Biotechnology and blood plasma business CSL (ASX: CSL) powered ahead in the latest financial year recording net profit of more than 1.9 billion, up 17 per cent on the year before. The Parkville, Melbourne based company expects this year to show another profit growth of seven to 10 per cent as it executes its strategy…
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Lithium Australia (ASX: LIT) has successfully refined lithium phosphate from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), and is proceeding to manufacture cathode powders. The company, announced it was producing lithium-ferro-phosphate (LPT) coin cells to test the performance of its re-birthed cathodes, effectively proving its novel battery recycling technologies. The Perth company has also recovered nickle and cobalt…
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Australian-Israeli audio developer Audio Pixels is closer to its goal of a fully digital speaker system following the rectifying of a manufacturing fault that had held up development. The company, valued at $502 million on the Australian exchange, has been developing its digital speakers since 2006 at its Israeli technical centre. However micro-faults in the…
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Radar and communications specialist CEA Technologies has signed the first contract under the Defence Export Facility.
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Research released on Tuesday by Chemistry Australia estimates the chemical sector’s annual economic contribution to Australia as $37.7 billion and 212,000 full-time jobs, and found that each petajoule it uses creates 33 times more value than the LNG industry and 68 times more value than if that gas was used to create power.
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South Australian outdoor furniture brand Sedi has developed bespoke benches and shelter options for smart cities and regional areas.
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Leigh Creek Energy’s (ASX: LCK) success in in-situ coal gassification (ISG) at its South Australian coal deposit has allowed it to take its processes to China where it will be used to turn coal into hydrogen. The company announced today it had signed a heads of agreement with China New Energy (CNE) to form a…
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Applications for plastic recycling grants worth $20 million, originally announced during the federal election campaign, have been opened today.
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By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia ETSI has taken its first steps towards developing standards for IoT applications in emergency communications, issuing a report that looks at how IoT can be used in all types of emergency situations, such as emergency calling and mission critical communications. It also envisages a new use case: automated emergency…
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The South Australian Premier, Steven Marshall has gone to war with his Western Australian counterpart, Mark McGowan, over $8 billion worth of submarine maintenance work. McGowan has taken public a battle to take from Adelaide deep maintenance work on the Collins class submarines. But while the Collins submarines were originally built in Adelaide, they are…
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