Building products group CSR has announced a net profit after tax for the financial year ended 31 March 2024 of $240 million, up seven percent on the previous year. Statutory net profit after tax was $231 million on flat trading revenue of $2.6 billion while group earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) was $332 million,…
Emeritus Professor Roy Green of UTS Sydney said the budget responded to a critical moment in Australia’s economic history. Green said: The world is shifting from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy to meet net zero targets. “And it is recognising the importance of participating in the industries of the future by moving up…
A loss of sovereign control of industry is a key issue raised in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Here, Allen Roberts examines innovation in the critical food manufacturing sector. The recent declaration of ‘A Future Made in Australia’ by the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has put the…
Aluminium chemicals company Alpha HPA’s Alpha Sapphire has successfully grown the first ~300kg of synthetic sapphire crystal boules (pictured) in maiden growth runs from the company’s first two sapphire growth units at the facility in Gladstone, Queensland. The facility, which recently achieved its first small scale commercial production of high purity aluminium nitrate (Al-nitrate,) produced…
By Peter Roberts The 2024 budget has responded to the issues being raised by @AuManufacturing’s one-month long series of articles around the theme Towards 3% R&D – turbocharging Australia’s innovation efforts. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a ‘strategic examination of Australian research and development’ as part of the Future Made in Australia package of measures. According…
Deakin University’s Carbon Nexus research facility – home to what the university says is the world’s biggest open-access carbon fibre pilot line – will turn ten this month. In a statement on Tuesday, Deakin said a key goal of the facility at its Waurn Ponds campus has been delivering scalable research outcomes to regional Victoria.…
Building products group CSR has announced a net profit after tax for the financial year ended 31 March 2024 of $240 million, up seven percent on the previous year. Statutory net profit after tax was $231 million on flat trading revenue of $2.6 billion while group earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) was $332 million,…
Emeritus Professor Roy Green of UTS Sydney said the budget responded to a critical moment in Australia’s economic history. Green said: The world is shifting from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy to meet net zero targets. “And it is recognising the importance of participating in the industries of the future by moving up…
A loss of sovereign control of industry is a key issue raised in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Here, Allen Roberts examines innovation in the critical food manufacturing sector. The recent declaration of ‘A Future Made in Australia’ by the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has put the…
Aluminium chemicals company Alpha HPA’s Alpha Sapphire has successfully grown the first ~300kg of synthetic sapphire crystal boules (pictured) in maiden growth runs from the company’s first two sapphire growth units at the facility in Gladstone, Queensland. The facility, which recently achieved its first small scale commercial production of high purity aluminium nitrate (Al-nitrate,) produced…
By Peter Roberts The 2024 budget has responded to the issues being raised by @AuManufacturing’s one-month long series of articles around the theme Towards 3% R&D – turbocharging Australia’s innovation efforts. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a ‘strategic examination of Australian research and development’ as part of the Future Made in Australia package of measures. According…
Deakin University’s Carbon Nexus research facility – home to what the university says is the world’s biggest open-access carbon fibre pilot line – will turn ten this month. In a statement on Tuesday, Deakin said a key goal of the facility at its Waurn Ponds campus has been delivering scalable research outcomes to regional Victoria.…
Sponsored article Australia’s space ambitions are set to reach greater heights with projects like the Melbourne Space Program (MSP), where some of the nation’s brightest students are not just dreaming about space—they’re exploring it. Through the ACRUX-2 project, MSP students are gaining hands-on experience by designing, building, and launching an Earth-imaging satellite. Altium supports these…
Latrobe Magnesium has commissioned the first phase of its 1,000 tonnes per annum, Stage 1 Demonstration Plant, successfully producing the world’s first environmentally sustainable magnesium oxide (MgO) from fly ash waste from brown coal power generation. This marks a significant milestone in pioneering a sustainable magnesium extraction method at an industrial scale, using the company’s…
Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy explains how the government has built new structures to link defence innovation with commercial outcomes, building the defence industrial base in the process. A strong and sovereign innovation, science and technology sector is critical to…
Optiscan Imaging has entered into a collaboration through a know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic in the US to develop a digital confocal laser endomicroscopic imaging system for use in robotic surgery. The collaboration combines Optiscan’s engineering expertise in digital endomicroscopic hardware and software development with Mayo Clinic’s know-how in robotic surgery and quality patient care,…
