The maker of Penfolds wines Treasury Wine Estates gone live with the largest winery solar installation in Australia at its Barossa Winery and Production Centre in South Australia. Commissioned 12 months ago and now operational, there are almost 6,000 solar panels at the Barossa site alone, putting wines including Penfolds, Wynns, Squealing Pig and Pepperjack…
The number of students undertaking vocational education and training (VET) as part of secondary education has decreased in the past year, according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). In 2022 there were 242,945 VET in Schools students according to NCVER, a 3.3 percent decline from 2021. Of those…
Preliminary master planning is underway for Iron Road’s planned multi-purpose, multi-user deep-sea port for iron, grain and green hydrogen and ammonia export at Cape Hardy on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The company’s Central Eyre Iron Project will integrate a ‘green pellet’ plant fuelled by renewable energy, using high grade concentrate from the company’s Central…
Country Road has announced the first grant recipients through its Climate Fund, a three-year, $1.5 million grants program announced last year, backing projects led by Full Circle Fibres, Landcare Australia and Trust for Nature. In a statement on Thursday, the clothing company said it received 40 applications, with an Assessment Committee undertaking “in-depth due diligence”…
The federal government has announced that it has selected Hanwha Defense Australia as the preferred tenderer to deliver 129 infantry fighting vehicles to the Australian Army. The Government has also decided that the new vehicles will be built in Australia at Hanwha’s facilities now under construction at Avalon airport in Geelong, Victoria. Conroy said the…
By Roy Green, University of Technology Sydney This week’s appointment of Wayne Swan’s former chief of staff Chris Barrett to head the Productivity Commission puts the annual Trade and Assistance Review it released this month under a more searching spotlight than usual. Remarkably, the Commission used the review to target one of the key policies…
Australian wine exports were down by volume and value over the last financial year, according to Wine Australia’s Australian Wine Export Report, released on Thursday. Exports declined 10 per cent by value to $1.87 billion and 1 per cent by volume to 621 million litres, according to the figures. The US market “is experiencing structural…
A federal government science grant and industry funding has sparked the creation of a new research and industry hub targeting the development of new radiopharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical developer Starpharma has partnered with the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney in establishing the ARC Research Hub for Advanced Manufacture of Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals (AMTAR Hub). Backed…
In recent days @AuManufacturing readers have critiqued federal governments efforts to ‘reform the Productivity Commission (see below). Here in our final part of a series, Tim Buckley argues Australia cannot afford more of the same from the PC, which continued to misread profound societal and economic change underway globally. Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ announcement yesterday of…
A new partnership between regional metal can manufacturer Jamestrong and the UNSW SMaRT Centre is developing a project they hope will revolutionise aluminium manufacturing and recycling in Australia. The partnership will establish Jamestrong as the one of the first in the world to not only make aerosol cans from recycled content, but from waste currently…
