A $35 million upgrade has been completed at The Magnum Ice Cream Company’s Minto facility in southwest Sydney, where 400 are employed and nearly three million ice cream servings are made every day. According to an announcement on Thursday from the maker of brands including Blue Ribbon, Golden Gaytime, Magnum and Paddle Pop, the investment…
Wauchope, NSW-based precast concrete panel maker Solidcast has been awarded a $2,033,000 grant through the state government’s Net Zero Manufacturing Initiative to expand its operations. According to a statement from NSW energy minister Penny Sharpe on Friday, the funding will help the Mid North Coast company increase production of its low-carbon concrete panels and lead…
QUT has launched an upgrade to its Mackay-based Pioneer BioPilot, which it says has made the facility into the nation’s top pilot-scale fermentation facility. The $18 million investment in the QUT Pioneer BioPilot included support from the federal and state governments and the Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA), and will “empower innovative companies” to…