35 per cent growth in sales for the financial year to July 2019, taking its production to about 140,000 litres a week to…
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ARENA has approved u to $9.41 million in funding to help construct a plant with capacity to produce 100 tonnes per annum of hydrogen from sewage.
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Cook Medical Australia is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
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The vocational education and training (VET) system is continuing its long term decline with further falls reported in student numbers by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). While student numbers fell in 2018 by a modest 1.5 per cent to 4.1 million people, this represented a fall in full-year training equivalents (FYTEs) of…
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Road system technologies manufacturer Traffic Technologies (ASX: TTI) is branching out into smart city sensors and data analysis as it embraces the Internet of Things (IoT), The Melbourne company will develop with Monash Council and Monash University, both in Melbourne’s south-east,a smart city control system of sensors, communications equipment and data analysis technologies. The development,…
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Two new South Australian technologies have combined to create what researchers claim to be the world’s most efficient air-cooled carbon dioxide refrigeration system.
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Brent Balinski spoke to Professor Sharath Sriram, RMIT’s Co-Leader, Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group, about commercialising a novel way to detect heart disease from saliva.
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The Australian Industry Group’s monthly Performance of Manufacturing Index showed the sector lift in August, with production and sales activity indices both returning to growth and the overall PMI up 1.8 points to 53.1
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