Senior representatives from the world’s most celebrated wine regions have arrived in South Australia for the Great Wine Capitals of the World Annual General Meeting. This is the first such week-long global gathering since Adelaide was named a Great Wine Capital in 2016. International guests will visit some of Australia’s most iconic cellar doors including…
Drone technology company Emescent has raised $3.5 million in venture capital to commercialise Hovermap, which utilises autonomous drones to map underground mines. The company, a spin-out from CSIRO, raised the capital from Main Sequence Ventures and Bechtel mining executive, Andy Greig. Hovermap consists of a LiDAR mapping payload equipped with autonomous technology that automates the…
Hearing implant maker Cochlear (ASX:COH) today (November 5) announced a US court had made a massive patent infringement order against it in the latest round of a long-running patent infringement case in the United States. A US court awarded the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (AMF) and Advanced Bionics LLC (AB) damages of…
Analysis by Peter Roberts. Remember Malcolm Turnbull’s innovation nation? It was flavour of the month but interest evaporated when the word failed to resonate with voters and the then Prime Minister turned to more pressing issues. The rise and fall of innovation under this government is just another chapter in the marginalisation of what arguably…
Adelaide desalination and water treatment manufacturer, Osmoflo is groaning at the seams at its Burton factory as it completes a number of major water purification projects. The company, which uses sophisticated membranes to desalinate and purify water, appears to have been benefiting from an upturn in mining investment across Australia. “Projects we are currently working…
Adelaide’s Codan Radio Communications is to supply the Bangladesh Army with 200 Codan Patrol 2110M Manpacks providing portable tactical communications capabilities. The company, a division of Codan Limited (ASX: CDA), said the deal gave the company “another multimillion dollar partnership in the Asia Pacific Region.” The company offered “a technically compliant product with superior quality…
Anthony Pratt, global chairman of Pratt Industries and Visy Industries has released a video of the company’e new cardboard box factory at Truganina in Victoria. While dwarfed by the company’s $1 billion investment in the much larger US market, the Victorian plant adds to local capacity to recycle paper and cardboard. Pratt has committed to…
The Australian Industry Group’s PMI released this morning recorded a result of 58.3. It is down a fraction of a point, but still well above 50, the line separating contraction and expansion.
Over the decade Geelong has developed an impressive collection of research and industrial capabilities around carbon fibre. But it’s not the only engineered material in the region, and a new joint venture plans to turn world-leading research in boron nitride nanotubes into new products and wealth.
Comment by Peter Roberts. We have all heard tiresome comments such as ‘Australian manufacturing is dead’ and ‘do we still make anything here?’ They come from the ignorant but they also conform to what was accepted wisdom in the community for decades. The good news is we will hear less of that defeatist talk from…
