Last week a home for Australia’s new Space Agency was announced, with the headquarters to open mid-next year at the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site. Brent Balinski spoke to Fleet Space Technologies founder and CEO Flavia Tata Nardini about why she believes SA is the place for space business, what it offers for manufacturers, and what to expect in 2019.
Deakin University-headquartered ManuFutures has received $500,000 from the federal government’s Incubator Support Initiative, which the incubator says will be used to accelerate manufacturers’ entry to global markets.
The federal government is launching a strategy to increase Australia’s contribution to the lithium battery value chain, with a major foreign player expected to announce a local investment before the end of the year.
Next year b.box will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its first product and release a next-generation version of its sippy cup, an item you’ve probably seen if you’ve ever been in a Chemist Warehouse.
A road in Adelaide’s Happy Valley has been built using plastic bags, glass bottles and printer cartridges, recycled into an asphalt additive.
ANCA’s Mark Patman shares his story, including setting up production in Thailand followed by improving it back home, at a highly vertically integrated Australian manufacturer of machine tools.
NSW’s Flavourtech, a Griffith-based business making specialised machinery for “aroma recovery, extraction and evaporation solutions”, won the Manufacturing category at last week’s Australian Export Awards. Brent Balinski spoke to Paul Smith, Flavourtech’s Financial Controller, about the company’s expansion, its technology, and its success internationally.
The refusal of car makers to share their technical information and its effect on independent repairers has been in the spotlight lately. There are some similarities to a saga from earlier in the decade, and one which has led to the existence of a company calling itself Australia’s first and only watch manufacturer.
Coca-Cola Amatil has announced today that it will sell its SPC business, following a strategic review launched in August.
Winners in the 56th Australian Export Awards were named at an event in Canberra last night (Tuesday), with the Australian Exporter of the Year title shared by Aspen Medical and SEAPA.