Eco Detection was a recent Top 10 Gold award winner in this title’s Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers campaign. Brent Balinski visited their Melbourne factory to learn about what drives their innovation program, and the role of local suppliers, customers and researchers in this. The story of Eco Detection – which makes “lab in…
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International Graphite has received works approval from the Western Australian Government to install new graphite micronising equipment at the company’s downstream research and development facility at Collie in the state’s south-west. The equipment is in transit from North America and is expected to arrive at Fremantle Port next month for installation at the company’s downstream…
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Industrial technologies developer Calix has reported strong FY23 results underpinned by its traditional water treatment business and novel technologies that have positioned it as a leader in decarbonisation of the cement sector, lithium processing and advanced battery materials. The company reported revenue up 43 percent to $29.6 million underpinned by its US and Asia Pacific…
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The CSIRO has been named a Supplier of the Year by the world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing, for the fifth time since 2010. CSIRO had previously won at the 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2010 iterations of the supplier recognition program. This year it was one of 12 award winners — which were mainly from the…
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Satellite communications SME Blacktree Technology has credited “increasing and diverse European demand” for an almost 400 per cent growth in export revenues in the last financial year to approximately $1.2 million. These contracts “represent the largest value of export sales” in the company’s history, it said on Thursday, with new partnerships formed in Italy, France…
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Needle-free vaccine delivery company Vaxxas has announced it was awarded $5.4 million from charitable foundation Wellcome for initial studies and a Phase I clinical trial of a potential second-generation typhoid vaccine delivered using Vaxxas’ technology. In a statement on Thursday, the Brisbane-based clinical-stage company said the project is expected to be completed within two years,…
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Packaging business Orora Beverages has unveiled a new aluminium can line at its Dandenong site, part of a round of upgrades totalling $110 million, during a visit by Victorian manufacturing minister Ben Carroll and local MP Gabrielle Williams. The line uses aluminium coil, which contains mostly recycled content, which is mechanically and chemically treated, cured…
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Australian markets are being flooded with non-compliant products that threaten both consumers and manufacturers alike. Here Neil Clout argues that weak regulations, rarely enforced are eroding Australia’s industrial and skills base. In the vast landscape of global commerce, the competition is fierce, and the stakes are high. For Australian manufacturers, the challenges are particularly daunting.…
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CSL opens new HQ and R&D centre Biotechnology giant CSL has opened its new Headquarters and Centre for R&D which will house more than 850 people dedicated to protecting public health and bringing life-saving innovative therapies to patients. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (pictured) congratulated CSL on the opening. Albanese said: “This world-leading research will…
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Cold spray additive manufacturing business Titomic has announced receipt of a purchase order from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces for a D523 low-pressure cold spray system, worth 58,379 Euro ($99,168 at the time of the announcement.) The machine was purchased on behalf of the Fleet Support Service of the French Navy, and is…
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