Brent is a co-founder and editor of @AuManufacturing.
For the first story in @AuManufacturing’s new Packaging, process and progress series, we hear from Nina Nguyen, founder of award-winning custom packaging and print company Pakko. By Brent Balinski.
Today we launch our latest editorial series, which will run until the end of the week.
In the final day of @AuManufacturing’s editorial series, Excellence in maritime manufacturing, we visit communications specialist GME, which opened a new Zone 4 secure manufacturing facility this week to help it realise its ambitions in defence. GME has a long history in electronics manufacture in Australia, though its efforts in defence only go back about…
Today @AuManufacturing’s editorial series Excellence in maritime manufacturing looks at collaborative R&D on tougher shipbuilding steel in Australia.
Gilmour Space Technologies has been awarded a $15 million contract to develop and launch a new sovereign surveillance satellite, with launch scheduled for mid-2023.
Manildra gets $85 million CEFC investment to help exit coal The nation’s biggest ethanol manufacturer, Manildra Group, will draw on an $85 million CEFC investment to exit coal at its primary production site at Nowra, NSW. The investment on behalf of the Australian Government will see factory eliminate coal from its energy mix, replacing this…
University of NSW Sydney spinout robotics business Contactile has announced a $2.5 million seed round, led by Silicon Valley-headquartered True Ventures.
In space, no one can do without a team, according to the members of a new Sydney incubator. By Brent Balinski.
Vaxxas appoints ex-Ellume exec as new COO Syringe-free vaccine delivery company Vaxxas has announced Dr Scott Fry as its new chief operating officer, leading its engineering and manufacturing activities. Fry was most recently COO at Ellume, also based in Brisbane, which manufactures Covid-19 test kits. Vaxxas said in a statement on Thursday that Fry’s experience…
Federal funding for the second Trailblazer program was announced on Wednesday, with the University of Adelaide-led Defence Trailblazer for Concept to Sovereign Capability (CSC) gaining $50 million for commercialisation of research focussed on defence applications.