New CEO named for Advanced Fibre Cluster Geelong
Jennifer Conley has been announced as the new CEO of the Advanced Fibre Cluster Geelong.
NMW 2019 wraps up. See you next year
National Manufacturing Week 2019 wrapped up late on Friday afternoon, with over 11,000 manufacturing professionals attending the 20th edition of the biennial Melbourne event.
New IoT partnership to monitor world’s water resources
A South Australian IoT leader and cloud-based environmental platform have launched a global partnership to provide direct-to-orbit water meter connectivity.
Another Adelaide EV manufacturing announcement as Evant and BYD sign MoU
China’s BYD Co and Adelaide’s Evant have signed a memorandum of understanding to import and adapt electric vehicles, with an aim to increasing the amount of local content in the vehicles over time.
New Industry 4.0 report says ‘call to action’ needed for Australian manufacturers
A new report containing research by Siemens, PwC, Swinburne University and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has been released, identifying the ways Australian manufacturers can transform to seize the opportunities presented by the global Industry 4.0 movement.
Electric vehicles to recharge Australian manufacturing
Australian Clean Energy Electric Vehicle Group (ACE-EV) has signed a deal to begin assembling carbon fibre composite and plastic electric vans at the Aldom manufacturing plant in Wingfield, north of Adelaide’s CBD, this year.
The mother of all benders
A privilege of this role is that we at the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) get to see Australian ideas of all kinds evolve into high-value products and jobs.
Carr pledges $2 million sodium ion battery pilot plant for Geelong
The federal opposition has pledged $2 million for a pilot sodium ion battery manufacturing plant in Geelong as part of a $57 million electric vehicle policy announced yesterday.
SA’s food waste solutions set to drive a new economy
Food waste is global scourge of alarming enormity – worth an estimated $1.6 trillion annually – but South Australia is placed at the forefront of finding new ecological and economic solutions.
LeafCann gets licence to manufacture medical cannabis
LeafCann Manufacturing, a subsidiary of LeafCann Group, has gained a licence from the Australian Office of Drug Control to manufacture medical cannabis.