Lighting specialist to get new Netherlands-based owner
Gerard Lighting Group has announced that it will sell lighting technology company Pierlite to Netherlands-headquartered Signify, with the sale expected to conclude in the first half of the year.
Govt told to put green steel and hydrogen at heart of manufacturing rebuild
A Cooperative Research Centre for sustainable manufacturing should be established to support new domestic green metal and green hydrogen industries, a Labor-led Senate inquiry into Australian manufacturing has recommended.
Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management: Manufacturers’ IAM blind spots
Today our Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management series, Chris Grove explains why rather than planning to ‘not fail’ in any aspect of an IAM program, we should be planning to fail.
Use budget to boost manufacturing initiative, encourage reshoring: AFGC
Industry association the Australian Food and Grocery Council has proposed additional incentives to expand and grow local production in its 2022-23 federal budget submission.
K-TIG to build new welding R&D facility at BAE’s Factory of the Future
K-TIG has announced that it will build an R&D facility at BAE Systems Australia’s Line Zero – Factory of the Future, located within Tonsley Innovation District, aiming to demonstrate the usefulness of its automated welding technology for shipbuilding and other industrial sectors.
New lotus-inspired bioplastic repels water and dirt, is ready for industrialisation: RMIT researchers
RMIT researchers have developed a new bioplastic, inspired by lotus leaves, which they say is compostable, strong, suitable for food packaging applications, as well as possible to produce in industrial volumes. The material repels water and dirt, according to a statement from the university, and uses starch and cellulose as its base materials. (See video…
Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management: Five steps SMEs can take to be more cyber secure
Today our Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management series provides a few more pieces of important advice to beef up security for small and medium-sized enterprises. Here Sam Silva presents five things to consider.
Senate report sets manufacturing battle lines for the election
The federal Opposition has backed the creation of a manufacturing industry fund, regular reviews of R&D incentives, as well as changes to procurement rules to encourage the development of sovereign capability in a Senate report which sets the manufacturing battle lines for the upcoming election.
BHP extends ironmaking R&D program with University of Newcastle
BHP has announced an extension of its support for University of Newcastle’s Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research (CIMR) over the next five years, with a focus on on low- carbon iron and steelmaking and using the resources company’s iron ore and coking coal. According to a statement from BHP on Monday, it would provide $10…
Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management: Three ways manufacturers can set up a successful digital identity protection strategy
To begin week two of @AuManufacturing’s Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management series, Rana Gupta looks at three risks we face, as well as three identity and access management measures to adopt.