New Somerton plastics recycling plant opens, will create 46 new jobs
Advanced Circular Polymers’ new plastics recycling facility at Somerton, which is Australia’s largest, officially opened this morning.
Melbourne carpet manufacturer proposes ban on nylon and synthetic carpets
Supertuft, a Melbourne manufacturer of woolen carpets, has called for banning nylon and PET plastic pile carpet in Australia and New Zealand, citing the health impacts of flame retardants used in these.
Sports drink start-up attracts investment
South Australian sports beverage start-up Preserve Health has raised more than $500,000 in seed capital to launch later this year. The funding from angel investors and high net-worth individuals will be used to fund the market launch of PREPD – a range of hydration-boosting drinks set to revolutionise endurance sports performance, according to CEO David…
IIC offers tools to assess IoT maturity
By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has released a web-based tool to enable users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity. It says its IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organisations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage and governance of IIoT…
$3.4 million project to take coating technology from university lab to global market by 2021
A three-year project between Deakin University, Xefco and Proficiency Consulting to scale an advanced coating technology has been announced, and is being supported by a $505,231 Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre grant.
Investment boosts sports hydration drink towards US launch
An Australian sports drink developed at leading universities will use its latest round of funding to expand nationally ahead of a US launch next year.
CSR Hebel marks $75 million expansion
Leaders of building products group CSR (ASX: CSR) have marked the completion of a new $75 million factory at the company’s annual general meeting. The company recently completed its new Somersby plant in New South Wales to manufacture Hebel autoclaved aerated concrete blocks and panels. Chairman John Gillam told the AGM the new plant was…
Ocius successfully trials unmanned naval vessel
Autonomous systems builder Ocius has successfully trialled its Bluebottle unmanned surface vessel (USV) developed as part of a $3 million Defence innovation contract. The 18 foot Bluebottle prototype successfully identified and navigated around surface vessels such as speed boats in trials off the NSW coast, and maintained speed in various sea conditions. Bluebottle is normally…
Gas prices could send more manufacturers offshore, warns CSR boss
Chair of building products company CSR has said Australian manufacturers were paying gas prices similar to or greater than those in gas-poor Asian countries, and that this could end up sending companies offshore.
Number of Australian automotive manufacturers up since 2015, “positive signs are emerging,” says new report
An investigation into automotive manufacturing in Australia by ACA Research has found the number of companies increased from 260 to 300, employing 9,800, and with a combined value of $4 billion.