UNSW researchers have developed a new gel based on silk from moths with potential to regenerate damaged tissue, and which they hope can one day be used to help patients recover from a heart attack. The team’s paper (linked) in Advanced Functional Materials describes “a novel silk fibroin microgel platform that enhances cell growth and…
Microbiology automation company LBT Innovations has sold five APAS Independence laboratory instruments to pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca AB and will provide maintenance and support services over seven years. The total contract value is worth up to $4.1 million depending on the level of services required, and is in addition to the lease of a sixth instrument…
Australia’s newly minted Assistant Minister for a Future Made in Australia Tim Ayres believes opportunities such as the revitalisation of manufacturing come around rarely. Today is one of those opportunities he argues in this excerpt from his address to the National Manufacturing Summit. As the Prime Minister said back in April – we need to…
The Electrolux Group’s Adelaide factory has been recognised in the South Australian Climate Leaders Awards for their continued commitment to climate change. The Adelaide factory which manufactures kitchen ovens was adjudged the winner of the Large Enterprise category. Electrolux is the only large whitegoods company still manufacturing in Australia, employing approximately 450 local workers. The…
Peak steel body the Australian Steel Institute (ASI) is seeking state and federal government support for local steel fabricators and manufacturers, after research revealed the local industry is being seriously undercut by a glut of cheap imports. An ASI survey of steel fabricators and manufacturers in July 2024 revealed 86 percent had reduced profit margins…
Australia has formally joined the US-led Landsat Next satellite programme in a humiliating endpoint to out abandonment of an indigenous Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) R&D development. Developing our own EOS was a victim of cuts meted out to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources in the first Chalmers budget, cuts which shocked the science…
