World first integrated driverless technology trial launched in Australia
A smart transit hub nicknamed Matilda has been launched in South Australia to test the integration of autonomous vehicles into daily life.
CEA Technologies and Austal to boost defence exports
Canberra’s CEA Technologies and Perth’s Austal (ASX: ASB) are the first manufacturers to receive federal government loans from the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) to boost Australian defence exports. A loan of $90 million has been made to CEA to help build a new manufacturing plant to build its CEAFAR phased array radars in…
Recycling is not enough. Zero-packaging stores show we can kick our plastic addiction
Wrapped, sealed, boxed, cling-filmed and vacuum packed. We have become used to consumables being packaged in every way imaginable.
Australian startup aims to assemble EVs in Q4 2019
To the optimists, there are reasons why electric vehicle manufacture in Australia is a real possibility. Greg McGarvie, the co-founder of ACE-EV Group and GetGreen, is one of them.
Two thirds of online businesses sell offshore
Australians are setting up online businesses in ever greater numbers, but only a fraction of Australian companies are selling goods offshore. A global survey by payments company, Stripe, found 66 per cent of Australian online businesses were selling offshore. This is a higher level of internationalisation than businesses in the United States, where 45 per…
Impression Healthcare wins right to sell medical cannabis products
Local manufacturer Impression Healthcare (ASX: IHL) has received the required licenses to allow it to make and sell medical cannabis products in Australia. The company announced today it had received licenses from the Victorian Department of Health to sell products containing four scheduled cannabinoid substances. The approvals cover cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD), tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) and dronabinol.…
The mounting threat from the US China trade war
Analysis by Peter Roberts It has been slow to come but the costs and disruption being wrought on world trade by the United States and China’s trade war are now clearly being felt. In a series of mutual escalations since March the US and China have imposed tit for tat tariffs on hundreds of billions…
Latrobe Magnesium protects its technology
Latrobe Magnesium (ASX: LMG) which is developing a project to produce magnesium metal in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley has extended protection for its unique technology with the granting of a patent in India. The patent, which adds to protection in Australia, the US, EU, China and Indonesia, protects the company’s 100 per cent owned electrolytic…
Two businesses begin new year with listings in @AuManufacturing’s business directory
@AuManufacturing welcomes its two newest business directory listings, MPE Contractors and Canrock Advisory.
Is now the time to cut local content requirements?
Analysis by Peter Roberts As we enter 2019 we are seeing a a gradual slowing of the Australian economy, with manufacturing’s contraction in the most recent month just one of the early warning signs things are off the boil. A combination of a tapering off of infrastructure spending, soft consumer confidence linked to falling real…