The Australian Made, Australian Grown logo has been registered in three new destinations, the Australian Made Campaign Limited announced on Tuesday. Singapore, New Zealand and Thailand have formally recognised the trademark across ten product classes, following work by IP specialist firm Wrays. According to Austrade data, these destinations were the sixth, eighth and 14th-biggest importers…
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Drone manufacturer Carbonix has partnered with electricity distributor SA Power Networks and communications group Nokia to utilise long-range Un-Crewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for aerial inspection on remote electricity lines and network assets. In the initial phase of the partnership a Carbonix Volanti UAV (pictured) will be used to prove the Beyond Visual Line of Sight…
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ADVERTISING FEATURE By RapidDirect A lot of businesses have benefited from traditional manufacturing techniques. These businesses discovered that they could produce parts in large quantities so they won’t have to stress whenever a customer demands and needs them. However, acquiring a quote can be quite challenging when a company needs a custom product. The engineer…
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Australian Dairy Nutritionals’ bad news from the US Infant formula manufacturer Australian Dairy Nutritionals has been informed by the US Food and Drug Administration that its application to sell its branded formula in the US has not been accepted. The FDA had previously given the green light to other brands from our region a2 Milk…
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By Peter Roberts Australia’s oldest cement manufacturer Adbri has doubled down on its commitment to net zero emissions from producing what are some of the world’s most important, but hard to abate, manufactures – cement and lime. Used in construction and industries such as steel making Adbri’s products are highly carbon intensive, but it would…
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Federal and State and Territory Skills and Training Ministers met last week to progress a range of key vocational education and training reform and workforce matters. The Ministers issued a joint statement, below, which sets out their priorities and aspirations for vocational education and training. Skills Ministers’ Priorities Skills Ministers discussed the continued imperative for…
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Today in our editorial series on Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Peter Roberts gives an observer’s view of Australian manufacturing over more than four decades, our lost opportunities and where semiconductors could have fitted in. When it comes down to it, the story of disappointment that has been the lack of development of a…
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After a long history, during which it has only fairly recently improved past the point where it rapidly induces nausea in a user, virtual reality has begun demonstrating its worth in recent years. You will probably have been to expos and heard about how CAD files can easily be turned into an object in a…
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Beginning the second week of our editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Andre Saraiva looks at Australia’s heritage in quantum computing, and suggests that the nation could turn a chip crisis into a quantum opportunity. A stone’s throw away from Bondi and Coogee, silicon-based quantum computing was invented. This was 1998, and…
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As we have said many times before, one of the defining features of manufacturing in this country is the large number of small businesses. This has a big influence on overall levels of technology adoption, R&D investment, collaboration with outside parties, and much else. Of employing manufacturing businesses, nearly nine-tenths are between 1 and 19…
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