As we have been publishing our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – new statistics have emerged that show that even higher education research, until now a national strongpoint, is faltering. Professor Roy Green details the biggest decline ever recorded in higher education research. The newly released Australian Bureau of…
Submarine builder ASC has acknowledged industrial action underway at its headquarters at Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide and pledged to work for a mutually beneficial outcome to the dispute. However according to an unconfirmed report on Channel 7 news the government owned business cut a proposed wage rise of 10 percent to 6.75 percent, suggesting…
The federal government has awarded building materials group Adbri a $50 million grant as part of the Commonwealth’s Powering the Regions Fund which will speed decarbonisation of hard to abate cement production. The funds will increase capacity and production of lower carbon cementitious products at the company’s Birkenhead, Adelaide cement plant, South Australia’s largest. The…
Biofuels are one of Australia’s biggest industrial and environmental opportunities. Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Geoff Bell looks at what is needed to make promise a reality. Australia, with its extensive demand for air travel and rich natural resources like biomass, solar and wind, is…
Cyclopharm’s Technegas radiopharmaceutical imaging system has achieved a streamlined reimbursement approval process in the United States, boosting its prospects in what is the world’s largest market. The Sydney company has received a Coding Determination for Technegas from the Center for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS), which means users will have a unique identifier which streamlines their…
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced $22.5 million in funding for 50 fellowships under the Industry Fellowships Program. Projects cover salary contributions for up to three years and project costs up to $150,000 under the program, which operates across industry, community organisation, not-for-profit, and other sectors and seeks “to facilitate the adoption, translation and…
Packaging and recycling company Visy has launched its first retail product range, temporary floor and surface protection made from recycled paper. In a statement on Monday, the company said Visy Tread is being made at its paper mills at Reservoir and Coolaroo in Melbourne from 100 per cent recycled paper, and can be easily recycled…
An update on the Australian industrial gases market has calculated its value at an estimated $4.2 billion, growing 1.1 per cent per annum on average over the years 2019 – 2024. Market research firm IBISWorld has published selected details from its new Industrial Gas Manufacturing in Australia report, estimating the two largest companies – BOC…
Perth’s Hazer Group is to licence its Hazer Process for producing hydrogen and graphite to Canadian utility FortisBC which will construct a hydrogen production facility in British Columbia – the first to use the process overseas. Hazer will provide engineering services for the Hazer production facility with a design capacity of up to 2,500 tonnes…
Pharmaceutical manufacturer IDT Australia has announced that it has been awarded a Victorian government grant to assist in the establishment of an Australian-first facility for oncology drugs. In an ASX statement on Monday, IDT said it has established relationships with Antibody-Drug-Conjugate (ADC) biotech companies, including a master services agreement with Japanese pharmaceutical company Nagase &…
