Best of the week — the five most popular stories among readers, October 20 – October 24, 2025

Manufacturing News

What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) $250 million-plus Additive Manufacturing CRC launched at Boeing A new seven-year Cooperative Research Centre, the Additive Manufacturing CRC, was officially launched at an event at Boeing Aerostructures Australia’s Port Melbourne facility on Wednesday. The successful CRC bid was awarded $58 million in…

SeaStock gets $740,000 FaBa funding to progress seaweed-based red food dye production

Manufacturing News

Algae-based food ingredients company SeaStock has been awarded $740,000 in funding from Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) for a project developing red pigment from asparagopsis seaweed. Australian asparagopsis research has led to numerous startups using the red algae to create food supplements, which in small dosages can greatly reduce the amount of methane (a…

Federal government awards $28 million to Relectrify to progress BESS breakthrough

Manufacturing News

Battery technology company Relectrify, which aims to provide “the operating system for the world’s best battery energy storage systems” (BESS), has been awarded $25 million through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to accelerate its AC1 BESS product. According to a statement from ARENA on Wednesday, the funding supports a project which will “deploy up…

Thin-film composite membranes ready for translation, say RMIT researchers

Technology

RMIT University researchers have developed what they say are ultra-thin filters with promise for making chemical manufacturing and recycling more energy- and cost-efficient, and are looking to bring their invention into industrial use. A statement from the university on Thursday describes the filters as combining “super-thin layers of boron nitride” and aramid synthetic fibres, offering…