Brent Balinski spoke to Chris Larkin, CEO and co-founder at PolyLab, about the startup’s origins in humanitarian work and its plans to close the loop for rapid prototyping. 3D printing for prototyping can be expensive and wasteful, with a large amount of unused support material and the prototypes themselves binned after they’ve outlived their…
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Mining and rail products manufacturer Molycop has signed a power purchase agreement for 100,000 megawatt hours per year until 2030, which will see it source half its NSW electricity needs from regional renewable power generators in the state.
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Australasian dairy powerhouse a2 Milk (ASX: A2M) boosted revenue and profit in the 2019 year by more than 40 per cent as increased marketing expenditure took effect. The company spent 10 per cent of sales or NZ$135 million on marketing which helped China sales and pushed infant formula sales past $1 billion for the first…
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Railcar manufacturer Alstom will build a new railcar manufacturing facility at Bellevue in Perth following the award of a major new order from rail operator Metronet. Western Australian Premier Mark McGown made good his pledge to bring railcar manufacturing to WA with the naming of Alstom as preferred bidder to make 246 new C-series railcars…
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Satellite communications business Myriota and telecommunications company Optus Business have joined forces to bolster Internet of Things coverage across regional Australia.
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CSIRO has announced the launch of a new Mixed Reality Lab to apply “digital twin” techniques.
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Manufacturer/retailer Dresden is preparing to open its 14th outlet. Another approaching milestone – one tonne of plastic recycled – is further validation of its unconventional approach to eyewear. Brent Balinski speaks to Elmar Kert, the company’s Head of Global Operations.
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By Peter Roberts Silently, with only a warning beep-beep, the first ACE-EV electric cargo van to be assembled in Adelaide rolled out for its media debut early this morning. The venue – the Tonsley innovation centre housed in the former Miitsubishi Motors main assembly building – was ripe with irony, a massive industrial structure now…
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Cardiovascular disease monitoring technology company USCOM has posted a smaller loss for the 2019 financial year following the reorganisation of manufacturing. The company, founded in 2000 on cardiovascular research by at the University of Queensland, reported revenues of $3.64 million and total costs of $4.3 million. UNSCOM makes a range of non-invasive cardiovascular and pulmonary…
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Carbon nanotube concrete developer Eden Innovation has made its first sale into the bridge repair market in the United States. The company has added to its road repair projects that first took it into the US market with trials to be conducted using EdenCrete to repair bridges identified in the state of Georgia. Edencrete will…
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