The new Connected Health Innovation and Commercialisation Centre (CHICC) in Melbourne’s CBD has been launched, and will offer services including skills training, a concierge to connect businesses with investors, and an accelerator program. According to a statement from state industry minister Ben Carroll (second from left), the William Street-located centre will support up to 500…
Hazer Group to receive $9.45 million R&D tax incentive Technology development company the Hazer Group has announced approval has been received of its FY2022 R&D tax incentive refund from the federal government of $9.45 million. The company, which is constructing a commercial demonstration plant in Western Australia to demonstrate the Hazer process for producing hydrogen…
Metal additive manufacturing business Conflux Technology has announced a partnership with Germany’s Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), which will see one of the Australian company’s heat exchangers incorporated in an orbital rocket In a statement from Conflux on Wednesday, the company said one of their heat exchangers would be embedded in a gas duct of a…
Everyone is collecting more and more data in their operations, but its effectiveness is in how you use it to increase value for the customer. Here, Tim McLean reviews the data scene, urges us not to give up all the old, visual management ways, and outlines what we need to look for in a Manufacturing…
Sun Cable, which is developing a proposal to supply renewably generated electricity from the Norther Territory to Singapore via undersea cable, has diversified its business offering with an agreement to supply energy to mining group Tivan Ltd. Tivan is progressing development of its Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project project in the Northern Territory. Utilising its 100…
Alpha HPA has announced support from the Queensland government worth “up to $21.7 million”, which it will use to support Stage 2 of its HPA First project in Gladstone. In a statement to the ASX on Wednesday, Alpha said the funding from department of state development would support capital expenditure for Stage 2 (full-scale) at…
The Ai Group Australian Industry Index (Aii) fell in March 2023, dropping 4.4 points to -6.1 points (seasonally adjusted). This indicates mildly contractionary conditions. The index, which complements the Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index, and also covers business services sectors including utilities, transport, ICT and technical services, has been in contraction since May 2022. Key…
First baby to be born through utilisation of Memphasys technology Biotechnology company Memphasys has announced that India’s Coimbatore Women’s Hospital Centre has seen the first live birth of a healthy baby boy, conceived utilising the company’s patented system for selecting healthy sperm for IVF procedures. Memphaysys’s Felix instrument uses uses an electric force and polymer…
The legislating of the federal government’s National Reconstruction Fund could be a critical moment in a renaissance in Australian manufacturing, or the moment could be squandered depending on how it is rolled out. Here, Allen Roberts lays out some learnings from the past, that could help the NRF meet what is a massive challenge ahead.…
The first entries are in in the Australian Manufacturing Forum networking group and @AuManufacturing’s hunt to identify and celebrate Australia’s 50 most innovative manufacturers. We can’t give away too much about what we have seen so far, but we can say innovation in manufacturing takes many forms – from innovation in product, process, materials, technology…