A long-running quarterly industrial survey has found conditions were expansionary in the June quarter, but growth is being held back by labour and material pressures as bad as they’ve been in a half-century.
A new agrifood technology venture capitalist is on track to raise $50 million to back the development of novel food products as well as automation in growing and production. Mandalay Venture Partners has more than $21 million in commitments towards closing its first fund with motoring organisation NRMA and leading technology players among investors. Mandalay…
NeuRizer has executed an Infrastructure utilisation Licence Agreement with the South Australian government allowing the exclusive use of existing infrastructure at the site of the NeuRizer Urea Project (NRUP), at Leigh Creek in the north of the state. The agreement allows for significant efficiencies and cost savings by leveraging existing infrastructure on site, which once…
Boundary Power has been selected to deliver the power upgrade of the Broome North Wastewater Treatment Plant owned by the Western Australian Water Corporation. The company’s Kiosk Renewable Stand-Alone Power System (SAPS) will be incorporated into existing infrastructure to provide safe, reliable, off-grid solar and battery power. The system can deliver larger loads, with a…
A team led by Sydney biomedical engineer Dr Arnold Lining Ju (pictured) is developing a biomedical micro-device to detect subtle platelet changes in a drop of blood, predicting a a heart attack or stroke before it takes place. Using a pin-prick test, the micro-device would take a blood sample from a person’s finger to be…
A new Setting up industrial regions for net zero report has looked at the cost and the opportunity of decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors in five major industrial regions, concluding that this will require investing in renewable energy representing an additional 25-47 per cent of the nation’s total electricity generation, or 68.3 to 125.9 terawatt hours (TWh.)
Trajan Scientific and Medical has announced it will acquire Kentucky-based analytical consumables business Chromatography Research Supplies for $US 43.3 million ($AUD 61.9 million.)
Perth international shipbuilder Austal has announced signing of $300 million in new contracts as well as a big step forward for the company with the commencement of steel shipbuilding in the United States. CEO Paddy Gregg told investors that in recent weeks the company has been awarded contracts to: Sustain two Cape class patrol boats…
Magnesium refinery plan for Collie Perth’s South West Development Commission has progressed a bid to establish a ‘game-changing carbon neutral magnesium refinery’ at the coal mining city of Collie in Western Australia. With the nearby state-owned Muja and Collie power stations to be retired in response to massive uptake of renewables, a pre-feasibility study has…
The first four M113AS4 Armoured Personnel Carriers being gifted to Ukraine departed RAAF Base Amberley last week where they will join other Australian equipment including Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles. Loaded into a Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 aircraft, the four vehicles are the first of 14 M113AS4s to be provided by Australia as part of a $284…
