CSL continues its focus on R&D
Blood products and pharmaceutical group CSL (ASX: CSL) is continuing its focus on innovation, spending more that $1.21 billion (US$832 million) on research in 2019.
MOU signed to provide fridges for frigates
Cold Logic has entered into an agreement with Ernest West & Beynon to fulfil Australian Navy refrigeration needs.
JSF supplier Marand wins manufacturer category at Australian Export Awards
Winners at the 57th Australian Export Awards were named at a ceremony at Parliament House, Canberra.
First Australian medicinal cannabis produced in Queensland
THC Global Group (ASX:THC) has completed the first farm-to-pharma processing of medicinal cannabis in Australia at its Southport manufacturing facility (pictured) in Queensland. The Southport Facility is the largest pharmaceutical bio-floral extraction facility in the Southern Hemisphere and is licenced and permitted to process medicinal cannabis. THC Global CEO Ken Charteris said: “Completing this Australian…
Thales hook up the latest space agency agreement
The Australian Space Agency signed a collaboration agreement with French communications and defence company Thales this week, one of numerous such agreements with nations, states and international and local space industry leaders signed by the young agency. Agency boss Dr Megan Clarke (pictured) has been acive signing alliances and said its new agreement with space…
Calix joins Future Battery Industries CRC as key participant
Listed Australian technology company Calix (ASX:CXL) has announced it has joined the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBI-CRC) as a key participant.
Chemistry means low-emission steelmaking alternatives remain a challenge: Bluescope boss
Widespread adoption of breakthrough low-emission steelmaking was a “considerable way off,” the CEO of Bluescope has said. According to The Australian Financial Review, Mark Vasella said the steelmaking industry was striving to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and there were alternatives to using fossil fuel-based energy, but the traditional use of carbon required to…
Holden boss departs amid dismal sales
Holden Boss Dave Buttner has departed only 16 months into his tenure in the top job as consumers continue to desert the once top selling local manufacturer. Buttner, a former top executive of Toyota Australia, came out of retirement to create a new image for Holden post-manufacture, but will now be replaced by the sales…
Banning Huawei could cut off our nose to spite our face. Good 5G matters
Productivity growth matters. In advanced economies over the past 15 years it has fallen by half.
Submarine costs spiraling into the stratosphere
Comment by Peter Roberts There is increasing evidence that Australia’s decision to ditch its indigenous experience building the Collins Class submarine and buy a completely new design from France is turning out to be a costly mistake. I have always argued that the best path for Australia would have been to build a modified Collins,…