NY government joins battery CRC, commits $500,000 in support
The Northern Territory has joined the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) and will contribute $500,000 to its research program over four years.
Marketing for manufacturers: Keeping in touch during a pandemic
In the middle of week two of our Marketing for manufacturers series, Jack Mallen-Cooper explains some of the dos and don’ts of Covid-19-era communications.
Brickworks to acquire Illinois Brick Company for $70 million, expand reach into US market
Brickworks has announced a binding agreement to acquire parts of Southfield Corporation, including Illinois Brick Company, which will increase the Australian company’s distribution network by 17 stores in the United States’ Midwest region.
Use federal procurement to build rebuild local supply chains: AWU
The Australian Workers Union has urged the federal government to consider purchasing decisions in strengthening industrial capacity.
Marketing for manufacturers — Discover your value and communicate it
In this edition of our Marketing for manufacturers series, Vanessa Katsanevakis discusses getting to know your brand, building on it, and the benefits that can follow.
Grant programs assisting equipment, tender writing launched for Tasmanian manufacturers
The Tasmanian government has launched grant programs providing funding for capital equipment purchases and tender writing. In an announcement on Monday, manufacturing minister Jeremy Rockliff said that the Advanced Manufacturing Accelerating Growth Grants program, budgeted at $ 3 million, would provide matched funding of between $10,000 and $100,000 for new equipment. There would be four…
Manufacturing growth continues, despite lockdowns
Manufacturing has proven resilient in July despite lockdowns around the country, with a tenth straight month of expansion, according to the most recent Performance of Manufacturing Index results.
A COVID ‘ring of steel’ around Sydney would play havoc with Australia’s supply chains
By Flavio Romero Macau, Edith Cowan University If a “ring of steel” was actually placed around Sydney, as suggested by Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, the rest of Australia would suffer in ways that aren’t immediately apparent. Completely sealing a city or a region is not unprecedented. It happened last year in China, India, Italy and…
USQ researcher earns grant to develop personal heat management materials
Work on wearable heat-regulating materials led by a University of Southern Queensland engineering researcher received an ARC Linkage Projects grant of $428,541 on Thursday.
Chemical engineers look to biomanufacturing using waste products
Monash University researchers and others are investigating the potential for biomanufacturing using inputs such as greenhouse gases instead of sugar-based substances to create high-value chemical products. Monash chemical engineering PhD researcher Wei Jiang — currently on sabbatical at Imperial College London — is lead author on a new paper in Nature Chemical Biology on the…